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Mireille Enos can currently be seen in the third season of Amazon Prime’s action-thriller series, Hanna, opposite Esmé Creed-Miles, Dermot Mulroney and Ray Liotta. She is best known for her role opposite Brad Pitt in World War Z and for her acclaimed role as Detective Sarah Linden on The Killing. Her other TV credits include Good Omens, opposite Jon Hamm, Michael Sheen and David Tennant, Shonda Rhimes’ The Catch, and HBO’s Big Love, in which she played the breakthrough double role of twins JoDean and Kathy Marquart. Her film work includes the Blumhouse-produced The Lie, opposite Peter Sarsgaard and Joey King, Gangster Squad opposite Josh Brolin, the thriller Never Here, opposite the late Sam Shepard, and Atom Egoyan’s The Captive, starring Ryan Reynolds. She was Tony nominated for her role in the Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, opposite Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Mireille Enos

Film

Three Great Things: Mireille Enos

Isidore Bethel has taught preteens through UC Santa Cruz’s Stone Soup filmmaking workshop, undergraduate and graduate students at Sarah Lawrence College and Parsons Paris, and older filmmakers at La Fémis and UnionDocs. He has edited and produced seven features, including <a href="https://solatesosoon.oscilloscope.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">So Late So Soon</a>(which opens in New York on December 9), and directed two, Liam and Acts of Love.

Isidore Bethel

Play is a Very Serious Thing

Albert Birney is a Baltimore-based filmmaker. He has directed four feature films, The Beast Pageant (co-directed with Jon Moses), Sylvio and Strawberry Mansion (both co-directed with <a href="http://www.kentuckeraudley.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kentucker Audley</a>), and Tux and Fanny. Sylvio was named one of the 10 best films of 2017 by <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2017-in-review/the-best-movies-of-2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Yorker</a>. He recently finished making a Tux and Fanny <a href="https://abirney.com/Tux-and-Fanny-Video-Game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video game</a> with <a href="http://gabrielkoenig.com/ghosttime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriel Koenig</a>, which is now available from the Nintendo store and itch.io. He is currently animating part two of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tux_and_fanny/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tux and Fanny</a>.

Albert Birney

Dr. Mario or: How I Learned to Love Video Games Again and Accidentally Made One

Michael M. Bilandic is a New York-based filmmaker. His first feature, Happy Life, was called the &#8220;poor schlub&#8217;s High Fidelity&#8221; by Variety. His latest film, <a href="https://www.roxycinematribeca.com/blog/micheal-m-bilandic-retrospective-at-roxy-cinema-and-premiere-of-new-film-project-space-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Space 13</a>, opens on December 3 at The Roxy.

Michael M. Bilandic

reRunning Happy Life

Ryan Spahn is an actor, filmmaker and writer. He has been published by Rotten Tomatoes, Metro Weekly, USA Today, IntoMore, and American Theatre Magazine. As an actor, he can be seen in American Horror Story, Succession, The Bite, Chicago P.D., and Modern Love. Ryan is a graduate of Juilliard and is based in New York City. Go <a href="https://linktr.ee/RyanSpahn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> for more info.

Ryan Spahn

Make the Yuletide Gay

Devon Sawa is currently starring in the comedy horror <a href="https://screenmediafilms.net/film/3371/Black-Friday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Friday</a>, opposite Bruce Campbell, Devon Ivana Baquero and Michael Jai White. He made his film debut in Little Giants in 1994, played the title role as a human boy in Casper the following year and further made his name in the films Wild America, Idle Hands and Final Destination. In 2000, Sawa played the title character of the Eminem music video &#8220;Stan.&#8221; Among his many other TV and film credits, Sawa portrayed the role of Owen Elliott on The CW action drama series Nikita and starred in the thriller The Fanatic, directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, where he played Hunter Dunbar, an actor who is stalked by John Travolta’s Moose.

Devon Sawa

Three Great Things: Devon Sawa

Andy Ostroy is a film and television producer and director. His latest project, Adrienne, is an HBO documentary he produced and directed about his late wife, actor/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in 2006. Following her death, he produced Serious Moonlight, a script she&#8217;d written, and which starred Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton and was directed by Cheryl Hines. He&#8217;s working on producing a stage version of the script, and is also in development with a television series. He founded the Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2006 which supports female filmmakers with grants and scholarships. and serves as the organization’s executive director.

Andy Ostroy

My Journey to Adrienne

Pete Ohs writes, directs, shoots and edits. His latest film, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09L77C3SG/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youngstown</a>, is now streaming on Amazon Prime. He is a four-time Emmy-Award winner and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine&#8216;s &#8220;25 New Faces of Independent Film&#8221; for 2013. His feature-length sci-fi film Everything Beautiful Is Far Away stars Julia Garner &amp; Joseph Cross. premiered in competition at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award, was acquired by The Orchard and is currently available to stream online. He edited the features Beast Beast directed by Danny Madden, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and Olympic Dreams, starring Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas and directed by Jeremy Teicher, which premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and was named one of the 10 best films at the Festival by both Hollywood Reporter and Indiewire. He lives and works in Los Angeles. (Photo by Christian Sorensen Hansen.)

Pete Ohs

No Script. No Budget. No Crew. No Problem.

Krisha Fairchild is currently starring in the drama Freeland, which is now available on demand. She came out of her retirement to play the starring role in Trey Edward Shults’ debut feature, Krisha. Based on a true story, the film was hailed as one of the 10 best films ever made on addiction. It won top honors at American festivals SXSW, Denver, Nashville and Sidewalk, as well as the Taormina Festival in Italy, and Deauville in France, on the heels of its European premiere at Cannes in 2015. Her performance was lauded in feature articles in the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and many others. In 2016, she was honored to be selected as a part of the Great Performers issue of the New York Times Magazine. The film Krisha won Spirit and Gotham awards. She also played a lead in the series Butchers Block.

Krisha Fairchild

Three Great Things: Krisha Fairchild

Niav Conty is an active freelance director, cinematographer and screenwriter in New York City. Her award-winning films have travelled to festivals worldwide. She is a recipient of the Kodak Award for cinematography, and the prestigious Princess Grace Award. Small Time, her 2020 feature shot in rural Pennsylvania, is out now. It has won 9 awards, including the Spirit of Freedom Award, the EDA award for best female-directed feature, and four Best Feature awards. She is currently in post-production on her newest feature, Person Woman Man Camera Tv, about an interracial couple disintegrating during the 2020 pandemic. Read more at her official website, <a href="http://www.niav-film.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">niav-film.com</a>.

Niav Conty

Realer Than Reality

Actress and vocalist Beanie Feldstein is currently starring in <a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The H</a><a href="https://a24films.com/films/the-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">umans</a>, opposite Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun and June Squibb, and recently starred in and produced Ryan Murphy’s limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story, playing the role of Monica Lewinsky. Feldstein previously starred in Olivia Wilde’s hit comedy Booksmart, opposite Kaitlyn Dever, for which she received a 2020 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy, and in Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird, opposite Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. She made her feature film debut in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, alongside Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Chloe Grace Moretz and also starred in the comedies How to Build a Girl and The Female Brain, opposite Sofia Vergara, Cecily Strong and James Marsden. Feldstein made her Broadway debut in 2017 in the Bette Midler-led production Hello, Dolly! and in 2020 will play Fanny Brice in the 2022 Broadway production of Funny Girl.

Beanie Feldstein

Three Great Things: Beanie Feldstein

Mike Mills was born in Berkeley, California in 1966. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1989. Mills works as a filmmaker, graphic designer, and artist. Mills is best known for his independent films 20th Century Women (2016), Beginners (2011), and Thumbsucker (2005) as well as his exhibitions at the Alleged Gallery, which were documented in the book, exhibition and film Beautiful Losers. His latest film, <a href="https://a24films.com/films/cmon-cmon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C’mon C’mon</a>, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffman and Woody Norman, is out November 24 through A24 Films.