Teenage Wasteland with Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss and Alice Gu (Ep. 621)

Podcast: The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast · Directors Guild of America

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss discuss their new film, Teenage Wasteland, with fellow Director Alice Gu in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, they discuss poring through 500 hours of archival footage to find the film’s heart, recreating the school’s classroom from the 1990s to make a “portal of recollection”, and taking consideration into finding era-appropriate music for the film. Screened as part of the DGA’s Documentary Series, the film follows a group of 1990s teenagers who made a student documentary about a mysterious brown muck surfacing at the loc...