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Lorna Tucker cut her teeth working behind the camera and jumping on tour buses with rock bands such as Unkle, Lupe Fiasco, The Cult and Queens of The Stone Age creating tour videos and music promos. She then moved into longer format storytelling, directing documentaries, writing scripts and creating more experimental video art projects for the likes of Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Nike. Her first feature documentary, <a href="http://www.viviennewestwoodfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westwood – Punk Icon Activist</a>, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is being released by Greenwich Entertainment on June 8. This year will also see the release of <a href="https://www.amamovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amá</a>, a feature documentary about the sterilization abuses of Native American women across the United States during the last 60 years, which because of its socially sensitive nature has taken a decade to bring to fruition. Tucker was recently <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/entertainment/a20409129/meet-5-breakout-female-film-makers-of-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hailed</a> by Harper&#8217;s Bazaar as one of the top five breakout female filmmakers of 2018.

Lorna Tucker

Film

Overnight Success Takes a Long Time to Happen

Tommy Swerdlow is a self-expresser from the old school. He’s a poet-screenwriter-actor-director-teacher, whatever he can get his hands on. He wrote a movie called Cool Runnings that people seemed to like, and a few others as well, including Little Giants and Snow Dogs. Swerdlow was the uncredited first writer on the movie Shrek and came up with Donkey. He does not receive residuals; it is a source of great pain and trauma. Swerdlow also created the television series Brutally Normal with his old partner Michael Goldberg, which aired on the WB in 2000. You never saw it, but it was good. Swerdlow was a stalwart on the briefly thriving L.A. poetry scene of the early ‘90s. His poetry CD Prisoner of the Gifted Sleep was released on New Alliance records, and poems are featured on various compilation CDs and in a lot of magazines. He considers himself a poet first and foremost, which is pretty obnoxious but has some truth to it. His movie A Thousand Junkies, which co-wrote, directed and co-stars in will be released in January 2018.

Tommy Swerdlow

Remembering Blake Heron: Death Imitates Art

TJ Bowen is a writer and actor who lives in Los Angeles. He wrote and acted in A Thousand Junkies, which comes out through the Orchard in January 2018. While researching and preparing for this project TJ went through 7 rehabs, 14 sober livings, over a thousand AA meetings, and was arrested 3 times.

TJ Bowen

Remembering Blake Heron: Beautiful and Angry and Sad and Funny and Wild

Charlene deGuzman first garnered attention from tweeting her self-deprecating thoughts as @charstarlene and went on to write and star in videos on YouTube, and her most popular being the viral hit I Forgot My Phone. As a sex and love addict currently in recovery, Charlene&rsquo;s intention for the rest of her life is to bring awareness to sex and love addiction, and to help people feel got and less alone through all of her creative adventures.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603048956/unlovable?ref=filmpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unlovable</a>, which she wrote and stars in, will have its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 10.

Charlene deGuzman

Some of My Best Friends are Movies

Alix Lambert is a filmmaker, photographer and writer living in NYC. Her films include the Independent Spirit Award-nominated The Mark of Cain, Bayou Blue and Mentor, and she has also directed shorts and web series. She is currently in production on Goodbye, Fat Larry. Lambert is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos and Crime. Learn more about her work <a href="http://pinkghettoproductions.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Alix Lambert

Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain) Talks Adam Salky’s I Smile Back

Claire Beaudreault&nbsp;a.k.a. Clara Bizna$$, is a rapper (from the group Hand Job Academy), writer, nail artist and multi-hyphenate living on the Brooklyn/Queens border. New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-, Manila- and West Virginia-bred, she moved to NYC a decade ago with two suitcases and $1,000. Bylines include BarkPost, Bust, Salon, Brokelyn and xoJane. She has got a Chihuahua, a Captain Beefheart tattoo and once played a hooker on SVU. Her religion is karaoke.&nbsp;Follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/ClaraBiznass" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/clarabiznass/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. (photo credit:&nbsp;Hayleigh Hatcher)

Clara Bizna$$

Music

Clara Bizna$$ (Hand Job Academy) Talks Demi Lovato’s Confident

Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma Entertainment, directed many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger, The Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, Tromeo &amp; Juliet and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Kaufman has written six books and presented his “Make Your Own Damn Movie” masterclasses globally. His latest film, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1, produced in association with Starz, premiered in 2014 and screened in The Contenders series at MoMA. He is currently working on Return to Nuke &#8216;Em High Vol. 2 and The Toxic Avenger Part V.

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