Every independent film is just, you know, one fire after another that you keep putting out,

and you're barely holding on the entire time.

But it, you finally get there. Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In today's episode, tensions run high as the city attempts to desegregate its schools in director

Daniel Adams' historical drama,

The Walk. The film weaves together three story threads as an Irish cop, his bigoted 17-year-old

daughter, and a young African-American student and her father, are caught up in the turbulent

court-ordered forced integration of the Boston school system in 1974.

In addition to The Walk, Mr. Adams' directorial credits include the feature films in L.A. Minute,

the lightkeepers, the Golden Boys, Primary Motive, and A Fool in His Money.

Following a recent screening of the film

at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,

Mr. Adams shares insight into the making of the walk

with fellow director Alejandro Bruyis.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you for coming and thank you for having me here. It's my second time watching the movie.

And as we were talking earlier, of course, you had to pick a Cuban for a movie about this particular moment in a U.S. history that I

knew nothing about. That was very, I mean, I was, I had no clue. I was speechless. I couldn't

believe in. Well, you're a great filmmaker, though. I guess I could. But so it was, it was really interesting for me to watch.

And I want to ask you first, where, when did you come up with this idea?

Was it something that had been in your head since that moment?

And why now?

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