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Director Matthew Hamachek is a documentary filmmaker whose films have been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Emmy Awards.<a href="https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/tiger" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Tiger</a>, his two-part documentary directed with Matthew Heinemann on the rise, fall, and epic comeback of global icon Tiger Woods, will air on HBO on January 10 and 17. He has also won two Sundance Film Festival Awards for editing and writing the Oscar- and WGA-nominated If a Tree Falls and Gideon’s Army. Hamachek produced, wrote, and edited the acclaimed film Amanda Knox. In addition, he edited and produced the Oscar-nominated film Cartel Land, and edited the Emmy-nominated Meet the Patels, The Fourth Estate, Mistaken for Strangers and Racing Dreams.

Matthew Hamachek

Film

What I Learned Working on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Bryan Fogel’s latest documentary, <a href="https://thedissident.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Dissident</a>, about the shocking murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is in select theaters on December 25 and available on demand on January 8 through Briarcliff Entertainment. For his previous film, Icarus, Fogel won the Academy Award for Best Documentary and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Documentary, and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, three Emmys and the DGA Award for Best Direction. Fogel began his career pursuing stand-up comedy and acting. He developed, co-wrote, and starred in the Off-Broadway comedy Jewtopia and directed the feature film adaptation.

Bryan Fogel

Best of 2020: Bryan Fogel on ZeroZeroZero

Filmmakers

The 2020 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors’ Top Films of the Year

The 2020 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors Share Their Top 10 Movies of the Year

Two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner Chris Sullivan earned his first individual Emmy nomination last September for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on NBC’s flagship family drama This is Us. While his fan-favorite character Toby introduced Chris to the households and hearts of many, he has been working for a number of years, from his incognito Taserface in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy 2 to his Irish ambulance driver Tom Cleary in Showtime’s The Knick and his oxycontin addicted Joe in HBO’s Camping. He is also a musician who plays under the pseudonym Joseph the Spouse and his album Six Feet From Under, made with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, is now out. He recently collaborated on the Country Pop/EDM song “Divided” with Shane Patterson, and also hosts a podcast with Michael Rosenbaum, In Love With…, which analyzes the universal language of love in all of its avenues. (Photo by Maarten de Boer/NBC.)

Chris Sullivan

Find Your Creative Passion and Follow It

Katherine Fairfax Wright is the director, editor, and cinematographer of the feature-length documentaries Behind The Curtain: Todrick Hall and Call Me Kuchu (in collaboration with Malika Zouhali-Worrall). She produced the Netflix drama Imperial Dreams as well as Gabi on the Roof in July. She has also directed branded content for companies such as McDonald’s, Pantone, The Standard Hotel and Perrier-Jouët champagne and made political spots for organizations such as ACRONYM, the Democratic Coalition and Red Wine &amp; Blue. Her print and video work has been published by The New York Times, Human Rights Watch, CNN and The Huffington Post. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents, the Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship, the Film Independent Documentary Lab, The Garrett Scott Development Grant, and the Film Independent Producing Lab. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Katherine was raised in Los Angeles and graduated with a double-major in Film Studies and Anthropology from Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles and is currently developing a scripted feature.

Katherine Fairfax Wright

Remote Control: How the World’s Youngest Voting Evangelist Came to Be

Jim Gaffigan is a four-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, two-time Emmy-winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. His latest film, Most Wanted, in which he stars as Glen Picker, is now in theaters and on demand. Gaffigan’s many film credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers, Super Troopers 2, and Chappaquiddick, and his recent movies include Troop Zero, Them That Follow, Light From Light, Being Frank, Drunk Parents and American Dreamer. He released his seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, in 2019 through Amazon, which also the home for his latest special, Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist. In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob’s Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law &amp; Order. Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children. (Picture by Robyn Von Swank.)

Jim Gaffigan

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Jim Gaffigan is Getting Back to His Gardening Roots

Just for the record, I started making films when I was 17 in 1968 and have never stopped for 1 minute and am not planning to.

Abel Ferrara

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Abel Ferrara on the Films of John Cassavetes

Shannon Plumb has shot over 200 short films, which have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and on international screens. She started by shooting herself as various characters, acting out three-minute situations using humor and silence as her vehicles for storytelling. In 2013, her first feature film, Towheads, premiered at MoMA as part of New Directors / New Films; it is now streaming on the <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/towheads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Criterion Channel</a>. You can see her short films at <a href="http://shannonplumb.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shannonplumb.com</a> and Towheads is available on Netflix and iTunes. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, director Derek Cianfrance, and their two sons.

Shannon Plumb

Revisited: Derek Cianfrance in Quarantine Finishing I Know This Much Is True

Henry Butash is a New York-based filmmaker who began his career in the editing room with Academy Award-nominated director Terrence Malick, with whom he worked on several films including Knight of Cups (2015), Voyage of Time (2016) and Song to Song (2017). He was also an assistant editor on Swallow (2020), directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis and starring Haley Bennet. Most recently, he wrote and directed his first feature film, The Atlantic City Story (2020), starring Jessica Hecht (Friends, Breaking Bad, Succession) and Grammy Award-winner Mike Faist (Dear Evan Hansen, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s West Side Story). The film, which was inspired by Henry’s own memories growing up in the state of New Jersey, is <a href="https://dff.eventive.org/films/5f63c1c45944b3005c84b9d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streaming online</a> as part of the Denver Film Festival until November 8, 2020.

Henry Butash

Revisited: What I Learned Working with Terrence Malick

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer and producer for Desus &amp; Mero on Showtime. Previously, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he earned four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three WGA Awards. In 2016, Josh made his late night standup debut on Conan, and he has also performed on Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Gondelman is the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results and the co-author (along with Joe Berkowitz) of the book You Blew It, and has become a regular panelist on NPR mainstay Wait Wait&#8230; Don&#8217;t Tell Me! In Spring 2020, Gondelman launched his own podcast Make My Day, a comedy game show. Josh has written for Fuse TV’s Billy On The Street and was the co-creator of the popular Modern Seinfeld Twitter account. He has released the comedy albums Dancing on a Weeknight, Physical Whisper (which debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts) and Everything’s the Best, and his writing has appeared in prestigious publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine and The New Yorker. (Photo by Mindy Tucker.)

Josh Gondelman

Revisited: I Guess a 30-Year-Old Beastie Boys Record Is My Best Friend Now?

Darren Aronofsky is the director of π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah and mother!.