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Sophia Dunn-Walker is a French-American director and co-founder of Emmy-winning ENKIDU International Productions. Her feature documentary on the autism spectrum is currently in post-production, following a 2026 screening of its short version at the American Pavilion at Cannes. She has collaborated with Pussy Riot on several projects, and her visual approach is rooted in fine art and fashion photography, including early work assisting Annie Leibovitz and legally blind photographer Kurt Weston. Dunn-Walker has cone dystrophy, which affects color perception and visual acuity and has become an integral part of how she approaches image-making. She is also an advocate for disability representation in the arts. (Photo by BK Studios.)

Sophia Dunn-Walker

Film

The Camera is a Womb

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Semiratruth is constantly in motion. The Brooklyn-based, Chicago-born electronic artist travels from stage to stage, bouncing between divergent underground music scenes from the US to Guatemala to The Netherlands, synths and sampler in hand like a teleportation device. Onstage they intuitively conduct the energy in the room, seemingly syncing the audience&#8217;s collective heart rate to a universal metronome. Wielding a table of electronics, they casually tap out sonic portals to another world. Their latest record, S!M, is out now on Sooper Records.

Semiratruth

Music

Mood Board: Semiratruth’s S!M

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Anna St. Louis is a Missouri-born singer-songwriter, now based in LA.

Anna St. Louis

Based in New York’s Catskill Mountains, Biita Houdei makes folk music that feels both earthy and transportive, blending psychedelic textures with intimate reflections on love, heritage, chance, and the natural world. On This Bed Was Made For Me, her first release under a familial gifted name that means “unique” in Farsi, those qualities come into sharp focus. This Bed Was Made For Me is out now on Father/Daughter Records.

Biita Houdei

Biita Houdei and Anna St. Louis Have I-70 Series Beef

Applied Communications is the experimental, glitch-pop musical alias of Washington, D.C. artist Max Wood.

Applied Communications

Hey, Is This Applied Communications? 

Travis Gutiérrez Senger is a Mexican American director, writer and producer based in Los Angeles. His recent project, <a href="https://ascofilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASCO: Without Permission</a>, a genre-defying film about the Chicano, avant-garde art group ASCO, premiered at SXSW 2025 and is out now on PBS. The film is executive produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. The project has received support from the Ford Foundation, Film Independent, the Dolby Creator Lab and was recently given the Cinema Tropical Award for Best U.S. Latinx Film. His prior narrative and documentary projects, Desert Cathedral, White Lines and the Fever, along with a number of shorts, have won top prizes at festivals such as Tribeca, SXSW, and SIFF. He founded ANM Films, a premium film and TV company, focused on bold, progressive stories.

Travis Gutiérrez Senger

Notes on a Dedication

Clark Duke is an actor, writer and director best known for Clark and Michael, The Offce, Sex Drive, Kick-Ass and Hot Tub Time Machine. Originally from Arkansas, Clark attended film school at Loyola Marymount University. His thesis film was the pilot for Clark and Michael. Clark was most recently seen alongside Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth and John Malkovich in his feature directorial debut, Arkansas. Clark also produced and co-wrote the film, an adaptation of John Brandon’s acclaimed novel. Stranglehold, Clark’s sophomore feature as a writer, producer, and director, is out now, a comedy thriller starring Ashley Benson, Jake Lacy, Justin Long, Chandler Duke, and Ron Perlman. His upcoming third feature is an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel You Don’t Love Me Yet. (Photo by Steven Meiers Dominguez.)

Clark Duke

Three Great Things: Clark Duke

Melody C. Roscher’s debut feature film as a writer and director, <a href="https://www.futureoffilmisfemale.com/bird-in-hand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bird in Hand</a>, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in the U.S. Competition category and is out now in theaters. The film is preceded by a companion short film she wrote and directed, White Wedding, that premiered at 2021’s Sundance Film Festival, and played in dozens of festivals around the world. Her directing and writing work comes off years of producing film, television and commercial work. Some notable works include Borderline Films Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, and Josh Mond’s works Christine; James White, Simon Killer, and Martha Marcy May Marlene. For these works she was nominated for two Independent Spirit awards including Best First Feature for James White, and Piaget Producer’s Award for Christine. Other cult favorites include Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Catherine, starring Jenny Slate, and Robin Comisar’s Great Choice. Melody hails from both New York City, and Richmond, Virginia where she now resides. She’s a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Melody C. Roscher

The Genetics of a Film

Comedy trailblazer and actor Dane Cook is currently the subject of the new documentary <a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/funny-money-the-dane-cook-story/umc.cmc.7bpcjxhy42pl3uekhh3fpdxkq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story</a>, which is now on digital. He has released a number of record-breaking comedy specials including Vicious Circle, Isolated Incident, Harmful if Swallowed, Retaliation, Tourgasm and Rough Around the Edges: Live from Madison Square Garden. In addition to stand-up comedy, he is known for his various acting roles in movies such as Mr. Brooks, My Best Friend’s Girl, Dan in Real Life, Employee of the Month, Good Luck Chuck, Waiting… and more. He was the second comedian to ever sell out multiple shows at Madison Square Garden and is about to announce a massive 2027 tour which can be found on DaneCook.com. Cook, originally from Arlington, Massachusetts, currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Kelsi Taylor, and their two dogs, Chopper and Ripley.

Dane Cook

Three Great Things: Dane Cook

Song of Rimbaud

Warped depravity in pop bubblegum packaging, Emma Higgins is a writer and director interested in telling stories she hasn’t seen before through a genre lens. Emma’s debut feature as writer-director, <a href="https://fela.tv/work/special-projects/sweetness-first-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweetness</a>, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to rave reviews and is out now in theaters. A coming-of-age story for the digital age exploring the line between innocent fandom and twisted obsession, it stars Kate Hallett and Herman Tømmeraas. A self-taught filmmaker, Emma established herself directing commercials and music videos, helming Jessie Reyez&#8217;s music video “No One’s in the Room,” which earned the esteemed Video of the Year win at the 2021 Juno Awards. Emma currently lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys living amongst the coyotes and nurturing the filmmaking community.

Emma Higgins

Sinking into Sweet Uncertainty – Otherwise Known as Making a Movie

Writer-director Carmen Emmi’s award-winning debut feature,<a href="https://www.magpictures.com/plainclothes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Plainclothes</a>, starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and Amy Forsyth, premiered at Sundance in 2025, was released theatrically by Magnolia and is out now on digital. Set in 1997, the film follows a promising undercover officer assigned to entrap gay men, who defies professional orders when he falls in love with one of his targets. Emmi is a filmmaker with deep roots in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up in a family of farmers. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Carmen began his career as an independent Director of Photography, contributing to a range of projects, including short films, commercials, and feature-length productions. (Photo by Lindsy Avritch.)

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