Different as their approaches to cinema and storytelling may be, Eliza Hittman ("Never Rarely Sometimes Always") and Ira Sachs ("Passages") both share the same penchant for raw, visceral works that aren’t afraid to follow characters as they wrestle with their passions and desires. Which of course requires both to first establish a sense of trust with their cast and crew, so as to understand their collaborators’ boundaries and work within them, without getting in the way or jeopardising the improvisational nature of their performers. In this candid conversation, you may join Hittman and Sachs in their excitement to share a stage together and discuss their ways of handling actors in sensitive moments and building a common language with them as collaborators on set.