BENICIO DEL TORO - Actor

SEASON 2 - EPISODE 200 Tana Dubbe - Key Grip In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with key grip Tana Dubbe (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, A STAR IS BORN, IRON MAN). Throughout the episode, Tana illuminates the responsibilities of the lesser publicized position, and s ...  Show more

SEASON 2 - EPISODE 199 Scott Frank - Writer / Director In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with writer and director Scott Frank (DEPT. Q, THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT, LOGAN). Scott has worked across film and television over the course of his career, and as fans of his la ...  Show more

After an unscheduled week break (sorry!), the Film Stories podcast returns with the stories of two superb modern fantasy films. Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning The Shape Of Water owes a debt to a 1950s horror, and an original idea that came to someone in their teenage years. W ...  Show more

In this empowering episode of the Filmmaking Stuff podcast, seasoned filmmaker Tom Malloy shares his experience over two decades ago when his script was held hostage by an unscrupulous producer. He details the deception, the broken promises, and the eventual tough decision that s ...  Show more

"From Robert De Niro, I learned not to force anything. Not to force your idea of how something should be and then go from there. Not, 'Oh, this should be funny,' or 'Oh, I'm going make you cry.' That's the wrong thing. You just need to think about the th ...

With the film Ferrari, cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, ASC has now had the opportunity to work with two huge directors: Michael Mann and David Fincher. In 2021, Erik won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Mank, directed by Fincher. He finds Fincher to be very metho ...  Show more