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Emily Hagins wrote and directed her first feature film when she was 12-years-old, and her experiences chronicled in the documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie. Now 22, Emily has written and directed four features (most recently Grow Up, Tony Phillips) and is living in Los Angeles.

Emily Hagins

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Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Paul Weitz’s Grandma

Eszter Balint is a singer-songwriter actor and violinist. She has released four albums, and has contributed vocals and/or violin to works by Michael Gira and Swans, John Lurie. Marc Ribot, and Tammy Faye Starlight. Eszter grew up as a child member of the avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre. She has appeared in starring and featured roles in films by Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, Louis CK, and alongside David Bowie. She is currently developing a theatrical show, I Hate Memory!, featuring songs co-written by Stew (of Stew &amp; The Negro Problem and the Tony Award winning show Passing Strange. (Photo by Eric Schneider.)

Eszter Balint

Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

Nikole Beckwith is from Massachusetts. Her debut feature, Stockholm, Pennsylvania (Nicholl Fellowship, Blacklist), premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Her sophomore screenplay, About Ray, will premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. She is currently a Film Fellow with San Francisco Film Society. Her comics have been featured on WNYC, The Huffington Post and The Hairpin and can be seen at <a href="http://nikolebeckwith.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nikolebeckwith.com</a>.

Nikole Beckwith

Nikole Beckwith (Stockholm, Pennsylvania) Talks Her Worst Date Movie Experience

Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, <a href="http://ofherbeauty.com">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,</a> which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.

Terence Nance

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked with Steve Harvey, Lee Daniels, John Cameron Mitchell, Xan Cassavetes, John Krokidas and David France. He produced Jonathan Caouette&rsquo;s landmark &ldquo;narci-cinema&rdquo;&nbsp;documentary&nbsp;Tarnation&nbsp;(A.O. Scott, New York Times).&nbsp;Stephen&#8217;s 2015 film Jason and Shirley, which he wrote and directed, was called &#8220;one of the year&#8217;s finest&#8221; by Richard Brody in The New Yorker. (Photo by shean.)

Stephen Winter

Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) Talks Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints

Zach Clark is the writer-director of The Becomers, Little Sister, White Reindeer, Vacation! and Modern Love is Automatic. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Zach Clark

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm

Geoff Barrow, an English producer/composer, is the founding member of the band Portishead and a member of the experimental trio BEAK&gt;. He launched the independent label Invada Records in 2001, and as a producer has worked with bands as diverse as The Horrors, Quakers and Anika. Barrow was the music supervisor for Banksy&#8217;s film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and most recently created the score for Alex Garland&#8217;s Ex Machina, along with Ben Salisbury. The pair also released Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One, an album of music composed for the film Dredd.

Geoff Barrow

The former frontman of Pop Will Eat Itself, Clint Mansell is an Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated film composer. He is a longtime collaborator of groundbreaking director Darren Aronofsky, for whom Mansell has scored each of his major films, including Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Noah, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Pi. In addition, Mansell has scored Duncan Jones’ directorial debut Moon, Park Chan-wook&#8217;s 2013 thriller Stoker, Dito Montiel&#8217;s Man Down (out fall 2015) and Ben Wheatley&#8217;s upcoming High-Rise.

Clint Mansell

Composer Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina) Talks with Composer Clint Mansell (Noah) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Michael Mohan’s new film, the erotic thriller <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CSFX3NP/?ref=DVM_US_DL_SL_GO_AST_21VOYR_mkw_sTXIQHLhA-dc_pcrid_544725152548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Voyeurs</a>, starring Sydney Sweeney, Justice Smith, Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo, is out now on Amazon Prime Video. Mohan received critical acclaim for his short film Pink Grapefruit, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Short at SXSW Film Festival. He co-created and executive produced the Netflix original series Everything Sucks!, which he also directed. This ’90s-set coming-of-age series, which also stars Sydney Sweeney, became an instant cult favorite, as many LGBTQ+ youth across the globe still use it as a tool to help them come out to their parents. Additionally, Michael wrote and directed the independent film Save the Date starring Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, and Martin Starr, which premiered in competition at Sundance and later released by IFC Films. Previously, Michael was the senior coordinator at the Sundance Writing and Directing Labs, under Michelle Satter. Films developed during his time there include Taika Waititi&#8217;s Boy, Cary Fukunaga&#8217;s Sin Nombre, and Dee Rees&#8217; Pariah.

Michael Mohan

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America

Aaron Stewart-Ahn lives in NYC. He is the co-writer of Mandy. He is currently working on Thor for Marvel Comics and a documentary about police brutality. In between film projects he works in bicycle shops and as an occasional film journalist.

Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Aaron Stewart-Ahn Talks His 25-Year Relationship with Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World

John Magary grew up in Dallas. He attended Williams College and Columbia University. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/themendfilm" target="_blank">The Mend</a>, a feature film he wrote and directed, premiered this year at SXSW. His films as director and/or editor have screened at Sundance, BAMCinemaFest, San Francisco, Maryland, Edinburgh, and New Directors/New Films. He lives in New York City.

John Magary

John Magary (The Mend) Talks Joel Edgerton’s The Gift

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmakers known for their innovative work blending idiosyncratic real-life characters and finely honed intelligent stories. Their films include the 2003 Sundance-winning American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti; the 2011 HBO movie Cinema Verite, with Diane Lane, James Gandolfini and Tim Robbins; Girl Most Likely (2012), starring Kristen Wiig; and 2010&#8217;s The Extra Man, with Kevin Kline and Paul Dano.

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (Ten Thousand Saints) Talk Bobcat Goldthwait’s Call Me Lucky

Jim Strouse is from Goshen, Indiana. Howard Hawks was also from Goshen, Indiana. Jim Strouse does not think he&#8217;s as good as Howard Hawks nor ever will be. He just thought it was an interesting coincidence. His film People Places Things is currently available on Amazon Prime. And The Incredible Jessica James is on Netflix. You can find his cartoons <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jimdrewthis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@jimdrewthis</a> on Insta and/or <a href="http://jimstrouse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="http://jimstrouse.com">jimstrouse.com</a>.