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Joslyn Jensen is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and actor. She was a guest writer and star of an episode in Linas Phillips&rsquo; web-series The Ride, produced by Mark and Jay Duplass (Sundance 2020). She performed original songs and was featured in an episode of CollegeHumor&rsquo;s Downbeat. For her acting work in Without (2012), she won Best Actress awards at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Mar del Plata Film Festival, also receiving special jury prizes from the Florida Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival. Other acting credits include: Funny Bunny (SXSW, 2015), Jackrabbit (Tribeca Film Festival, 2015) and Driftwood (Narrative Feature Winner, Slamdance Film Festival, 2016). (Image by Reto Sterchi.)

Joslyn Jensen

Film

Not My Type: Actors in Quarantine

Twice SAG Award-nominated, Jenna Lyng Adams works both in front and behind the camera as an actor and producer in Los Angeles. The pandemic thriller Before the Fire, which she stars in and also wrote, is out now in virtual cinemas and digital/VOD through Dark Sky Films. She has produced music videos for major artists and digital content for a long list of big brands garnering millions of views online. Her most notable acting roles include the Golden Globe-winning Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method by Chuck Lorre with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin and indie film Uncle John (official SXSW selection) with John Ashton and Alex Moffat. Jenna is currently penning a dark comedy TV pilot for HBO Max called So Much. She is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston. (Image by Jackson Adams.)

Jenna Lyng Adams

Parrots and Pandemics

Laura Hunter Drago is a producer living in Los Angeles, California. Originally from a small town in Virginia, Laura grew up performing in theatre both in school and professionally. She trained as an actress at New York University&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company School and the Lee Strasberg Institute. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of <a href="http://msinthebiz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ms. in the Biz</a>, a website founded by Helenna Santos that provides resources for female entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry, and co-founder of <a href="http://www.newgirlpictures.com/">New Girl Pictures</a> with one of her best friends from her high school theatre days, Samantha Macher. Their production company focuses on getting women into positions both in front of and behind the camera early in their careers. Her first feature film, <a href="https://www.tothenewgirl.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">To the New Girl</a>, which was made by an all-female cast and creative team, is released on VOD on August 11, 2020.

Laura Hunter Drago

From Competition to Collaboration: How Championing Women in Film Changed My Perspective

James D’Arcy is an actor, writer, and director; <a href="https://www.madeinitaly.movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Made in Italy</a>, his feature directorial debut starring Micheál Richardson, Liam Neeson and Lindsay Duncan, is out now through IFC Films. D’Arcy is perhaps best known for playing Edwin Jarvis in the Marvel TV series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. Other television credits include Those Who Kill, alongside Chloë Sevigny, Broadchurch opposite Olivia Colman, and Homeland with Claire Danes. On the big screen, James was in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s Dunkirk, Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman with Michael Fassbender and J.K. Simmons, and Jupiter Ascending and Cloud Atlas, both for the Wachowskis. He can also be seen in Madonna&#8217;s W.E. and Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In 2016, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Chicken / Egg, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Hayley Atwell.

James D’Arcy

The Way Forward: James D’Arcy Didn’t Finish His Pandemic Movie, But is Now Back Shooting in Rome

Sheila Vand is an extremely creative and expressive performance artist and actor. She can currently be seen in Dave Franco’s directorial debut, The Rental, currently #1 at the box office. Earlier this summer, she co-starred in TNT&#8217;s Snowpiercer opposite Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connolly. Last year, she starred in a thrilling off-off-Broadway show, Nylon, written by Sofia Alverez. Additional credits include the 2018 Sundance Film Festival NEXT Award winner We The Animals, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Wave, Aardvark, Argo, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Women Who Kill and XX. Vand made her Broadway debut opposite Robin Williams as Hadja in Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; she starred in the Disney Hall&#8217;s 10th Anniversary LA Philharmonic staging of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels for Esa Pekka Salonen, had her original performance piece Sneaky Nietzche mounted at LACMA and co-created the award-winning visual art series MILK: what will you make of me? with TED fellow Alexa Meade, which toured throughout Europe. This series served as the inspiration for Ariana Grande’s recent music video for “God Is A Woman,” on which Grande worked with Vand and Meade.

Sheila Vand

Racist?

Not My Type: Uncut Jos

Tuppence Middleton is an English actress who currently stars as Alwyn in the inspiring real-life drama Fisherman’s Friends, opposite Daniel Mays, James Purefoy and David Hayman, which is now available on demand. She is well-known for her performances in such TV series as War and Peace, Dickensian, The Lady Vanishes and the Wachowskis’ Netflix show Sense8, and her film work includes roles in the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, Danny Boyle’s Trance, and The Imitation Game and The Current War, both opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. Her upcoming projects include Shadowplay, the new thriller from The Bridge creator Måns Mårlind, and Mank, starring Gary Oldman and directed by David Fincher, about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. (Photo by Rob Harper.)

Tuppence Middleton

The Way Forward: Tuppence Middleton on Painting During Lockdown and Her Plans to Write and Direct

Andrew Ahn is a Korean-American filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles. His latest film, the drama <a href="https://filmrise.com/film/driveways" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Driveways</a>, starring Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye and Brian Dennehy, is available on VOD from May 7. His feature debut Spa Night premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically by Strand Releasing and won Ahn the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2017. The TV show This Close, which Ahn directed, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on Sundance Now. (Photo by Mitch Dao.)

Andrew Ahn

Making the Past Present

Joshua Leonard and Jess Weixler love each other a lot and will make movies together until they die.

Joshua Leonard and Jess Weixler

He Said / She Said

Originally from India, Jenna Mattison Mirza moved to Chicago at seven years old. She started her career in Chicago at 14, appearing in theatre productions, writing short stories and modeling. Upon her move to Los Angeles, Jenna wrote her first screenplay titled Fish Without a Bicycle. The movie went into production in 2003 and had a limited U.S. theatrical release, thus kickstarting her career as a writer, producer and actress. In 2007, her acting career was cut short, after signing on to play Brenda Starr, Reporter in a TV series based on the iconic comic strip character, when she sustained an injury that would force her into five years of surgeries and rehabilitation. Her first project back, For the Love of Money, a Jewish gangster biopic starring James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Edward Furlong and Jeffrey Tambor which she wrote and produced, was released by Lionsgate. Her most recent film, The Sound starring Rose McGowan and Christopher Lloyd, was released by MGM&#8217;s Orion and Samuel Goldwyn in select theaters to critical acclaim. Jenna is currently writing for television and releasing her fourth installment of her Liza Radley Housewife Detective best-selling mystery novel series.

Jenna Mattison Mirza

How I Faked My Race to Make It in Hollywood

Lone Scherfig is a Danish writer and director. Her many acclaimed films include Italian for Beginners, the fifth official &ldquo;Dogma&rdquo; film, which won three awards at the Berlin International Film Festival; her first English-language film, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself; and the 2010 movie An Education, which won Sundance&#8217;s audience award and received nine BAFTA nominations and three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby) and Best Actress (Carey Mulligan). Her latest film, The Kindness of Strangers, starring Zoe Kazan, Tahar Rahim, Andrea Riseborough, Bill Nighy, Caleb Landry Jones, and Jay Baruchel, is in select theaters through Vertical Entertainment from February 14.

Lone Scherfig

The Final Scene

Krys Marshall has wasted no time establishing herself as a promising young actress, gaining respect and accolades for her hard work on the stage and screen. She can currently be seen as a series regular in the AppleTV+ series For All Mankind playing the role of Danielle Poole, a NASA engineer and astronaut. The series explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended, and Krys’ character Danielle is the first African-American astronaut of NASA and the first black woman to set foot on the moon. They are currently filming the show’s second season. When not working, Krys loves to travel, and has visited more than 50 countries, across five continents.

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