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Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director. She is best-known for films such as Gas, Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Four Rooms (1995) and Grace of My Heart (1996), and is currently a prolific TV director, helming episodes of shows such as Sex and the City, The L Word, The Mentalist and Orange is the New Black. A winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, she is also a Distinguished Professor in the Film And Media Studies Department at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Allison Anders

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Allison Anders (Grace of My Heart) Talks with Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Alix Lambert is a filmmaker, photographer and writer living in NYC. Her films include the Independent Spirit Award-nominated The Mark of Cain, Bayou Blue and Mentor, and she has also directed shorts and web series. She is currently in production on Goodbye, Fat Larry. Lambert is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos and Crime. Learn more about her work <a href="http://pinkghettoproductions.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Alix Lambert

Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain) Talks Eskil Vogt’s Blind

Chad Hartigan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking. In 2008, he wrote and directed his first feature, Luke and Brie are on a First Date, which premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and was remade for Latin American audiences in 2013 as Luna en Leo. His second feature, This is Martin Bonner, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best of NEXT and went on to also win the John Cassavetes Award at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards. His third feature, Morris From America, starring Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson and Carla Juri, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and a Special Jury Award for Robinson. It was released by A24, and received both Gotham and Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Chad Hartigan

Chad Hartigan (This is Martin Bonner) Talks Discovering His True Self Through Jim Carrey and Meet Joe Black

William Dickerson is an award-winning screenwriter, director and author whose debut feature, Detour, was released theatrically and On Demand in 2013. He self-released his metafictional satire, The Mirror, and recently completed his third feature, Don’t Look Back. His first book, No Alternative, was declared, “a sympathetic coming-of-age story deeply embedded in ‘90s music” by Kirkus Reviews and his latest, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DETOUR-Hollywood-Direct-Microbudget-matter/dp/0985188634" target="_blank">Detour: Hollywood &#8211; How to Direct a Microbudget Film (or any film, for that matter)</a> is out now. Learn more at his <a href="http://www.williamdickersonfilmmaker.com" target="_blank">official site</a>.

William Dickerson

William Dickerson (Detour) Talks Paul Haggis and David Simon’s Show Me A Hero

Benny Safdie was born and raised in New York City, in both Queens and Manhattan. In another world he might have been a physicist, but in this one he is a filmmaker. He usually collaborates with his brother Josh. Together they have released films all over the world, premiering at international festivals like Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, New York, etc. The most recent film, Heaven Knows What, is currently in release with RADiUS-TWC and available now on iTunes and on 9/15 everywhere else.

Benny Safdie

Benny Safdie (Heaven Knows What) Talks Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Jeff Reichert is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and critic based in Brooklyn.

Jeff Reichert

Jeff Reichert (Remote Area Medical) Talks Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani’s I Touched All Your Stuff

Kazik Radwanski was born in Toronto. He studied filmmaking at Ryerson University and co-founded the film production company <a href="http://mdff.ca/" target="_blank">MDFF</a>. He directed the shorts Princess Margaret Blvd., Out in that Deep Blue Sea and Green Crayons before making his feature debut with Tower in 2012. His latest feature, How Heavy This Hammer, has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.

Kazik Radwanski

Kazik Radwanski (Tower) Talks Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth

Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. Recently there have been retrospectives of his films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and at MoMA in New York City. His latest feature, The Misandrists, will be released in 2018.

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce (Gerontophilia) Talks Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother

Brian Trenchard-Smith has been burning to make genre films ever since seeing Hitchcock’s Vertigo at age 13. So far he has directed 42 Crimes Against Cinema, and counting. (He’s an enthusiastic recidivist.) His cult favorites include The Man from Hong Kong, Turkey Shoot, BMX Bandits, Stunt Rock, The Siege of Firebase Gloria. His memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ADVENTURES-MOVIE-TRADE-MEDWIN-TRENCHARD-SMITH/dp/B08JVLC35P/ref=asc_df_B08JVLC35P/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=475866653660&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=15351232785781447577&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9004367&amp;hvtargid=pla-972105956148&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adventures in the B Movie Trade</a>, is now available as an e-book.

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Brian Trenchard-Smith (BMX Bandits) Talks the Unique Ingenuity of the Stones… the Other Stones.

Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Town Hall, was broadcast on PBS in 2014. She produced the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer, which premiered at Sundance in 2013, and is currently producing The Reagan Years, an all-archival film directed by Pacho Velez.

Sierra Pettengill

Producer Sierra Pettengill (Cutie and the Boxer) Talks J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry

Yung Chang is the multi-award-winning director of Up the Yangtze《沿江而上》(2007), China Heavyweight《千錘百鍊》(2012), The Fruit Hunters (2013) and Gatekeeper (2016). In 2015, Chang was a Fellow at the prestigious Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs, where he worked on his first dramatic feature, Eggplant.. Chang’s films have screened at international film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, TIFF, and IDFA, and have played theatrically in cinemas around the world. His latest feature documentary, <a href="https://www.kimstim.com/film/this-is-not-a-movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Is Not a Movie</a>, which follows the controversial Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, is now screening virtually and at select theaters around the country. (Photo by Richmond Lam.)

Yung Chang

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s Turbo Kid

Milcho Manchevski has directed four features, 50 short films, and an episode of The Wire, winning over 40 international awards (Golden Lion in Venice, Independent Spirit Award, FIPRESCI, Academy Award nomination, etc.). The New York Times included Manchevski’s Before the Rain on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made and Rolling Stone put his music video “Tennessee” on its list of best 100 videos ever. He lives in New York, where he writes fiction and essays, takes photographs, creates art and teaches. Discover more at his <a href="http://manchevski.com" target="_blank">official site</a>.