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Jane Weinstock is a director and writer based in New York City. Her most recent film, <a href="https://www.threebirthdays.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Three Birthdays</a>, received the NYWIFT narrative director award at the Woodstock Film Festival and is out now in theaters. It also won the best feature director award at the LA Femme International Film Festival. In 2013 she directed The Moment, a psychological thriller starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alia Shawkat and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The film premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature directorial debut, Easy (2003), starring Marguerite Moreau, Brían F. O&#8217;Byrne, and Naveen Andrews, was an official selection at The Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Weinstock also co-directed Sigmund Freud’s Dora, a short film that showed at The Berlin International Film Festival and the Whitney Museum. She attended the Sundance Director’s Lab. In addition to directing, Weinstock has written on film, art, and feminism. She has a masters in Cinema Studies from NYU and a BA from Princeton.

Jane Weinstock

Film

Revisited: Sex and the Movies

Tim Key is a comedian, poet, actor, and writer who co-wrote and stars in the new comedy <a href="https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ballad-of-wallis-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ballad of Wallis Island</a>, which is in select theaters from March 28 and everywhere from April 18. Key won the Perrier Award in 2009 and has since gone on to write and perform eight solo shows, including the smash hit, Mulberry. On screen, he is best known as Sidekick Simon in This Time with Alan Partridge, as well as The Double, Peep Show and The End of the F***ing World. Most recently, he was seen opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 and played Commissioner Harrold Scott alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They Run. His radio series Late Night Poetry with Tim Key has just been commissioned for a sixth season and Key also has written several successful poetry anthologies, including Chapters, He Used Thought as a Wife and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

Tim Key

Revisited: Three Great Things: Tim Key

Haroula Rose is a filmmaker and performer from Chicago, now living in Los Angeles. In 2025, All Happy Families, her sophomore feature film as writer, director and producer, was released in theaters nationwide. The film was executive produced by Michael Shannon and stars Josh Radnor, Becky Ann Baker, Chandra Russell, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, David Pasquesi and Colleen Camp. Her debut feature as writer-director, Once Upon a River, an adaptation of the bestselling novel, won 19 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide. Haroula was selected to be part of Hello Sunshine’s short film series, for which she wrote and directed a romcom fable called Hound of Love. Other acclaimed short films and videos include As They Slept, Lost &amp; Found, Wedding Dress, No Love Song and Baby Crazy. Rose received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and attended USC&#8217;s MFA program. As a producer she has worked on Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, David Sington’s The Fear of Thirteen, Heaven Adores You, Permanent and Saint Frances. Rose has released three LPs as well as remixes, singles and EP’s with Thirty Tigers and Tone Tree Music. Her latest collaboration is a group of compositions with Oliver Hill, released on Ba Da Bing Records in early 2025.

Haroula Rose

Some Holiday Spirit: On Film and Chosen Families

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

The Mind-Crawling Horror of a Perpetual Christmas

Park Chan-wook’s latest film, the dark comedic thriller <a href="https://www.neonrated.com/film/no-other-choice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Other Choice</a>, hits theaters on Christmas Day. A South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer who is among the most acclaimed auteurs in the world, he is perhaps best known for his “Vengeance Trilogy,” consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. His other acclaimed films include the vampire drama Thirst (2009); Stoker (2013), his Hollywood debut; the psychological thriller The Handmaiden (2016); and the Hitchcockian Decision To Leave (2022), for which he won Best Director at Cannes. He also directed and executive produced the BAFTA-winning series The Little Drummer Girl (2018), and was the co-showrunner of The Sympathizer (2024), an HBO Series starring Robert Downey Jr., based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

Park Chan-wook

Best of 2025: Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice) on Discovering Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighboring Sounds

Kaouther Ben Hania constantly explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary; her sixth film,<a href="https://www.thevoiceofhindrajabfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The Voice of Hind Rajab</a>, is now in theaters. As a filmmaker, she constantly explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Her previous film, Four Daughters, was nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Awards 2024, after being presented in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film received numerous prestigious awards and was sold in over 40 territories. Her 2021 film, The Man Who Sold His Skin, was also nominated at the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film in 2021, representing Tunisia. All her other films have premiered at prestigious festivals including: Cannes, Venice, AFI, Los Angeles, Locarno, IDFA, Hot Docs Toronto. (Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo.)

Kaouther Ben Hania

Best of 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) on The President’s Cake and The Penguin

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That

Podcast

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Sarah Sherman

Bi Gan’s latest film, <a href="https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resurrection</a>, premiered in competition at Cannes, where it won the Prix Spécial, and is in theaters now through Janus Films. Born in June 1989 in Kaili, China, Bi Gan made his feature debut with Kaili Blues (2015), which was selected in 70 festivals, and received the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Locarno Festival and the prestigious “Best New Director Award” at the Golden Horse Awards. In 2018, his second feature film, Long Day&#8217;s Journey Into Night, a monumental fresco in 3D, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews. Bi Gan directed an ambitious short film in 2022 called A Short Story, told through the eyes of a cat.

Bi Gan

Best of 2025: Bi Gan (Resurrection) on Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Joseph Kosinski’s F1 and Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides

Hailey Benton Gates is a filmmaker based in New York City whose Sundance-winning debut feature as writer-director, Atropia, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, is <a href="https://www.ifccenter.com/films/atropia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in theaters now</a>. Her award-winning short film from which Atropia grew, Shako Mako, starring Alia Shawkat, premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. As an occasional actress, Hailey has appeared in David Lynch’s acclaimed reboot Twin Peaks: The Return, the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. She received her BFA from NYU in Experimental Theater and Playwriting and was an editor at The Paris Review. For two seasons, she was the host and producer of the award-winning docuseries States of Undress for Vice TV, which saw Gates travel the globe, often to conflict zones, to explore the intersection of fashion, politics, and women’s rights. She received the Gracie Award by the Alliance for Women in Media for Best Non-fiction Series as well as the Front Page Award for Outstanding Reporting in Television.

Hailey Benton Gates

Best of 2025: Hailey Benton Gates (Atropia) on Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project

Evan Mathis’ short film <a href="https://www.thehemingway.film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hemingway</a>, which he co-directed with Patrick Sean O’Brien, is currently playing at film festivals. Mathis is a three-time Emmy-winning multi-disciplinary creative whose passion for making things fuels his award-winning work. He has built a career weaving his diverse passions into projects honored by One Show, Clios, Promax BDA, the Emmys and more and his work has been featured in outlets including Adweek, Ad Age, Variety and Sports Illustrated. Evan has shared his expertise by speaking at design conferences worldwide, and takes pride in collaborating with a lot of remarkable people at leading companies across the entertainment and advertising industries.

Evan Mathis

Say Yes, a Lot

Walker Kalan is a filmmaker based in New York. <a href="https://www.inylseries.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Need Your Love</a>, the comedy series he co-created with pop singer Camille Trust, premiered at Tribeca, won a jury award at Slamdance, and is now available on YouTube and Spotify. Walker’s previous work has won jury awards at Brooklyn Film Festival, HollyShorts, and Ventana Sur. He’s currently developing a drama series set at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships and training his rescue hound, Snoopy, for her on-camera debut.

Walker Kalan

How to Bribe a Priest, and All the Illegal Things We Had to Do to Make Our Series

Marilyn Fu is the screenwriter of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rosemeadfilm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rosemead</a>, a feature film starring Lucy Liu and based on the award-winning Los Angeles Times article by Frank Shyong. The film earned her a 2025  nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards, one of Asia’s highest honors in cinema, and is currently playing in theaters in New York and opens in Los Angeles on December 12. She is a writer on Peacock’s espionage thriller series, The Copenhagen Test, executive produced by James Wan and starring Simu Liu and she wrote the pilot for the Will Packer/Roma Downey-produced The Baxters on Amazon Prime. In features, she wrote The Honor List, released by Lionsgate, and The Sisterhood of Night based on a Steven Millhauser story, for which she won an award at Tribeca. Earlier in her career, she was a writer/reporter for over 40 publications under Time Inc. She earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she became the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and later returned to teach television writing. She lives in New York with her husband, actor Graham Sibley and their sons, Lyon and K.P. (Photo by Joe Turner Lin.)