Award season is in full swing. And we here at Film Independent have been busy! Our Film Independent Presents calendar is full of exciting films with some of the most talented people in independent film. Of course as a member, you can see these screenings for free, and watch the Q&As in person, but as a faithful blog reader, you can have the second best thing: YouTube videos! On our YouTube channel (don’t forget to like and subscribe), we share all the latest and greatest Q&As from our programing.  You get to see how these films are made from the people who made them. This month, we have new films from Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Gladstone, Elisabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan and more!

Here are just a few of the most recent Q&As from our Film Independent Presents screenings.

Watch as Elizabeth Olsen, Jovan Adepo and director Azelel Jacobs talk about creating an intimate set to explore family dynamics in the new Netflix film His Three Daughters. The star-studded film lets the dialogue shine, and the team talks about how finding the rhythm of it was crucial to the success of the film.

September 5 sadly couldn’t be more timely. Though they didn’t plan it at the time, the Peter Sarsgaard thriller about the Israeli hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds itself dealing with questions that are all too familiar today. Sarsgaard and producer John Palmer talk about how violence is portrayed, and what responsibilities the media has when covering it.

Nickel Boys is an ambitious film. Not only is it adapting a historically-detailed Pulitzer Prize winning novel, but it’s doing it in a formally unique way. With the majority of the film being shot in first person POV, the film has to overcome the issue of feeling an actors presence without always seeing their face. Director RaMell Ross, and actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson talk about the unique process and how the emotion came through while telling this heart-wrenching story.

For writer/director Erica Tremblay, authenticity was the guiding light while creating Fancy Dance. She and actors Lily Gladstone and Isabel Leroy-Olson talk about how the texture of life on reservation, and in the justice system, made the film all the more emotionally true too.

A Different Man asks some thorny questions. If you could change who you are, would it actually make things better, and why are we seeking to change them. Director Aaron Schimberg and actors Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson talk about subverting expectations and hopefully changing perceptions of disfigurement and disability in their film.