Podcast: The Process.Ink — Episode 5 with Joe Swanberg

Tom Benedek talks with writer-director of Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas.

Tom Benedek is my good friend and co-founder of Screenwriting Master Class. In fact, Tom is the very first screenwriter I met when I first broke into the business in 1987 (we had offices in the same building on the Universal Studios lot).

Tom has written over 40 projects with some of the top people in the movie and TV business including Robert Zemeckis, Lawrence Kasdan, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard Zanuck, David Brown, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harold Ramis, Lauren Schuler Donner and Richard Donner.

Recently Tom launched The Process.Ink, a podcast in which he talks creative process with writers, showrunners, directors, producers, actors, executives, agents, and managers.

In Episode 5, Tom talks with Chicago-based writer-director-producer Joe Swanberg about Swanberg’s new Netflix series ‘Easy’, improvisation on a movie set, why he prefers to make movies in Chicago, and describes a typical day on a Swanberg set.

You may listen to the hour-long conversation here.

For the Process.Ink iTunes site, go here.

Twitter: @tombenedek, @JoeSwanberg.