How We Film

About How We Film

I’ve made mistakes and felt lost on my journey to making documentaries, wishing someone had guided me. This podcast is my way of sharing lessons I’ve learned about documentary filmmaking and storytelling. Along the way, I interview Oscar, Emmy, and BAFTA nominees and winners to learn from the best. I hope all of this will help you in your filmmaking career.

Publisher

Giosuè Petrone

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2025

Latest episode

30 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jun 2025

   Stop Using Music to Fix Your Film

   Emmy-winning editor Sam Billinge explains why filmmakers should avoid using music to compensate for weak storytelling, focusing instead on crafting strong narratives and emotional pacing in this interview.

2. 

   23 Jun 2025

   How Do You Know If Your Story Is Actually Good?

   Emmy-winning editor Sam Billinge reveals the essential elements that make a story compelling and explains how filmmakers can avoid common pitfalls in narrative structure during an interview.

3. 

   16 Jun 2025

   Netflix’s Sam Billinge: Edit Footage for a Killer Story

   Emmy-winning editor Sam Billinge reveals how he crafts compelling stories from hours of footage by defining the narrative early and ruthlessly cutting irrelevant clips in this interview.

Who has been a guest on How We Film

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sam Billinge
• Enikő Edelsbrunner
• Eniko Edelsbrunner
• Enikő PhD

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

76,393

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

0