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Jennifer Morrison&lt; is renowned for her exceptional talent as an actor, director, and producer, as she is gearing up to unleash her creative prowess as a director in the highly anticipated second installment of Peacock&#8217;s gripping limited series &lt;Dr. Death&lt;. You’ll remember Jennifer from her lead roles as Dr. Allison Cameron on the Emmy Award winning medical drama &lt;House,&lt; Emma Swan in &lt;Once Upon a Time&lt;, &lt;How I Met Your Mother&lt; and most recently a guest-starring role on &lt;This Is Us&lt;. She has previously directed for various projects, including the pilot of Peacock’s &lt;One of Us Is Lying&lt;, &lt;Euphoria&lt; and the 2017 comedy-drama film &lt;Sun Dogs&lt;, which was also produced through her production company, Apartment 3C Productions, which was launched in 2016. In addition to her directorial work, last year, Jennifer launched the book club, &lt;, via her production company, ,&lt; to spotlight previously unheard voices, authors with diverse backgrounds and generally writers who would not otherwise have the opportunity to be highlighted this way.

Jennifer Morrison

Film

Best of 2023: Jennifer Morrison on Welcome to Wrexham

Julia Marchese is a filmmaker, writer, actor, podcaster, film programmer, VHS Vixen &amp; film critic. She’s known for directing the award-winning feature documentary Out of Print, an acclaimed exploration of repertory cinema culture and film preservation. She also adapted Stephen King’s short story I Know What You Need into an award-winning short film. Julia co-hosts the podcasts Horror Movie Survival Guide, The Loser’s Club and JodoWOWsky, reviews a VHS from her rainbow wall every day on her social media channels and writes about cinema for Talkhouse. Her work frequently explores nostalgia, genre cinema, physical media culture, and the communal power of moviegoing. She is @juliacmarchese on all platforms.

Julia Marchese

Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

Jason Isaacs, who is currently playing Cary Grant in the BritBox series Archie, has won or been nominated for many awards including a Golden Globe, BAFTA, International Emmy, Critics&#8217; Circle, Satellite, SAG and Critics&#8217; Choice Awards amongst others. His extensive film credits include the Harry Potter film series, playing Lucius Malfoy; Armando lanucci&#8217;s The Death Of Stalin, The Patriot, Black Hawk Down, Fury, Green Zone, Event Horizon, Armageddon, The End of the Affair and Friends with Money. He also starred in Fran Kranz&#8217;s Mass opposite Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton and Reed Birney, with the film and Jason receiving multiple awards and nominations, including winning the Robert Altman Award at the 2022 Spirit Awards. On television, Jason was most recently seen in The Crowded Room for Apple TV+, in the cult hits The OA and Sex Education for Netflix, and as Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery. Previously he has starred in Case Histories, The State Within, The Curse of Steptoe, Civvies, Brotherhood, Awake and Dig, and has made guest appearances in The West Wing and Entourage, amongst others. (Photo by David Reiss.)

Jason Isaacs

Best of 2023: Jason Isaacs on Everything Now

Anna Zlokovic is an award-winning writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her work has screened internationally at festivals including Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance Film Festival, and Fantasia Film Festival. Anna was a fellow of Tribeca and Chanel&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Filmmaker Program: Through Her Lens. Anna&#8217;s debut feature film, <a href="https://www.hulu.com/movie/appendage-5dee6ffc-dfb6-425e-b3b2-d665241e99b4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Appendage</a>, had its World Premiere at SXSW 2023 and is now streaming on Hulu. Anna was named one of IndieWire&#8217;s 28 Rising Female Filmmakers to Watch in 2023.

Anna Zlokovic

Thoughts on Suffering for Your Art

Brian Helgeland won the Academy Award for his screenwriting of L.A. Confidential. He was also nominated by the Academy for his writing of Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River. His directorial work includes the films Legend, starring Tom Hardy and Taron Egerton, 42, starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, and A Knight’s Tale, starring Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany. He is the writer of Tony Scott’s Man on Fire and Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone. Helgeland is also the recipient of the Writers Guild of America Award, the PEN Center Literary Award, the Edgar Alan Poe Award, the USC Scripter Award and the Sidney Lumet Award for Integrity in Entertainment. (Photo by Maarten de Boer.)

Brian Helgeland

Best of 2023: Brian Helgeland on Sahn’s The Mornings

Savannah Knoop is a New York City-based filmmaker, artist, and writer whose work travels between fiction and documentary, lived experience and imagined fantasy. They have performed and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. They adapted their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy (published with Seven Stories Press) into a feature-length film, co-written and directed by Justin Kelly, and starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Kelvin Harris Jr., Jim Sturgess, and Diane Kruger. J.T. Leroy was released in theaters in April 2019 by Universal Pictures Content Group, is currently available On Demand and Digital and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on June 4th.

Savannah Knoop

Tour de North Brooklyn

Talia Ryder is currently starring opposite Jacob Elordi, Ayo Adebiri, Simon Rex and Jeremy O. Harris in Sean Price Williams’s directorial debut, The Sweet East, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. One of Sundance 2020’s break-out stars, she was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award and a Critics’ Choice Award as the co-lead of Eliza Hittman’s critically acclaimed Never Rarely Sometimes Always. She was recently seen in Dumb Money, opposite Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Sebastian Stan and Shailene Woodley. Her other film credits include Do Revenge with Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated West Side Story, and Mariama Diallo’s thriller Master, opposite Regina Hall, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022.

Talia Ryder

Best of 2023: Talia Ryder on The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

Chase Joliet is an actor and filmmaker from Dallas, Texas, whose debut feature as writer-director, Grapefruit, in which he stars opposite Rosanna Arquette and Steph Barkley, is now on the festival circuit. He worked with legendary director Terrence Malick for a number of years on To the Wonder, Voyage of Time and Song to Song, after which he produced his first independent feature film, Krisha, which won SXSW Grand Jury award and audience award before playing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Chase won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2016 Indie Spirit awards and went on to help develop Trey Edward Shults’ second feature, It Comes at Night. Chase’s short film directorial debut, the comedic short Everything Mattress, won multiple audience awards and is currently being sold in European Territories.

Chase Joliet

Finding Compassion, or Why My Mom is My Tripwire

Jeanie Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personal documentary films and artworks. Her focus is on creating compelling portraits and is obsessed with telling other people’s stories. Her work is known for its innovative approach to engaging with audiences in meaningful ways. Her documentaries includes Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, Sound It Out, Goth Cruise and Teenland. Her latest film, <a href="https://firehouse.dctvny.org/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=406302~2998286f-8e4b-4c31-9017-dcced8ffebb3&amp;_gl=1*1bdd0ra*_gcl_au*NTI5MTY4NDI1LjE3MDE5ODQ5MDQ." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your Fat Friend</a>, is now playing at DCTV&#8217;s Firehouse Cinema in New York City. (Photo by Jo Irvine.)

Jeanie Finlay

Best of 2023: Jeanie Finlay on The Curse

Cedric Cheung-Lau’s debut feature, the Nepal-set drama <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/the-mountains-are-a-dream-that-call-to-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mountains are a Dream That Call to Me</a>, is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel. He is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and lighting director based in occupied Lenapehoking (New York City, USA). He spent nearly a decade developing The Mountains are a Dream that Call to Me, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2020. Prior to that, he directed a short, Topography of a Hotel, that premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival. His cinematography can be seen in the work of directors Wen Shipei, the brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri, Maggie Briggs and Federico Spiazzi whose works have shown at Cannes, Berlin, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, AFI Film Fest, and many others.

Cedric Cheung-Lau

A Memory of Home

Marcus Scribner is currently starring in the poignant family drama<a href="https://www.filmmovement.com/how-i-learned-to-fly" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> How I Learned to Fly</a>, also starring Lonnie Chavis, Cliff “Method Man” Smith and Cedric the Entertainer. He landed his first series regular role at the age of 13 on ABC&#8217;s hit comedy Black-Ish starring as Andre Jr opposite Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. Marcus has been nominated for multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, NAACP Image and Screen Actors Guild Awards as part of the ensemble cast, and in 2016 he received an individual NAACP Image award for Outstanding Performance by a Youth, a category in which he has been nominated every year for his work on the show. Transitioning into film, Marcus most recently starred in How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the book of the same name. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/46814879644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flickr</a>.)

Marcus Scribner

Best of 2023: Marcus Scribner on Joy Ride

Rob Schneider’s latest movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, which he directed and stars in with his real-life family, is out now on DVD and digital. After starting out a stand-up comedian, Schneider rose to prominence as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live, from 1988 to 1994. Following his departure from SNL, he went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and its 2005 sequel, The Animal (2001), The Hot Chick (2002), The Benchwarmers (2006) and Big Stan (2007). Between 2015 and 2017, he starred in three season’s of the autobiographical sitcom Real Rob and in 2019 launched the podcast See What Happens.