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Amanda Kramer is another writer/director whose films have shown at festivals around the world. Her latest film, Please Baby Please, starring Harry Melling, Andrea Riseborough and Demi Moore, premieres at the <a href="https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2022/films/please-baby-please" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Film Festival Rotterdam</a> on January 26, 2022. Her previous features include Ladyworld and Paris Window. She is a film radical and stands for the liberation of all artists. Learn more at her <a href="https://www.afilmbyamandakramer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.

Amanda Kramer

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

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Harry Melling is a British screen and stage actor who has emerged as one of the most acclaimed and sought-after actors of his generation. He can currently be seen in Joel Coen&#8217;s The Tragedy of Macbeth, opposite Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, and previously featured in Joel and Ethan Coen’s anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. He co-starred with Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough and Bill Skarsgard in Antonio Campos’ Southern Gothic thriller The Devil All the Time, was part of an all-star cast including Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson in James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, and played chess grandmaster Harry Beltik in the miniseries sensation The Queen’s Gambit. Melling also stars in Netflix’s global hit The Old Guard opposite Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthias Schoenaerts and will next be seen in Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please, which also stars Andrea Riseborough. Melling’s breakthrough role was playing Dudley Dursley across five films in the Harry Potter film franchise. (Photo by Wolf Marloh.)

Harry Melling

Podcast

Harry Melling Talks with Amanda Kramer on the Talkhouse Podcast

Hrishikesh Hirway Talks with Jay Som on the Talkhouse Podcast

Lex Luger Talks with Michael Vincent Waller on the Talkhouse Podcast

Matt Berninger is the frontman of the National. He formed El Vy in 2014 with Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls and released the album Return to the Moon in November 2015.

Matt Berninger

Revisited: Matt Berninger Talks with Aimee Mann on the Talkhouse Podcast

Memphis, Tennessee’s Julien Baker released her sophomore record, Turn Out The Lights, via Matador Records in 2017. Follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/julienrbaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/julienrbaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
(photo credit: Nolan Knight)

Julien Baker

Music

Aaron Dessner Talks with Julien Baker on the Talkhouse Podcast

Steve Earle is a rock/country/folk singer-songwriter. His latest album, Steve Earle &amp; The Dukes&#8216; GUY, was released March 2019.
(Photo Credit: Tom Bejgrowicz)

Steve Earle

Steve Earle Talks with Jay Farrar on the Talkhouse Podcast

Jeff Tweedy Talks with Mountain Man on the Talkhouse Podcast

Revisited: Joe Talbot (IDLES) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Bush Tetras Talk with Thurston Moore and Jim Jarmusch on the Talkhouse Podcast

Rosario Dawson is an artist, designer and activist. She made her feature film debut at the age of 15 in the controversial Kids, followed by Spike Lee’s He Got Game and The 25th Hour. She’s since starred in a range of films including Alexander, Rent, Clerks Ii, Top Five, Trance, Unstoppable and Men in Black II, as well as the Sin City franchise. On the small screen, Dawson starred as Allegra Dill in USA’s Briarpatch and as Claire Temple in Netflix’s Marvel comic book series Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and The Defenders. She can currently be seen in the Hulu limited series Dopesick. Rosario has produced several passion projects such as Talia Lugacy’s features Descent and This Is Not a War Story, and The Need To Grow, which highlights innovators healing our broken food systems and the need for soil regeneration to capture carbon and reverse climate change. Recently, Rosario directed her first short film, Boundless, for the Power/On Series. In 2013, Rosario founded Studio 189 with Abrima Erwiah, a fashion and media lifestyle brand made in Africa that produces African and African-inspired content and clothing. She is extremely passionate about helping empower LatinX millennials to vote and lead so in 2004, she co-founded Voto Latino. The organization has registered over one million people and was one of the co-founders of National Voter Registration Day. In 2011, Rosario was honored by Barack Obama with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for her valuable contributions to the community.

Rosario Dawson

Talia Lugacy is a New York City-based writer, director, actress and teacher. Her second feature, <a href="http://www.thisisnotawarstory.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Is Not a War Story</a>, about a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York who face their PTSD through art and community, is now playing on the festival circuit. It will screen next in narrative competition at the <a href="https://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woods Hole Film Festival</a>, between July 31  and August 7; tickets go on sale July 1. Lugacy made her feature debut as writer-director in 2007 with the New York Times Critics&#8217; Pick Descent, starring Rosario Dawson. A graduate of NYU&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts and member of the Actors Studio Directors Unit, she has taught at the School of Visual Arts and is now a faculty member at the New School.

Talia Lugacy

Rosario Dawson Talks with Talia Lugacy on the Talkhouse Podcast

Nick Lowe Talks with Matthew Houck (Phosphorescent) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Drive-By Truckers have always been outspoken, telling a distinctly American story via craft, character and concept, all backed by sonic ambition and social conscience. Having reached their 20th anniversary this year, singer/songwriter/guitarists Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood have long held a progressive fire in their belly but with 2016&#8217;s AMERICAN BAND, they have made the most explicitly political album in their extraordinary canon.