If you love to listen to filmmakers and industry men and women discuss their trade, providing an insider’s voice on the business trends and economic upticks of the motion picture industry, then chances are you attended the just-wrapped 2014 Filmmaker Conference at Independent Film Week! And if you’re on a film panel/discussion kick and find yourself craving more, get comfortable for a few hours.

We searched the web to gather some of the most interesting and high profile film-related discussions that took place in North America this month. Some are from the recently wrapped Toronto International Film Festival, the “just about to open” New York Film Festival, the Film Society’s John Waters retrospective, and David Poland’s always addictive DP/30 series. Enjoy!

Xavier Dolan discusses his film career and his latest feature Mommy:

Director Lynn Shelton (Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister) dives into Laggies, her soon-to-be-released film, with star Sam Rockwell:

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi reflect on an ever-changing New York while promoting their new documentary The 50 Year Argument (which will play at the New York Film Festival this weekend):

Joshua Oppenheimer talks about The Look of Silence (also playing at the New York Film Festival), a companion piece to his Oscar-nominated doc The Act of Killing:

Josh and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) spill the beans on Heaven Knows What (screening at the New York Film Festival) with NYFF Director of Programming, Kent Jones:

The legendary John Waters speaks with film critic J. Hoberman about his illustrious career:

John Waters goes into even further hilarious detail about his filmmography and memorable on-set stories:

Bob Berney of Picturehouse gives a Keynote address on the state of distribution at the Toronto International Film Festival:

Interested in the ins-and-outs, success rates and “behind closed doors” mysteries of day-and-date distribution? This panel gathers some of the top minds in the field to give us the VOD goods: