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Jane Weinstock is a director and writer based in New York City. Her most recent film, <a href="https://www.threebirthdays.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Three Birthdays</a>, received the NYWIFT narrative director award at the Woodstock Film Festival and is out now in theaters. It also won the best feature director award at the LA Femme International Film Festival. In 2013 she directed The Moment, a psychological thriller starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alia Shawkat and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The film premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature directorial debut, Easy (2003), starring Marguerite Moreau, Brían F. O&#8217;Byrne, and Naveen Andrews, was an official selection at The Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Weinstock also co-directed Sigmund Freud’s Dora, a short film that showed at The Berlin International Film Festival and the Whitney Museum. She attended the Sundance Director’s Lab. In addition to directing, Weinstock has written on film, art, and feminism. She has a masters in Cinema Studies from NYU and a BA from Princeton.

Jane Weinstock

Film

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Award-winning filmmaker Jack Dunphy shares his struggles with addiction, mental illness, loss and just being a general f*ck-up. Each week, he welcomes an actor, writer, filmmaker, musician or comedian, some of whom Jack has fractured relationships with, to discuss their shared issues and make amends when possible.

Revelations with Jack Dunphy

Podcast

HOLIDAY CHECK-IN 2025

Tim Key is a comedian, poet, actor, and writer who co-wrote and stars in the new comedy <a href="https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ballad-of-wallis-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ballad of Wallis Island</a>, which is in select theaters from March 28 and everywhere from April 18. Key won the Perrier Award in 2009 and has since gone on to write and perform eight solo shows, including the smash hit, Mulberry. On screen, he is best known as Sidekick Simon in This Time with Alan Partridge, as well as The Double, Peep Show and The End of the F***ing World. Most recently, he was seen opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 and played Commissioner Harrold Scott alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They Run. His radio series Late Night Poetry with Tim Key has just been commissioned for a sixth season and Key also has written several successful poetry anthologies, including Chapters, He Used Thought as a Wife and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

Tim Key

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Billie Marten is a singer-songwriter from Yorkshire. Her latest record, Dog Eared, is out now on Fiction Records.
(Photo Credit: Katie Silvester)

Billie Marten

Music

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Haroula Rose is a filmmaker and performer from Chicago, now living in Los Angeles. In 2025, All Happy Families, her sophomore feature film as writer, director and producer, was released in theaters nationwide. The film was executive produced by Michael Shannon and stars Josh Radnor, Becky Ann Baker, Chandra Russell, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, David Pasquesi and Colleen Camp. Her debut feature as writer-director, Once Upon a River, an adaptation of the bestselling novel, won 19 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide. Haroula was selected to be part of Hello Sunshine’s short film series, for which she wrote and directed a romcom fable called Hound of Love. Other acclaimed short films and videos include As They Slept, Lost &amp; Found, Wedding Dress, No Love Song and Baby Crazy. Rose received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and attended USC&#8217;s MFA program. As a producer she has worked on Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, David Sington’s The Fear of Thirteen, Heaven Adores You, Permanent and Saint Frances. Rose has released three LPs as well as remixes, singles and EP’s with Thirty Tigers and Tone Tree Music. Her latest collaboration is a group of compositions with Oliver Hill, released on Ba Da Bing Records in early 2025.

Haroula Rose

Some Holiday Spirit: On Film and Chosen Families

Julia Marchese is a filmmaker, actor, podcaster, cinephile and film programmer living in Hollywood, California. Her first film was the award-winning documentary Out of Print, about the importance of revival cinema and 35 mm exhibition to culture, and she is currently the co-host of the popular horror podcast Horror Movie Survival Guide. She recently crowdfunded on <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-know-what-you-need-a-stephen-king-adaptation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieGoGo</a> for her forthcoming Dollar Baby short film I Know What You Need, based on Stephen King&#8217;s story of the same name from Night Shift. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @juliacmarchese.

Julia Marchese

The Mind-Crawling Horror of a Perpetual Christmas

Greta Morgan is a songwriter, storyteller, and multi-instrumentalist who began her career at age 16 and has performed worldwide since. Her first book, The Lost Voice, is out now on Harper One. She fronted Springtime Carnivore, Gold Motel, The Hush Sound, was a touring member of Vampire Weekend, and has performed with Jenny Lewis. She lives in the Hudson Valley where she has been known to watch golden leaves float downstream on creeks for hours and say that every meal is the best meal of her life.
(Photo credit: Lenae Day)

Greta Morgan

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