Jim Hemphill is an award-winning filmmaker and film historian who writes about filmmaking craft for IndieWire. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, American Cinematheque, and other festivals and venues, and his writing on cinema has appeared in American Cinematographer, Film Comment, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the book “The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Interviews With Episodic Television Directors,” and he has contributed scholarly audio commentaries to dozens of Blu-rays released by the British Film Institute, Kino Lorber, and other labels.