Screen Players Club

Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA winning producer John Battsek is responsible for some of the most acclaimed documentaries in contemporary cinema.  He joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod for a refreshingly open and honest conversation about the making of Netflix mega-hit series: KYLIE, which has been widely praised as a raw, human and profoundly moving look at pop royalty. John talks candidly about what finally m...

Welcome to Screen Players Club with one of Britain’s most acclaimed producers -  Academy Award nominated and BAFTA winner - Dame Pippa Harris who joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod from the set of the new Beatles movies to discuss The Magic Far Away Tree.   Find out about Pippa’s extraordinary fourteen year battle to bring this instant children’s classic to the big screen.  Pippa shares how the creati...

Welcome to Screen Players Club with two of Britain’s exciting new talents - the properly brilliant writer/director Charlotte Regan (Scrapper) and rising star, the mesmerising Emma Laird (The Brutalist) who join Charlotte Bogard Macleod to discuss their eight-part BBC drama Mint. We can’t wait for you to hear this episode, as Charlotte divulges her writing secrets and shares her top tips for not ge...

Welcome to Screen Players Club with BAFTA nominated artist-directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard discussing Broken English - their docu-portrait about the singer songwriter and icon Marianne Faithfull.   Don’t miss Iain and Jane divulging why and how they created a new documentary format to capture Marianne’s exuberant creative spirit. They discuss why they cast Tilda Swinton and George MacKay a...

Welcome to Screen Players with award winning director Joachim Trier and his co-writing partner Eskil Vogt, here to discuss the process of bringing their movie "Sentimental Value" to the big screen. Joachim and Eskil share the secrets of their writing technique, explain how they found the movie’s cinematic through-line and reveal their moving ritual that sends their film into the world.   Joachim r...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar and BAFTA winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz who is responsible for some of the most nuanced, potent and beautiful films in contemporary cinema. In this episode she joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios for an open, vulnerable and fiercely honest conversation about the movie “She Said.” Rebecca shares insights about how she went a...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with filmmakers Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter discussing their documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. We’re also joined by the subjects of the film - writer Maggie Barrett and her husband, the legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Wow! This documentary is good. It’s better than good. It’s an intimate exploration of the marriage of two cha...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Sir Roger Deakins and his creative partner James Ellis Deakins, who join Charlotte Bogard Macleod to discuss the Coen Brother’s masterpiece “The Man Who Wasn’t There.” Don’t miss hearing about the hilarious pranks the Coen Brothers played on set, and how Roger and Ethan Coen developed an almost telepathic un...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar nominated and Emmy Award winning screenwriter Hossein Amini talking to Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios about the process of adapting James Sallis’ lyrical novel Drive for the big screen. Don’t miss hearing how Hossein plans his thrilling car chase sequences, and his jaw dropping confessions about his own driving skills. And find out wh...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with legendary documentary maker Nick Broomfield and singer-songwriter and Bastille frontman Dan Smith, who join Charlotte Bogard Macleod to discuss Nick’s film Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love. Discover how this story of the muse who inspired a songwriter came to inspire Dan’s own songwriting. Don’t miss Nick’s extraordinary revelation that Leonard Cohen’s s...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with one of Britain’s best-loved and most acclaimed producers, Tessa Ross CBE, joining Charlotte Bogard Macleod at Soho Square Studios to discuss the BAFTA and Oscar winning masterpiece Conclave. Don’t miss Tessa sharing the secret of how she got her hands on early chapters of Robert Harris’s novel, and then persuaded him to let her have the rights to the book....

Welcome to the very first episode of Screen Players Film Club! We’re kicking off the series with award-winning artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson, who joins Charlotte Bogard Macleod live from The Cinema in Selfridges to discuss her poignant debut feature Nowhere Boy, about the early life of John Lennon. Don’t miss Sam sharing what happened when Paul McCartney called her out of the blue with f...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club with Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy joining Charlotte Bogard Macleod live in The Cinema in The Arches to discuss his smash-hit Slumdog Millionaire.  Don’t miss Simon’s unique insights on how to handle a multi-strand, non-linear narrative without confusing the audience. Hear how the whole project was nearly consigned to the DVD bin, before going on to w...

Welcome to Screen Players Film Club. In each episode a filmmaker, writer, producer or actor talks to host Charlotte Bogard Macleod about the creative journey behind one of their best-loved movies. We get into it all - the behind the scenes anecdotes and the never-before-told secrets - before moving onto more profound conversations about what it means to be a human navigating through life, art and...