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Toure Show

Tayarisha Poe — I Direct Movies

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Tayarisha Poe is the director of Selah And The Spades (on Amazon) which is a brilliant film about cliques in a private school and the badass Black girl who runs the whole social ecosystem. When you see it you know you’re looking at the debut film of a director who’s going to be making interesting and important films for a while. I wanted to talk to Tayarisha about how to make films, how she developed as a filmmaker, and what she thinks about modern film in general. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 131 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.9

God I want to make a movie, I want to be like her.

0:52.8

Oh, good.

0:53.7

Talk to her.

0:54.3

How do you make a movie?

0:56.0

Read a lot of books, read a lot of novels, read like an obsessive amount.

1:01.4

Reading fiction in particular is as important as watching movies.

1:05.0

I think that it's just about getting used to having other people's voices in your head

1:10.0

and getting comfortable with that. And I think that it's right and true to just copy other people.

1:18.0

My first short film was basically just a rip off of that movie brick in 10 minutes and I think that I learned a lot from doing

1:25.9

stuff like that just like copying and figuring out how what my version of this

1:32.1

person is because that I think is also a part of

1:35.1

writing which is just imitating other people's forms of speech. It takes a lot to

1:41.1

be a director you have to have a photographer's eye, a writer's ability to tell

1:45.6

stories. You've got to be able to work with actors and lighting people and money focused producers.

1:52.0

And you have to have a perspective on film and film history so much

1:56.6

We've had several directors on the show from Spike Lee to Boots Riley to Reggie Hudlin and and this week, this week I'm thrilled to introduce you to a name.

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