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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIn this episode of the No Film School Podcast, host GG Hawkins talks with writer-director Chandler Levack about making __I Like Movies__ , __Mile End Kicks__ , and __Roommates__ , and how Levack protects a specific filmmaking voice while moving between indie features and studio comedy.\n\nThey discuss the realities of Canadian film financing, directing with limited time and bigger resources, building cinematic worlds through research and memory, and why filmmakers have to keep making work instead of treating one movie as their only chance.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**In this episode, we****discuss:**\n\n  * How __I Like Movies__ helped open doors for __Mile End Kicks__\n  * Why __Mile End Kicks__ had to be shot in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood\n  * The overlap of finishing one film while prepping and shooting another\n  * What changed when Levack moved from indie filmmaking to a studio comedy\n  * How music journalism shaped Levack’s directing and world-building\n  * Why specificity in props, costumes, locations, and character details matters\n  * Navigating male-dominated creative spaces as a woman filmmaker\n  * The value and complications of film criticism\n  * Building a body of work through collaboration, experimentation, and persistence\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Guests:**\n\n  * Chandler Levack\n\n\n\n\n\n\n****\n\n****\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Subscribe to the No Film School Podcast on:**\n\n  * Apple Podcasts\n  * Spotify\n  * Google\n\n\n\nGet your question answered on the podcast by emailing podcast@nofilmschool.com\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n_Listen to more episodes of the No Film School podcast right here:_\n\nCheck out more of our NAB 2026 coverage!",
  "title": "How Specificity Makes Better Films: ‘Mile End Kicks’ and ‘I Like Movies’ Director Chandler Levack Explains"
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