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Talkhouse

Greta Schiller launched her filmmaking career with Before Stonewall (1985), which won two Emmy Awards. In 2019, the film was re-released, ran in 65 cinemas, and was selected for the National Film Registry. Her other credits include the award-winning films Paris Was a Woman, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Tiny &amp; Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women, Escape to Life, The Man Who Drove with Mandela, I Live at Ground Zero, No Dinosaurs in Heaven, The Marion Lake Story and Bones of Contention. Schiller holds a BFA in Film/Video and a Masters in Science Education from the City College of New York which awarded her the Townsend Harris Medal for Outstanding Contributions to her Field. Her newest film is The Land of Azaba (Kino Lorber 2020), which is premiering in the Vallodolid Film Festival this fall. She is founding director of <a href="http://www.jezebelproductions.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jezebel Productions</a>, a women’s production company since 1984.

Greta Schiller

Film

New York City in the ’70s was a Wonderland

Susan Seidelman, a graduate of NYU Grad Film School, began her career in the 1980s when Smithereens became the first American independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, was a critical and commercial success. She has directed dozens of other films starring actors such as Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, and Sally Field, as well as the first four episodes of Sex and the City. She lives in New Jersey.

Susan Seidelman

Three Great Things: Susan Seidelman

Jaime King is currently starring in the thriller Lights Out, opposite Frank Grillo, Mekhi Fifer, Dermot Mulroney and Scott Adkins. She made her debut in Daniel Waters&#8217; Happy Campers, then starred opposite Johnny Depp in Ted Demme&#8217;s Blow, opposite Ben Affleck in Michael Bay&#8217;s Pearl Harbor and was part of an all-star cast featuring Benicio Del Toro, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and more in Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s Sin City. Her other major films include DJ Caruso&#8217;s Two for the Money, starring opposite Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, Frank Millers&#8217; The Spirit with Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson, and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, appearing opposite Joseph Gordon Levitt and Josh Brolin. On TV, she was a series regular on the CW show Hart of Dixie and recently starred in the critically acclaimed hit Netflix series series Black Summer.

Jaime King

Three Great Things: Jaime King

Virginia Madsen can currently be seen in Nicola Peltz Beckham’s Lola, which is out now in theaters. She was most recently be seen in the Lionsgate horror film entitled Prey for the Devil, the psychological thriller The Portrait and the independent feature entitled One Day as a Lion, opposite J.K. Simmons and Frank Grillo. Virginia received an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in Alexander Payne&#8217;s Sideways. She recently starred as series regular Maria Sutherland on the CW streaming service series Swamp Thing. Virginia can also be seen in the independent films Her Smell, directed by Alex Ross Perry and starring Elisabeth Moss and Cara Delevingne, and 1985, directed by Yen Tan, which premiered at acclaimed film festivals SXSW and Outfest. She also appeared opposite Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper in the 2015 feature Joy, directed by David O. Russell. Virginia’s other notable film credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker with Matt Damon, the horror classic Candyman with Kasi Lemmons, The Hot Spot directed by Dennis Hopper, HBO’s first feature Long Gone and David Lynch’s cult classic Dune.

Virginia Madsen

Three Great Things: Virginia Madsen

Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.’s latest film as directors, Mean Girls, debvuted at the #1 film at the U.S. box office and is out now in theaters. Jayne and Perez are previously known for their work on the critically acclaimed FX shortform series Quarter Life Poetry, which Jayne wrote and starred in and Perez directed. The series originally premiered in 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival, where Jayne was named one of Indiewire’s “14 Breakout Stars of the Festival,” and was based on Jayne’s book Quarter Life Poetry: Poems for the Young, Broke &amp; Hangry, which has sold around the world. Perez is a veteran music video director who has worked with such artists as the Killers, the Lumineers, FINNEAS and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, and received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Director for his work on Justin Timberlake’s “Say Something” video. Perez and Jayne currently reside in California. (Photo via Jojo Whilden/Paramount Pictures.)

Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.

The Polar Bear and the Giraffe, or How We Collaborate

Shelley Hennig can currently be seen in the new thriller Cult Killer, also starring Alice Eve and Antonio Banderas, as the powerhouse female lead in Netflix’s global hit Obliterated, an action-packed dramedy series from the creators of Cobra Kai and in the Paramount + film Teenwolf: The Movie. Previously, Shelley recurred on the Netflix mini-series WOMAN IN THE HOUSE starring Kristen Bell, and on both Mystic Quest, created by Rob McElhenney, and Hulu’s Kat Dennings comedy Dollface. She also starred in Netflix comedies When We First Met and Afterparty as well as the Denzel Washington movie Roman J. Israel, Esq. and the horror films Unfriended and Ouija. She played fan favorite Malia Tate for four seasons on MTV’s Teen Wolf, winning a 2016 Teen Choice Award for her role. A New Orleans native, Shelley is passionate about charitable causes, working often with special needs organizations, specifically Best Buddies.

Shelley Hennig

Three Great Things: Shelley Hennig

Alice Eve is a currently starring in Cult Killer, opposite Antonio Banderas and Shelley Hennig. Her first major film roles were in Starter for 10 opposite James McAvoy and Big Nothing alongside David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg and she gained wide critical acclaim in the United States for her breakout role opposite Jay Baruchel in the 2010 comedy She’s Out of My League. She has subsequently starred in major franchise hits such as Sex and the City 2, Men in Black 3, Star Trek Into Darkness and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. In 2014, Eve starred opposite Chris Evans in his directorial debut Before We Go. On TV, Alice had a recurring role on Entourage, as Sophia, a journalist and love interest to leading man Vincent Chase (played by Adrien Grenier), and she starred in the Marvel series Iron Fist and appeared opposite Bryce Dallas Howard in the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive.” Most recently, she starred in The Lovers for Sky Atlantic Television and the feature film Freelance, opposite John Cena and Alison Brie.

Alice Eve

Three Great Things: Alice Eve

Phoebe Nir is the writer-director of the new film Eco Village, starring Sidney Flanigan, Alex Breaux and Lindsay Burdge, which will premiere at the <a href="https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/eco-village" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam</a> on February 1. She holds a BA from Brown University in Writing for Performance and an MA in Drama Therapy from New York University. Her work in musical theater has been showcased in New York City at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s 54 Below, LaMaMa Theater, and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. As a singer-songwriter, she released two critically acclaimed EPs –Side Hustle and Red Tape Nation – and opened for the Modern English and James Chance &amp; the Contortions at SXSW. Find her @phoebe_devere on TikTok and YouTube to learn more about Oxfordianism, the theory that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare under a penname.

Phoebe Nir

What Dreams Are Made Of: On Lizzie McGuire and the Sexual Innocence of Early 2000s Cinema

rubberband. is a directing duo comprised of Jason Filmore Sondock and Simon Davis, operating out of New York City. They met at NYU in 2011 and have been directing together under the moniker since the end of 2015. They’ve made a lot of stuff for a lot of people and brands and artists, and, sometimes, themselves. Their commitment to soulful, earnest filmmaking and forward thinking aesthetic design has led them into a physical approach to filmmaking, versus a completely intellectualized one.

rubberband.

Vimeo Staff Pick Mixtape: rubberband.

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

My 1976 Jodie Fosterthon

Andrew Thomas Huang is a visual artist, writer and director who crafts hybrid fantasy worlds and mythical dreamscapes. Known for his Grammy nominated music videos of Björk, FKA twigs and Thom Yorke, Huang is also recognized as a writer and directer of narrative film. His work has been commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Inspired by his queer Chinese heritage, Huang’s work mines the unconscious realms to blend technology, mysticism, future folklore and queer spirituality.

Andrew Thomas Huang

Vimeo Staff Pick Mixtape: Andrew Thomas Huang

Enid Tihanyi Zentelis is a writer and director. Her features include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated Evergreen and Tribeca&#8217;s Nora Ephron Prize-nominated Bottled Up. She created and hosts the nonfiction narrative podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-grandmother-won-wwii/id1550511220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How My Grandmother Won WWII</a>, which is available everywhere you get your podcasts. You can download free transcripts and subscribe for series extras <a href="http://www.patreon.com/HowMyGrandmotherWonWWII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.