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Michael M. Bilandic is a New York-based filmmaker. His first feature, Happy Life, was called the &#8220;poor schlub&#8217;s High Fidelity&#8221; by Variety. His latest film, <a href="https://www.roxycinematribeca.com/blog/micheal-m-bilandic-retrospective-at-roxy-cinema-and-premiere-of-new-film-project-space-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Space 13</a>, opens on December 3 at The Roxy.

Michael M. Bilandic

Film

reRunning Happy Life

Ryan Spahn is an actor, filmmaker and writer. He has been published by Rotten Tomatoes, Metro Weekly, USA Today, IntoMore, and American Theatre Magazine. As an actor, he can be seen in American Horror Story, Succession, The Bite, Chicago P.D., and Modern Love. Ryan is a graduate of Juilliard and is based in New York City. Go <a href="https://linktr.ee/RyanSpahn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> for more info.

Ryan Spahn

Make the Yuletide Gay

Devon Sawa is currently starring in the comedy horror <a href="https://screenmediafilms.net/film/3371/Black-Friday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Friday</a>, opposite Bruce Campbell, Devon Ivana Baquero and Michael Jai White. He made his film debut in Little Giants in 1994, played the title role as a human boy in Casper the following year and further made his name in the films Wild America, Idle Hands and Final Destination. In 2000, Sawa played the title character of the Eminem music video &#8220;Stan.&#8221; Among his many other TV and film credits, Sawa portrayed the role of Owen Elliott on The CW action drama series Nikita and starred in the thriller The Fanatic, directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, where he played Hunter Dunbar, an actor who is stalked by John Travolta’s Moose.

Devon Sawa

Three Great Things: Devon Sawa

Andy Ostroy is a film and television producer and director. His latest project, Adrienne, is an HBO documentary he produced and directed about his late wife, actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in 2006. Following her death, he produced Serious Moonlight, a script she&#8217;d written, and which starred Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton and was directed by Cheryl Hines. He&#8217;s working on producing a stage version of the script, and is also in development with a television series. He founded the Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2006 which supports female filmmakers with grants and scholarships. and serves as the organization’s executive director.

Andy Ostroy

My Journey to Adrienne

Pete Ohs writes, directs, shoots and edits. His latest film, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09L77C3SG/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youngstown</a>, is now streaming on Amazon Prime. He is a four-time Emmy-Award winner and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine&#8216;s &#8220;25 New Faces of Independent Film&#8221; for 2013. His feature-length sci-fi film Everything Beautiful Is Far Away stars Julia Garner &amp; Joseph Cross. premiered in competition at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award, was acquired by The Orchard and is currently available to stream online. He edited the features Beast Beast directed by Danny Madden, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and Olympic Dreams, starring Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas and directed by Jeremy Teicher, which premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and was named one of the 10 best films at the Festival by both Hollywood Reporter and Indiewire. He lives and works in Los Angeles. (Photo by Christian Sorensen Hansen.)

Pete Ohs

No Script. No Budget. No Crew. No Problem.

Krisha Fairchild is currently starring in the drama Freeland, which is now available on demand. She came out of her retirement to play the starring role in Trey Edward Shults’ debut feature, Krisha. Based on a true story, the film was hailed as one of the 10 best films ever made on addiction. It won top honors at American festivals SXSW, Denver, Nashville and Sidewalk, as well as the Taormina Festival in Italy, and Deauville in France, on the heels of its European premiere at Cannes in 2015. Her performance was lauded in feature articles in the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and many others. In 2016, she was honored to be selected as a part of the Great Performers issue of the New York Times Magazine. The film Krisha won Spirit and Gotham awards. She also played a lead in the series Butchers Block.

Krisha Fairchild

Three Great Things: Krisha Fairchild

Niav Conty is an active freelance director, cinematographer and screenwriter in New York City. Her award-winning films have travelled to festivals worldwide. She is a recipient of the Kodak Award for cinematography, and the prestigious Princess Grace Award. Small Time, her 2020 feature shot in rural Pennsylvania, is out now. It has won 9 awards, including the Spirit of Freedom Award, the EDA award for best female-directed feature, and four Best Feature awards. She is currently in post-production on her newest feature, Person Woman Man Camera Tv, about an interracial couple disintegrating during the 2020 pandemic. Read more at her official website, <a href="http://www.niav-film.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">niav-film.com</a>.

Niav Conty

Realer Than Reality

Actress and vocalist Beanie Feldstein is currently starring in <a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The H</a><a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">umans</a>, opposite Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun and June Squibb, and recently starred in and produced Ryan Murphy’s limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story, playing the role of Monica Lewinsky. Feldstein previously starred in Olivia Wilde’s hit comedy Booksmart, opposite Kaitlyn Dever, for which she received a 2020 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, and in Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird, opposite Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. She made her feature film debut in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, alongside Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Chloe Grace Moretz and also starred in the comedies How to Build a Girl and The Female Brain, opposite Sofia Vergara, Cecily Strong and James Marsden. Feldstein made her Broadway debut in 2017 in the Bette Midler-led production Hello, Dolly! and in 2020 will play Fanny Brice in the 2022 Broadway production of Funny Girl.

Beanie Feldstein

Three Great Things: Beanie Feldstein

Mike Mills was born in Berkeley, California in 1966. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1989. Mills works as a filmmaker, graphic designer, and artist. Mills is best known for his independent films 20th Century Women (2016), Beginners (2011), and Thumbsucker (2005) as well as his exhibitions at the Alleged Gallery, which were documented in the book, exhibition and film Beautiful Losers. His latest film, <a href="https://a24films.com/films/cmon-cmon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C’mon C’mon</a>, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffman and Woody Norman, is out November 24 through A24 Films.

Mike Mills

Three Great Things: Mike Mills

Eleanor Coppola is an accomplished artist and filmmaker. In 2016, at the age of 80, Eleanor directed her first feature film, Paris Can Wait, and her second feature, <a href="https://loveis-film.us/movies/13034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love is Love is Love</a>, three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends, is out now in theaters and will be on available on VOD on December 14. While living in the Philippines during the making of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, she shot the documentary footage for the Emmy award-winning film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker&#8217;s Apocalypse. She has since made behind-the-scenes documentaries on seven films directed by her family. Eleanor&#8217;s drawings, photos, and conceptual art pieces have been exhibited in many galleries and museums. She created &#8220;Circle of Memory,&#8221; a large-scale straw-bale cairn, installed internationally, built to recall and commemorate children who are missing or have died. She has written two well-received books, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now (1979) and Notes on a Life (2008). She designed costumes for ODC/Dance, a contemporary dance company based in San Francisco. She is also actively involved in the Coppola family wine companies.

Eleanor Coppola

Three Great Things: Eleanor Coppola

Christopher Makoto Yogi is an artist and filmmaker from Honolulu, Hawai‘i. His debut feature film, the award-winning August at Akiko’s, had its world premiere at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2018 to critical acclaim and was named by Richard Brody in The New Yorker as one of the best films of 2019. <a href="https://strandreleasing.com/films/i-was-a-simple-man/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Was a Simple Man</a>, his second feature film, had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is in theaters through Strand Releasing from November 19. Chris’ short films include the documentaries Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai‘i and Makoto: or, Honesty, and the fiction film Obake (Ghosts). Chris is a fellow of Berlinale Talents, Visual Communications’ Armed with a Camera, Kyoto Filmmakers Lab, and New York Film Festival Artists Academy.

Christopher Makoto Yogi

Parenthood, Panic Attacks and Premiering at Sundance

Jim Cummings is the writer, director, and actor behind Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow. His latest feature, <a href="https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-beta-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Beta Test</a>, which he co-directed, co-write and co-starred in with PJ McCabe, is in theaters and on demand now.