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Guillermo Del Toro & Jane Campion on Netflix and Directing Genre | Directors on Directors

Del Toro and Campion discuss how directing for Netflix changes the job, and how genre filmmaking gets treated differently than prestige drama. They compare experiences working within a studio's creative constraints.

Variety · 33 min · Advanced · DIR · Directing · 2022

What you take away

Understand how platform and genre expectations shape a director's choices.

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