From Boots Riley to Debra Granik: 5 Directors To Remember in Awards Season

This week on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, we sat down with directors who made smaller films that don’t have big awards campaigns but whose work should be remembered among the year’s best films.Here’s a taste of the wisdom and insight each director shared about their filmmaking process.Subscribe via Apple Podcasts to the Filmmaker Toolkit PodcastLynne Ramsay On Bouncing BackIn the winter of 2013-14, Lynne Ramsay disappeared to the Greek Island of Santorini to seek refuge after the traumatic experience of having to quit “Jane Got a Gun” right as production began, having concluded the producers would never let her make her version of the film she’d worked on for years.“I found it quite peaceful and I could get quite focused, perhaps because I thought I was going to make a film and I didn’t and that was really painful,” said Ramsay.

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