DiscoverThe Filmmakers Podcast'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.
'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.

'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.

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On this weeks episode we are joined by director and writer Baltasar Kormákur.


He talks to Dom Lenoir about going from indie films to studio films and back again with his latest film TOUCH.


Baltasar has made films such as Contraband (2012), 2 Guns (2013), Everest

(2015) and Beast (2022) and has worked with star-actors such as Mark

Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Jason Clarke and Idris Elba to name a few.


TOUCH is OUT NOW


WATCH our interview with Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-TU39BmwLI&t=167s.


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'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.

'TOUCH' & 'BEAST' director/writer Baltasar Kormákur on going from indie films to studio films and back again.

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