Available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your pods. The Directors UK Podcast allows the listener to attend our member events with top directors. Hear what directors have to say when they speak to a room of their peers, and gain exclusive insight into their creative process. Directors UK is the professional association for UK screen directors. With over 8,500 members, we represent directors’ rights and concerns, promote excellence in the craft of direction and champion change to the current landscape to create an equal opportunity industry for all.
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Paul Thomas Anderson in conversation on One Battle After Another
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The Territory: Alex Pritz in conversation with Jenny Ash
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Causeway: Lila Neugebauer in conversation with Philippa Lowthorpe
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: Rian Johnson in conversation with Edgar Wright
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The White Tiger: Ramin Bahrani in conversation with Gurinder Chadha
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I Care A Lot - J Blakeson in conversation with Jessica Hobbs
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: George C. Wolfe in conversation with Stephen Daldry
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Another Round: Thomas Vinterberg in conversation with Paolo Sorrentino
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Promising Young Woman: Emerald Fennell in conversation with Richard Curtis
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His House: Remi Weekes in conversation with Anna Bogutskaya
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Judas and the Black Messiah: Shaka King in conversation with Barry Jenkins
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News of the World: Paul Greengrass in conversation with Mike Leigh
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Saint Maud: Rose Glass in conversation with Edgar Wright
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PODCAST: The Lighthouse Q&A with Robert Eggers
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