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An actress, director, writer and producer, Deborah Twiss came to New York City to study acting when she was 17 and quickly got involved in also writing and producing indie films. Her first feature, A Gun for Jennifer, went to over 27 film festivals and is a European cult hit. She then produced and starred in the indie Molotov Samba. Shortly after, with her 18-month old son in a stroller and her baby girl on her chest in a Bjorn, Deborah wrote, starred in and directed In-Between, a supernatural 9/11 thriller (available to view <a href="https://vimeo.com/161253024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>). She also wrote, starred in and was the supervising director on <a href="https://vimeo.com/94383987" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Cry From Within</a> starring Eric Roberts, Cathy Moriarty and James McCaffrey, to be followed by <a href="https://vimeo.com/127830560" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Confidence Game</a> (as writer/director/lead actress), featuring Sean Young, James McCaffrey and Robert Clohessy. In the past couple years, Deborah has begun the dive into the exciting world of episodics and is currently in production on the supernatural thriller <a href="https://vimeo.com/260325859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Beautiful Distraction</a> (starring Sean Young, Adrian Paul and Vivica Fox) as well as a dark comedy about the strip club world, <a href="https://youtu.be/kYknHQ2wNII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crazytown</a> (featuring Robert Funaro and Eric Roberts, among many others).

Deborah Twiss

Film

Creativity in Chaos

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

How I Swayed the 2004 Presidential Election with My Pro-Bush 9/11 Movie (Even Though I’m a Leftie)

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