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Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers are a writing/filmmaking team, who have made four films together under Drama House Pictures. Their first feature film, Voyeur, which they made for $4,000 while undergraduates at Yale, is now on Amazon Prime and won Best US Feature and Audience Award at the 2020 SoHo International Film Festival. Their short film The Compound won the Special Jury Prize at the Chelsea Film Festival in 2021 and their comedy pilot, Victor Versus the Metaverse, won Best TV Pilot at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Their second feature, Floating Carousel will have its world premiere at the <a href="https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-film-guide?filmId=687e4450e65ffc8913359594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woodstock Film Festival</a> on October 17. They are represented by UTA and currently developing a feature with Star Thrower Entertainment (King Richard, The Post, Ingrid Goes West).

Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers

Film

Left Swipe, Right Script: How a Dating App Mishap Became a Film

Martha Stephens’ latest feature, To the Stars, a ‘60s-set coming-of-age drama starring Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman and Tony Hale, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and is available on VOD. Stephens is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts directing program. Her micro-budget feature films Passenger Pigeons (2010) and Pilgrim Song (2012) both premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. With longtime friend Aaron Katz, Stephens co-wrote and co-directed Land Ho! which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics and won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards. (Picture Kyle Kaplan.)

Martha Stephens

How the Parental Dating Scene of the 1980s Led Me to Direct To the Stars

<div>Anna Roisman is a comedian, host, writer and actor in NYC. Anna is known for hosting <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hq-trivia/id1232278996" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hq-trivia/id1232278996&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181960000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH9YAQx744TYeWHz8yK0Wk_gzgKQQ">HQ Trivia</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTPd4Xj7Tw" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DknTPd4Xj7Tw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2eIGLjVqgZSoksxB4hnL7iax-eg">HQ Words</a> on the Emmy-Nominated app. She is a regular comedian on the Buzzfeed series, &#8220;Did You See This?&#8221; Anna’s work has been featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, New York TV Festival, Just For Laughs in Montreal, People magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Huffington Post, Funny Or Die, Elite Daily, and more. She is the creator and host of the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unemployed-with-anna-roisman/id1489650462" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unemployed-with-anna-roisman/id1489650462&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSiqdfisEICLEew_TJ5rJX2dl9og">Unemployed With Anna Roisman</a>, and co-producer and host of <a href="http://www.quickiefest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.quickiefest.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNY-eLhJkHX0AEO1cFbHje2_TaNQ">Quickie Fest: The One Minute Movie Festival</a> in NYC. She writes a bad movie column called <a href="https://talkhouse.com/tag/am-i-the-only-one-who-loves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Am I The Only One Who Loves&#8230;&#8221;</a> for Talkhouse. She also likes good movies too! Anna performs standup comedy and sings all over. For comedy videos, reels, and press, check out <a href="http://www.annaroisman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.annaroisman.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608134181961000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG0c3bq5yZQli14Bq6ID3gvmfcjqQ">AnnaRoisman.com</a>.</div>

Anna Roisman

Second Date Movies That Will Make Your Partner Fall for You

Born and raised in the border city of Chula Vista, California, Jackie Mendoza blends the cultural influences of her hometown and her motherland of Tijuana, Mexico, creating eccentric pop, Latin-driven dance beats, and vibrant soundscapes. She’s been involved in music since she was young, listening to Latin-pop songs at family parties, and playing in bands in high school. It wasn’t until she took a course for Ableton in college that she discovered an avid interest in producing and making beats. Since then, Mendoza has been experimenting with electronic ukulele-based pop, expanding the sound to its maximum potential by layering it with beats while singing in both English and Spanish.
Mendoza’s LuvHz EP is a six track exploration of love and relationships through personal experiences and observations. She recorded the EP with Rusty Santos (Panda Bear’s Buoys), a collaborator that Mendoza quickly realized she had many parallels with. Both have lived in LA, NY, and Mexico and have an appreciation for Latin producers and Reggaeton artists, sounds that perfectly translated into Mendoza’s music.
(Photo Credit: Tayo Oyekan)

Jackie Mendoza

Music

Three Great Things: Jackie Mendoza

Zohra Atash is a singer, songwriter and musician. Her projects are <a href="http://azarswan.com/" target="_blank">Azar Swan</a> and <a href="http://religioustodamn.tumblr.com/">Religious to Damn</a>. She is an irregular columnist at <a href="http://slutist.com/" target="_blank">slutist.com</a>. Her family founded and runs the <a href="http://www.nooristanfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Nooristan Foundation</a>. You can follow Azar Swan on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/azarswan" target="_blank">here</a>.
Talkhouse Contributing Writer Zachary Lipez is the former singer for Freshkills and the current singer of Publicist UK. He writes the “Adult Problems” column for Noisey/VICE. He also contributes to Hazlitt, MySpace, and Vol.1 Brooklyn. His most recent book, with Nick Zinner and Stacey Wakefield, is Please Take Me Off the Guest List (Akashic Books, 2010). He tends bar at 124 Rabbit Club. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ZacharyLipez">here</a>.
(photo credit: Julia Comita)

Zohra Atash and Zachary Lipez

On Creating as a Couple — and Staying Messy and Busily Romantic

Jordan Beckett is a member of Bootstraps. &nbsp;You can follow Bootstraps on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/bootstrapsmusic">here</a>.

Jordan Beckett

Jordan Beckett (Bootstraps) Talks Conor Oberst’s Upside Down Mountain

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