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Christopher Munch’s first feature, The Hours and Times, was released in 1992, and won prizes at Sundance and Berlin. Munch’s subsequent features include: Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1997), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Harry and Max (2004), and Letters From the Big Man (2011). His most recent feature, The 11th Green (2020), a what-if chronicle of President Eisenhower’s folkloric (or not) involvement in UFO events, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and named one of the best movies of the year by The New Yorker. He is currently preparing to shoot A Cat Called Nadja, which dramatizes the converging catastrophes of his aborted first feature and a near-fatal relationship.

Christopher Munch

Film

Staunchly Independent: A Personal Remembrance of Robert M. Young

Zarrar Kahn is an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker whose debut feature, <a href="https://linktr.ee/inflamesmovie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Flames</a>, premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director’s Fortnight and is in theaters now. His works have been screened and awarded in over 100+ film festivals, including TIFF, Locarno, and BFI London. In Flames, his feature directorial debut, has garnered critical acclaim and prizes worldwide, including the Golden Yusr for Best Picture at Red Sea International Film Festival and the Grand Prize &#8211; International Newcomer Award at Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival. Born in Karachi, and currently based out of Toronto, Kahn is committed to telling stories that amplify historically marginalized communities.(Photo by Norman Wong.)

Zarrar Kahn

From Dog Walker to Cannes Director

Andrew Matthews is an Austin-based filmmaker whose film Zero Charisma won the Audience Award at SXSW. He is the creator and writer of several award-winning educational series for PBS Digital Studios.

Andrew Matthews

All Is Lost

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

Three Great Things: Tye Sheridan

Music

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.)