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Michael Koresky is a film critic and filmmaker, and editorial director at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. He has held staff editorial positions for Film at Lincoln Center and The Criterion Collection, where he continues to work as a freelance programmer. He has been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture” by Brooklyn Magazine. His book<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/films-of-endearment-michael-koresky?variant=39307419254818" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Films of Endearment: A Mother, a Son and the &#8217;80s Films That Defined Us</a> is out now through Hanover Square Press.

Michael Koresky

Film

Exclusive Book Extract: Home Movies

Jessica Watkins is a stand-up comedian, actress and producer born and raised in East Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles in 2005 and has been living and performing in New York City for over a decade. Her first film, <a href="https://www.specialishdoc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Watkins: SPECIALish</a>, is now available on-demand and on all digital platforms. (Photo by Jesse Paul.)

Jessica Watkins

Unscared

Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name, and is a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen with Adam Wiltzie. His latest record,<a href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/silfur-dustin-ohalloran-12303" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Silfur</a>, is out June 11 through Deutsche Grammophon. O’Halloran’s film career began with Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette, and since then he’s worked on multiple films, including Like Crazy, Breathe In, Puzzle and The Hate U Give. He won a 2015 Emmy Award for his main title theme to Transparent, and was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Critics Choice Award for his score to Lion (2016), written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). He also collaborated with Bertelmann on scores for A Christmas Carol, Ammonite and The Old Guard. O’Halloran lives in Los Angeles and Reykjavik.

Dustin O’Halloran

Three Great Things: Dustin O’Halloran

Morgan Ingari is a Brooklyn-based queer writer/director, originally from Boston. Her debut feature, <a href="https://www.milkwaterfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milkwater</a>, about a directionless twenty-something who rashly decides to become a surrogate and egg donor for an older gay man she meets in a bar, is out now on digital to rent or to buy. It stars Molly Bernard, Patrick Breen and Robin de Jesús. Morgan graduated from Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film &amp; Television in 2013 and served as head writer for a political satire site called Runt of the Web. She has directed over 30 pieces of short-form content, and a short she wrote in 2017 called Tell Me Twice played a multiple short film festivals.

Morgan Ingari

Queer Enough?

Anthony Giacchino is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. His new documentary, <a href="https://www.colettedoc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colette</a>, won Best Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Academy Awards, and tells a story about one of the last surviving members of the French Resistance. His previous film, The Giant’s Dream (Warner Bros.), is about the making of Academy Award-winning director Brad Bird’s first feature film, The Iron Giant. His first feature-length doc, The Camden 28, aired on the PBS series POV, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen. Giacchino is a former Fulbright Scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany.

Anthony Giacchino

Let’s Go to the Tape

Mena Suvari currently stars in the romantic drama Grace and Grit, starring Stuart Townsend and Frances Fisher, which is out now in theaters, on digital and on-demand through Quiver Distribution. Suvari made her film debut in Gregg Araki’s 1997 cult movie Nowhere, which was followed in 1999 by the back-to-back blockbuster successes of American Pie and American Beauty. Among her other notable film credits are Rob Reiner’s Rumor Has It, Tony Scott’s Domino, Amy Heckerling’s Loser and Jonas Åkerlund’s cult-classic Spun. On TV, she reteamed with American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball on his show Six Feet Under, played the Black Dahlia in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story and appeared on the hit show Chicago Fire. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA and is an active face of PETA and ardent supporter of animals.

Mena Suvari

Three Great Things: Mena Suvari

<div>Anna Roisman is a comedian, host, writer and actor in NYC. Anna is known for hosting <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hq-trivia/id1232278996" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hq-trivia/id1232278996&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181960000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH9YAQx744TYeWHz8yK0Wk_gzgKQQ">HQ Trivia</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTPd4Xj7Tw" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DknTPd4Xj7Tw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2eIGLjVqgZSoksxB4hnL7iax-eg">HQ Words</a> on the Emmy-Nominated app. She is a regular comedian on the Buzzfeed series, &#8220;Did You See This?&#8221; Anna’s work has been featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, New York TV Festival, Just For Laughs in Montreal, People magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Huffington Post, Funny Or Die, Elite Daily, and more. She is the creator and host of the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unemployed-with-anna-roisman/id1489650462" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unemployed-with-anna-roisman/id1489650462&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSiqdfisEICLEew_TJ5rJX2dl9og">Unemployed With Anna Roisman</a>, and co-producer and host of <a href="http://www.quickiefest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.quickiefest.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNY-eLhJkHX0AEO1cFbHje2_TaNQ">Quickie Fest: The One Minute Movie Festival</a> in NYC. She writes a bad movie column called <a href="https://talkhouse.com/tag/am-i-the-only-one-who-loves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Am I The Only One Who Loves&#8230;&#8221;</a> for Talkhouse. She also likes good movies too! Anna performs standup comedy and sings all over. For comedy videos, reels, and press, check out <a href="http://www.annaroisman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.annaroisman.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG0c3bq5yZQli14Bq6ID3gvmfcjqQ">AnnaRoisman.com</a>.</div>

Anna Roisman

Am I The Only One Who Loves … Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo?

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

Reflections on the Making of a Hybrid Film: This Is Not a War Story

Comedian Julia Scotti is the subject of the new documentary <a href="https://geni.us/JuliaScottiFilm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Scotti: Funny That Way</a>, which is available on digital platforms on June 1. Since 1980, Julia has been honing her craft in clubs and theaters throughout the United States and Canada, performing for the first 20 years as Rick Scotti, and now, after a life-changing hiatus, returning as Julia Scotti. Since coming back to comedy in 2011, she has been named one of the Top Five Transgender Comedians in the Country by The Advocate, has performed at LGBTQ events across the country, and was one of the winners of the Laughlin Laugh Festival in Nevada. Simon Cowell said, “You genuinely made me laugh,” as she introduced herself to a national audience on Season 11 of America’s Got Talent. She was the first transgender comedian to appear on national television and was a quarter-finalist on the show. In 2017, Julia released her first, best-selling comedy CD, Hello Boys I’m Back!, and is gearing up to record her second one. In 2020, she was featured on the Showtime special More Funny Women of a Certain Age.

Julia Scotti

Success Isn’t Where You Think It Is

Lane Michael Stanley (he/they) is a transgender writer and director making community-embedded work around queerness, healing, grief, recovery, restorative justice, and housing insecurity. Their films include their award-winning debut feature film Addict Named Hal (2022); their upcoming second feature T (currently in post-production after being filmed incrementally over the lead actor’s first two years on Testosterone); their short films Untie, Promise and Boifriend (co-directed with Rebecca Marquardt); and their upcoming documentary Quentin Blue. Their plays and films have been presented at 20 theaters and 33 film festivals in 33 states, in addition to soup kitchens, shelters, addiction treatment centers, meditation gardens, and San Quentin State Prison. Lane holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin and is the 2023-2024 Resident Artist with coLAB Arts and Mission First Housing Group. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.lanemichaelstanley.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.lanemichaelstanley.com</a>.

Lane Michael Stanley

Sound of Metal: An Addiction Movie Without Drugs

Natalie Morales is an actor, director, writer, and activist. Natalie made her solo directorial debut with the teen road-trip comedy Plan B, which premieres on Hulu May 28, and co-directed Language Lessons with Mark Duplass, which won the audience award at this year’s SXSW and will hit theaters this fall. Natalie recently starred alongside Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini in the Netflix series, Dead to Me, lent her voice to the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and starred in the action comedy Stuber, alongside Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. She starred in NBC’s Abby’s as the titular character, and recurred on The Newsroom, Girls, Parks &amp; Recreation and Santa Clarita Diet. She also created, directed and stars in the Funny or Die series James Joyce’s Love Letters and recently directed two episodes of HBO’s Duplass Brothers anthology, Room 104. Natalie is a proud member of Everytown for Gun Safety’s Creative Council. (Photo by Catie Laffoon.)

Natalie Morales

Three Great Things: Natalie Morales

Actress Inbar Lavi is best known for her roles on Bravo’s Imposters and Fox’s Prison Break. She is currently starring as Eve in Lucifer; Part B of the show’s fifth season premieres on Netflix on May 28. During quarantine, Inbar created the brand Lavi, with all proceeds going to female-owned business hit hard by the pandemic. Inbar is also an ambassador of The Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and The Make-a-Wish Israel Foundation and volunteers at Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles, a community-run Kosher kitchen that brings people together to assist the less fortunate. She will be releasing her first single this summer as well, and are excited to share a link to her song with you soon. Inbar was born and raised in Israel, and currently resides in Los Angeles. (Image by Rowan Daly.)