Joe Swanberg: The Sun Never Sets, Reinventing Indie Film & Making Movies Without Permission

<p>Joe Swanberg returns to In the Room with a lot to catch up on.</p><p>As THE SUN NEVER SETS arrives in theaters September 4, Joe takes us inside his new film starring Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson and Cory Michael Smith, including shooting on 35mm in Alaska, building scenes from real relationships and making a movie while parts of the emotional story were still unfolding in his own life.</p><p>But we also go deep into the realities of independent filmmaking.</p><p>Joe explains why he decided to produce five horror features back-to-back like a season of television, how recurring crews, actors and resources allowed them to rethink the traditional indie production model, and what happened when the financing disappeared before the movies were finished.</p><p>He talks candidly about the stress of unfinished films, collaborators waiting to be paid, distribution money being used to cover finishing costs and the behind-the-scenes financial reality audiences rarely see.</p><p>We also get into the young filmmakers who reignited his excitement for filmmaking, why a new generation is rediscovering his earliest microbudget work, making movies without waiting for permission, directing actors, improvisation, shooting on film, theatrical distribution, relationship movies, comedy and where independent cinema might be heading next.</p><p>A conversation about making the work, surviving the work, and finding a reason to keep doing it.</p>