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Sarah Shachat

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Sarah Shachat is a writer from New Orleans, now living in New York City. She is the Craft Editor at IndieWire, where she looks at the artistic choices behind building great television series and films. She also helps produce and host the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, along with other special projects focused on filmmaking.

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How Playful Camera Techniques in ‘Hedda’ Keep Pace with Tessa Thompson

"Hedda" uses a tool called the Cinefade to shine chaos on its main character in Nia DaCosta's Henrik Ibsen revamp.

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Features

The 13 Best Horror Films for Horror Wimps on Halloween Night

From the original "Dracula" to "Companion," a list of 13 horror films that are perfect for people who don't really like horror.

TRAIN DREAMS, Felicity Jones, 2025. © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection

Exclusive

Bryce Dessner’s ‘Train Dreams’ Score Crafts ‘A Great Mystery’ Outside Time — Listen

Composer Bryce Dessner tells IndieWire about why his latest collaboration with filmmakers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar needed to simmer and crackle with the history of American Folk.

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Filmmaker Toolkit

‘The Lesbian Drama’s Happening Somewhere’ — Nia DaCosta on Turning ‘Hedda’ Into a Party

Writer and director Nia DaCosta tells IndieWire about making her adaptation of Hedda Gabler true to real life, and true to her.

Features

How I Shot That: Camera Survey of 45 of the Top Fall 2025 Films

Cinematographers share the camera, lenses, and looks they used to make their 2025 features.

FX's The Lowdown -- "Old Indian Trick" Episode 6 -- Pictured: (l-r) Siena East as Deidre, Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon. CR: Shane Brown/FX

Filmmaker Toolkit

Music, and Tulsa, Inspired Sterlin Harjo’s Writing Process for ‘The Lowdown’

Showrunner Sterlin Harjo tells IndieWire about the importance of Tulsa to his story and music to his storytelling.

THE MASTERMIND, Josh O'Connor, 2025. © MUBI /Courtesy Everett Collection

Filmmaker Toolkit

How ‘The Mastermind’ Found 1970s New England in Ohio

Director Kelly Reichardt tells IndieWire about sending Josh O'Connor's art thief through the haze of the 1970s.

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Documentary Now!

The Onion Is Making Mockumentaries for Real Americans with ‘Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile’

Onion CEO Ben Collins and CMO Leila Brillson tell IndieWire about its "cinematic night of film at the movies" for the premiere of "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile."

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Filmmaker Toolkit

Indy the Dog Is the Star of ‘Good Boy,’ and His Most Important Co-Stars Aren’t Even Human

Director Ben Leonberg tells IndieWire about the ingredients to making a dog-centric horror film, from The Kuleshov Effect to a Celloscillator.

FX's The Lowdown -- "Pilot" Episode 1 -- Pictured: (l-r) Michael Hitchcock as Ray, Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon. CR: Shane Brown/FX

TV Noir

Why It Was Important to Beat the Sh*t Out of Ethan Hawke in ‘The Lowdown’

Sterlin Harjo, showrunner and director of the new FX series "The Lowdown," tells IndieWire about transposing the series' film noir influences onto Tulsa, Oklahoma.