Ep260 - Tiller Russell, Director ‘Silk Road’ & ‘Night Stalker - The Hunt for a Serial Killer’

Tiller Russell grew up spending time in courthouses, at the request from his lawyer father, which led him to a career in crime-related journalism. Thanks to a few chance encounters with Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), Russell decided to quit his job at the newspaper and get into filmmaking. In this interview, we hop back and fourth between Russell’s most recent projects, the mini-series documentary Night Stalker, for Netflix, and the fictional retelling of Silk Road, which stars Nick Robinson, Jennifer Yun, and Jason Clarke. Russell discusses how he chose to make Night Stalker as a documentary versus Silk Road as a film, what it means to have a nose for stories, how he ended up working on The Deadliest Catch, what it’s like to write for Dick Wolf, and how to present a story to an audience with no preconceived judgements. If it’s your first time listening, make sure to subscribe and visit my new website for information on the YouTube channel, the blog, this podcast, and my new book ‘Ink by the Barrel’ which takes advice from these 200+ interviews at the link below… Join the email list here: www.brockswinson.com You can also now find us on Instagram: @CreativePrinciples —
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