HeyJaredThe Sandbox: A See-Saw Podcast On Creativity
A new podcast from See-Saw Films and hosted by Co-Founder/CEO Emile Sherman, The Sandbox draws on See-Saw’s 16 year history as an independent production company where it has made some of the most impactful creative productions of the moment.
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Fighting the "No's" - The Art of Producing with Liz Watts (opens the original)
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Today we sit down with Liz Watts, Head of Film and Television, Australia at See-Saw Films. Liz is one of Australia's most successful producers, with credits including Animal Kingdom and The King . Since joining See-Saw, she's executive produced Apple Cider Vinegar for Netflix, produced The Royal Hotel , and led us up a mountain with See-Saw's upcoming Apple Original film, Tenzing . We get into the art of producing — a job that's a little hard to understand from the outside. We talk about the rel
How Movies Actually Get Cast (opens the original)
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BAFTA winning casting director Nicky Barrett returns for part two, pulling back the curtain on how movies actually get cast: where star power, financier lists, and directors who need "director-proof" actors collide with the search for something real. The conversation widens into acting styles across cultures, the messy politics of authenticity casting, and closes on a genuinely unresolved question: can an AI performance ever have charisma, or is that something only a human being pretending to be
What Makes A Great Actor with BAFTA Winning Casting Director Nikki Barrett (opens the original)
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"It's not who fits where — it's what is the world we're making." BAFTA award-winning casting director Nikki Barrett joins the show to talk about what makes a great actor, casting as world-building rather than list-filling: the difference between naturalism and truth on screen, why she's drawn to anthropological projects and non-actors, and how the best actors find the "safety to take risks.” This is Part 1 of our conversation with Nikki Barrett. Part 2 will be released next week. Host: Emile She
Joe Locke Takes Us Behind the Scenes on Heartstopper (opens the original)
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Joe Locke shot to fame playing Charlie Spring in See-Saw's beloved coming-of-age series Heartstopper — and now, with the release of Heartstopper Forever, that story comes to a close. Host Emile Sherman is joined by See-Saw co-founder Iain Canning to sit down with Joe and look back on the whole journey: what it was like stepping onto set as a newcomer to acting, navigating a whirlwind rise to fame, and what it took to bring Nick and Charlie's story to its conclusion. They also dig into what the s
The Creative Process of An Oscar Winning Director - Jane Campion (opens the original)
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Part 2 of our conversation with Jane Campion. Jane has been nominated for five Oscars, winning Best Original Screenplay for The Piano and Best Director for the See-Saw production The Power of the Dog. But what we really wanted to dig into was how Jane actually makes things. Where do her stories come from? How does she develop a visual language for a film? What is her relationship to her own subconscious as a creative tool? We explore the space between instinct and craft, between preparation and
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