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Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, <a href="http://ofherbeauty.com">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,</a> which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.

Terence Nance

Jeremy Xido is a filmmaker and actor whose latest documentary, <a href="https://cabula6.org/sonsofdetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sons of Detroit</a>, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQeN8GOUnsc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genre-bending documentary</a> based partly on his childhood, premieres at <a href="https://www.docnyc.net/film/sons-of-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOC NYC</a> today. Originally from Detroit, Jeremy graduated cum laude in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, NY and trained at the Actor&#8217;s Studio. Working as a dancer, actor and filmmaker, he has performed and presented work around the world on stage, TV and in cinema. Currently he is starring in Pia Marais&#8217; new feature film, Transamazonia, which premiered in competition in Locarno, and Amazon MGM Studio&#8217;s new series, House of David. Jeremy&#8217;s film directing credits include the award-winning feature documentary <a href="http://deathmetalangola.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Death Metal Angola</a> (IFFRotterdam), the six-part series “Crime Europe,&#8221; and the short documentaries “Macondo,” &#8220;Dive,&#8221; and &#8220;Care,&#8221; in addition to several narrative shorts. Last year he also premiered the feature documentary <a href="https://cabula6.org/thebones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bones</a>, about the international dinosaur bone trade, which played at CPH/DOX, Hotdocs, Sydney and DC/DOX.

Jeremy Xido

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Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Jeremy Xido’s Death Metal Angola

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