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Tye Sheridan is currently starring in the lead role in the new drama <a href="https://www.asphaltcityfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asphalt City</a>, opposite Sean Penn, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kali Reis, Michael Carmen Pitt, Katherine Waterston and Mike Tyson. He made his on-screen film debut at 11 in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film festival. He has since worked with some of the most creative filmmakers of our time, including Steven Spielberg, Paul Schrader, George Clooney, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. For his performance in Joe he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for best upcoming young actor at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013. In 2017, alongside Nikola Todorovic, he co-founded Wonder Dynamics, whose mission is to democratize the use of high-end CGI and VFX for filmmakers by leveraging state-of-the-art AI. Wonder Dynamics is backed by Epic Games, Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, Samsung Next and has an advisory board that includes Steven Spielberg, Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo and Antonio Torralba, Head of AI at MIT. (Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/36057815481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gage Skidmore / Flickr</a>.)

Tye Sheridan

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Three Great Things: Tye Sheridan

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Announcing the Talkhouse Reader #2: The Food Issue

David Krumholtz is currently starring as the title character in writer-director Bob Byington’s new comedy <a href="https://www.magpictures.com/lousycarter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lousy Carter</a>, opposite Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby and Stephen Root. He played Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs and has beloved roles in the Harold &amp; Kumar and The Santa Clause film franchises. He played the grumpy group therapy leader in Byington’s Frances Ferguson, and also stars in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

David Krumholtz

Three Great Things: David Krumholtz

Isabella Rossellini is currently starring opposite Josh O’Connor and Carol Duarte in Alice Rohrwacher’s new film,<a href="https://neonrated.com/films/la-chimera" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> La Chimera</a>. She is the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini, she graced the cover of over 500 magazines as a model, and as an actress worked with a wide range of directors including Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, Robert Wilson, Taylo rHackford, Peter Weir, David Lynch and Guy Maddin. Her most notable films include Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, The Saddest Music in the World, Big Night and Joy. She has a recurring role in the HBO-MAX series Julia, and recently toured her theatrical monologue, Darwin’s Smile. She lent her voice to several animations including the Academy Award nominee Marcel the Shell, Disney-Pixar’s The Incredibles and Julio Torres’ film Problemista. Isabella has a master’s degree in Animal Behavior and Conservation. Her comedic short film series that she wrote and directed about animal behavior, Green Porno, Seduce Me, and Mammas, are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. Isabella is the founder of <a href="https://www.mamafarm.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mama Farm</a>, an organic farm in Brookhaven, New York, where she resides. She is a mother of two and a grandmother. (Photo by Tabercil, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Rossellini_%289711294445%29.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikimedia Commons</a>.)

Isabella Rossellini

Three Great Things: Isabella Rossellini

Haley Elizabeth Anderson is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Houston, Texas. Her debut feature, Tendaberry, had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, playing in the NEXT section and had its hometown premiere at the First Look film festival at the Museum of the Moving Image. Her short Pillars premiered at Sundance and won Best Short Film at AFI Fest in 2020. Named one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2019, Anderson is currently developing her second feature, Coyote Boys, with support from SFFILM, Gotham, Tribeca, Sundance, Ucross Foundation, and Film Independent.

Haley Elizabeth Anderson

Tendaberry: A Places Album

As a writer-director, Cosmo Salovaara’s work has been nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award, acquired by MUBI, and premiered at top tier festivals like Tribeca, Maryland and AFI Fest. His clients include Kate Spade, Refinery29, and Interview Magazine. In his digital series The Future is Then and Let Me Die a Nun, Salovaara employed high-stakes satire to respectively critique tech-industry gentrification and aggressive male courtship. His work aims to center underrepresented communities, while teasing the limits of popular gender and genre tropes. He is currently working on a feature about a cancelled man, and another about an anti-aging blood transfusion app called DRAWN. His scripts have participated in Fantasia&#8217;s Frontières Market and the Gotham&#8217;s U.S. Features in Progress. He participated in the New York Film Festival Artist Academy, and holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

Cosmo Salovaara

SXSW ’24 Showcases an Industry in Flux

Brooklynn Prince is currently starring in the coming-of-age drama Little Wing, opposite Kelly Reilly and Brian Cox, which is now streaming on Paramount Plus. She had her breakout role aged six in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, for which she won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Performer. Her recent projects Neil Burger’s film The Marsh King’s Daughter for Lionsgate Films, alongside Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn, Elizabeth Banks’ crowd-pleasing hit Cocaine Bear, and the AppleTV+ series Home Before Dark. Brooklynn’s previous credits include starring in Settlers with Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller and The Turning, opposite Mackenzie Davis and Finn Wolfhard. and voicing roles in in Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Disney’s The One and Only Ivan, alongside Angelina Jolie, and The Angry Birds Movie 2.

Brooklynn Prince

Three Great Things: Brooklynn Prince

Graham Swon is an American producer and director. He has worked with many independent filmmakers, including Matías Piñeiro, Ted Fendt, Joanna Arnow and Ricky D’Ambrose. In 2016, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” His first film as a writer-director, The World is Full of Secrets, played in BAMCinemaFest in 2019 and was released by Kino Lorber. In 2023 he won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for his production of The Cathedral, and in 2024 was nominated from the Independent Spirit Producers Award. An Evening Song (for three voices), his second film as writer-director, <a href="https://movingimage.org/event/evening-song/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screens on Sunday March 17</a> at First Look 2024 at the Museum of the Moving Image. (Photo by Vincent Courtois / Belfort Entrevues Film Festival.)

Graham Swon

Unconscious Possibilities: Dream-state Movies

Lío Mehiel is an actor, artist, and filmmaker. Lío made their feature film debut starring in Sundance 2023’s Mutt. Their critically acclaimed performance earned them the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award in Acting, making them the first trans actor to ever win the award. The film can currently be streamed on Netflix. Most recently, Lío returned to Sundance 2024, starring opposite Leslie Grace, Sasha Calle and Residente in In the Summers, which won the festival’s top honor of Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. As a filmmaker, Lío is a co-founder of Voyeur Productions. Their most recent short, Entre Amigxs, can now be seen on NOWNESS. Lío is currently the producer and creative director of the transgender sculpture collection, Ancient Futures/Angels. The works most recently showed at GUTS Gallery in London and can now be seen at <a href="https://www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/duos-the-art-of-collaboration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charleston</a> in the UK. Their piece Arcade Amerikana was included in the list of 10 Best Immersive Shows in NYC by Time Out and Gothamist. (Photo by Soni Broman.)

Lío Mehiel

I’m Coming, or, I Am on My Way

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo&#8216;s new film as director, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80991090" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Damsel</a>, the neo-feminist fairytale fantasy starring Millie Bobbie Brown, is out now on Netflix. His previous features include directed Intacto and 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle&#8217;s 28 Days Later. His film Esposados was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1996. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, courtesy of Netflix.)

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Three Great Things: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Thomas Haden Church is currently starring in the feelgood movie <a href="https://roadsideattractions.com/filmography/accidentaltexan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accidental Texan</a>, opposite Rudy Pankow, Carrie-Ann Moss and Bruce Dern, which will be in theaters from March 8. He was recently seen in Peacock’s series Twisted Metal, also starring Anthony Mackie, and in the independent break-out hit Peanut Butter Falcon, with Shia LeBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern. He starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in all three seasons of HBO’s Divorce, and had standout movie roles in William Friedkin’s critically acclaimed crime thriller Killer Joe, opposite Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsh, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon; the hit teen comedy Easy A, co-starring opposite Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley and Patrica Clarkson; and Spider-Man 3, in which he played the villain Sandman, aka Flint Marko. In 2004, Church gave a career-defining performance opposite Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne’s critically acclaimed Sideways, earning an Academy Award nomination, plus an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Church co-wrote and directed the film Rolling Kansas, which premiered as an official selection to the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Church resides on his ranch in Texas. (Photo by Jalisco Wayne, courtesy Roadside Attractions.)

Thomas Haden Church

Three Great Things: Thomas Haden Church

Tehran-born, Australia-raised filmmaker Noora Niasari’s debut feature film, <a href="https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/shayda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shayda</a>, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, and is in theaters from March 1 through Sony Pictures Classics. The film, which stars Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Cannes Best Actress Winner for Holy Spider) and was executive produced by Cate Blanchett, is a drama about an Iranian mother living with her six-year-old daughter in an Australian women’s shelter, trying to start a new life away from her estranged husband. Shayda is Australia’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards. (Photo by Keiran Watson-Bonnice.)