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Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked at Kim’s Video in Manhattan. He is the director of the films Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell, Pavements and the new documentary Videoheaven.

Alex Ross Perry

Film

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil

Joe Swanberg has directed many acclaimed feature films and web shows, including Hannah Takes The Stairs, Alexander the Last, Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas and the IFC.com series Young American Bodies. He also co-directed and acted in the breakout horror film V/H/S. His films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin and SXSW and regularly appear on TV and in film festivals and theaters around the world.

Joe Swanberg

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Ben Falcone’s Tammy

Frankie Latina is an Italian-American independent writer-director born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who began using his uncle Dave&#8217;s Super 8mm camera to make movies when he was a teenager. He studied film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he learned how to make 16mm movies, and made his feature debut in 2009 with Modus Operandi. It was released theatrically by Kino Lorber in 2010 and is now available on VOD. <a href="http://www.frankielatina.com/" target="_blank">Latina</a> is currently making his second feature, Snapshot.

Frankie Latina

Frankie Latina (Modus Operandi) Talks Making No-Budget Arthouse Genre Movies in Milwaukee

Ian Harnarine&#8216;s short film <a href="http://www.doubleswithslightpepper.com/" target="_blank">Doubles With Slight Pepper</a> won the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Academy Award. He is currently working on a feature-length version. In addition to making films, he teaches both in the Physics Department and Graduate Film School at New York University.

Ian Harnarine

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Stuart Gordon was a writer-director-producer of film, television and theater. He is best known for the cult classic Re-Animator and for having murdered his wife Carolyn in his films whenever possible.

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Katrin Gebbe’s Nothing Bad Can Happen

David Wain is an American comedian, writer, actor and director. He is most widely known for directing the feature films Role Models, Wanderlust, and Wet Hot American Summer,&nbsp;&amp; the sketch comedy series The State.&nbsp;He&nbsp;is a founding member of comedy group Stella,&nbsp;along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black.

David Wain

Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, a married filmmaking duo, created the web series <a href="http://www.helpingyoumaintain.com/episodes" target="_blank">High Maintenance</a>, which they write, direct, and produce together. It has been praised by the likes of The New Yorker, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone. <a href="http://www.hellokatja.com/" target="_blank">Blichfeld</a> received an Emmy for her work in casting (30 Rock, 2013). Sinclair stars in High Maintenance, which was recently picked up by HBO for a six-episode run. (Photo by Cameron Marshad)

Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair

Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair (High Maintenance) Talk David Wain’s They Came Together

Mark Rappaport’s film include From the Journals of Jean Seberg and Rock Hudson’s Home Movies. Since 2014, Rappaport has made 20 video essays ranging from 10 minutes to an hour, including one for Talkhouse, <a href="../video-essay-mark-rappaport-on-the-empty-screen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Empty Screen</a>. His new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Dreams-Mark-Rappaport/dp/6086733902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Book of Dreams</a>, a mesmerizing collection of almost 100 photomontages, is now available to buy. Four collections of his essays and fictions — all about film — The Moviegoer Who Knew Too Much, (F)au(x)tobiographies, and The Secret Life Of Moving Shadows — Pt 1 and Pt 2 are available as e-books.

Mark Rappaport

Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer

Tim Sutton is the writer and director of four critically acclaimed feature films: Pavilion (2012), Memphis (2014), Dark Night (2016), Donnybrook (2018) and, most recently, Funny Face, which world premiered at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and is out April 2 through Gravitas Ventures. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.

Tim Sutton

Tim Sutton (Pavilion) Talks Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction

Kyra Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of Just One Night, the critically acclaimed Sophie Katz mystery series, and the novel So Much for My Happy Ending. Now a full-time author and television writer, Kyra lives in the Los Angeles area with her son and their lovable leopard gecko, Alisa. Visit her online at <a href="http://www.KyraDavis.com" target="_blank">KyraDavis.com</a> or follow her <a href="https://twitter.com/_KyraDavis" target="_blank">@_KyraDavis</a>.

Kyra Davis

Novelist Kyra Davis Talks the Women of Game of Thrones

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur

Amanda Rose Wilder&#8216;s first feature,&nbsp;<a href="http://approachingtheelephant.com/" target="_blank">Approaching The Elephant</a>,&nbsp;debuted at True/False Film Fest 2014 and had its New York premiere at <a href="http://www.bam.org/film/2014/approaching-the-elephant" target="_blank">BAMcinemaFest</a>. She has written on movies, filmmaking and transmedia for Nonfics, IFP and Filmmaker magazine. (Photo credit: Kate Reeder)