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Angus MacLachlan has written numerous plays, an 18-minute short film, Tater Tomater, directed by Phil Morrison, and the award-winning feature Junebug, which was selected for the Dramatic Competition for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and won a Special Jury Citation for Amy Adams, as well as her first Academy Award nomination. MacLachlan was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the film was listed on more than 50 Top 10 lists. His other screenplays include Stone, starring Robert DeNiro, and Fortroligheten, which won the Golden Goblet for Best Screenplay at the 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2013 he wrote and directed Goodbye to All That. The film debuted at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Actor for Paul Schneider. It was released by IFC and was chosen one of the Top 10 Films of 2014 by Brandon Harris of Indiewire and Filmmaker magazine. MacLachlan&#8217;s latest film, Abundant Acreage Available, starring Amy Ryan and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay. It <a href="https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/abundant-acreage-available.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opens</a> September 29 in NY.

Angus MacLachlan

Film

“And Where Did the Idea for the Film Come From?”

Born in 1981 in Copenhagen, Elvira Lind graduated from City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts in Cape Town in 2006, majoring in documentary film. She has worked within that field since directing and shooting documentaries of various lengths for TV, cinema, and web on 4 different continents. Elvira now lives and works out of New York, where she also writes on various fiction projects. Elvira&#8217;s first feature documentary, Songs for Alexis, competed at IDFA in 2014 and screened at a long list of international festivals; she received CPH:DOX new talent award in 2015; and her first international documentary TV series, Twiz and Tuck, launched on Viceland this year. Elvira&#8217;s second feature documentary, <a href="http://www.bobbijene.oscilloscope.net">Bobbi Jene</a>, premiered at Tribeca 2017 and is being released theatrically by Oscilloscope from September 22.

Elvira Lind

On Compulsive Home-Movie-Making During Loss, Birth and Hamlet

Jeremy Kagan is an international award winning filmmaker whose most recent work is the dramatic movie Shot, about what one bullet does to many lives. It starts its theatrical run on September 22 in selected cities. He has made 10 features, and won an Emmy and ACE award for his television work. He has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, is Chairperson of Special Projects that provides cultural and educational information for the 17,000 members of the Directors Guild of America, and he is a full tenured professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, recognized five years in a row as the best film school in the world. His books Directors Close Up, volumes 1 and 2, are published by Scarecrow Press, and his near-death experience is recorded in his illustrated eBook, My Death: A Personal Guidebook. Visit his <a href="http://theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official site</a> for more info.

Jeremy Kagan

The Night I Died That Changed Everything

Jack Dunphy is a filmmaker, animator, actor and writer from Chicago whose short films Serenity and Chekhov have played at Sundance, AFI and festivals around the world. His latest short, Bob&#8217;s Funeral, won Best Nonfiction Short Film at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. His new podcast, Revelations with Jack Dunphy, premieres on October 15. His short film Revelations premiered at Slamdance and went on to play the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, France. His short film Brontosaurus played the True/False, Nashville, Florida, Philadelphia and Cucalorus film festivals. He starred in Assholes (directed by Peter Vack) which won the audience award at SXSW. He co-wrote Stinking Heaven, which premiered at the International Festival of Rotterdam, with Nathan Silver, and wrote, edited and produced Silver’s The Great Pretender, which played Tribeca, AFI and festivals around the world. (Photo by Shutterstock.)

Jack Dunphy

“Everybody Dies Frustrated and Sad and That is Beautiful,” or How Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Helped Me Through a Shitty Time

Shannon Plumb has shot over 200 short films, which have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and on international screens. She started by shooting herself as various characters, acting out three-minute situations using humor and silence as her vehicles for storytelling. In 2013, her first feature film, Towheads, premiered at MoMA as part of New Directors / New Films; it is now streaming on the <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/towheads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Criterion Channel</a>. You can see her short films at <a href="http://shannonplumb.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shannonplumb.com</a> and Towheads is available on Netflix and iTunes. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, director Derek Cianfrance, and their two sons.

Shannon Plumb

Marjorie Prime and Memories of My Father (Still-Living)

Jeremy Bolm is the singer of Touché Amoré and Hesitation Wounds. He runs Secret Voice records, and recently released his second zine of his writings, Words From A Porch.

Jeremy Bolm

Music

Jeremy Bolm (Touché Amoré) on the Power of Kindness

Steven Sheil is a screenwriter and director. His first feature, Mum &amp; Dad, was released in 2008 and was described by Total Film as “one of the defining British horrors of its generation.” His second feature, the 2012 action-horror Dead Mine, was shot in Indonesia and starred an international cast. HBO Asia’s first original production, the film is distributed in the U.K. by eOne. He is also the co-writer of psychological drama Gozo, co-written and directed by Miranda Bowen for Bishop Films and due for release in 2016. He also works as a cinematographer, primarily with his wife, the artist and documentarian Jeanie Finlay, and is the co-director of the Mayhem Film Festival, based at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, U.K.

Steven Sheil

Death, Grief and Why Horror Films Truly Matter

Will Toledo is the singer/songwriter/visionary of Car Seat Headrest. With Teens of Denial, his first real &#8220;studio&#8221; album with an actual band, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Jonathan Richmond, Wire and William Onyeabor.

Will Toledo

Will Toledo’s (Car Seat Headrest) Favorite Lyrics of 2016 So Far Are…

Dan Wilson is an artist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles who is best known as the lead singer of the band Semisonic, for which he wrote the Grammy-nominated smash “Closing Time” as well as other international hits. Since Semisonic, Dan has released two solo albums and has become a highly sought-after songwriting collaborator due to his songwriting, performing and production skills. He has written with and produced a diverse group of artists including  Adele, Dixie Chicks, Chris Stapleton, John Legend, The Head &amp; The Heart, Dierks Bentley, Florence Welch, Jim James, Keith Urban, Carol King, Spoon, Pink, Taylor Swift, and many others. Dan contributed three songs to Adele’s album, 21, including the hit “Someone Like You,” which he also produced, thus earning himself a Grammy for Album of the Year.  A few years earlier, Wilson took home a Song of the Year Grammy for “Not Ready to Make Nice,” one of six songs he co-wrote for the Dixie Chicks’ award-winning album Taking the Long Way. Wilson’s third solo album, Love Without Fear, was released in 2014. Recently, Dan co-wrote nine songs on Phantogram’s new album Three, including their single “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” (which he also co-produced). You can follow him on <a href="https://twitter.com/DanWilsonMusic" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/danwilsonmusic/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and his website is <a href="http://www.danwilsonmusic.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson (Semisonic) Talks Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell

Carey Mercer is a member of Frog Eyes, Swan Lake and Blackout Beach. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/frogeyesmusic">here</a>.

Carey Mercer

Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake) Talks Playing a Private Show for a Dying Fan

Golden Globe winner Victor Levin has written for numerous TV shows, including Mad Men, The Larry Sanders Show, Dream On, and Mad About You, where he penned some of the show&#8217;s most memorable episodes and ran the show in its final two seasons. His screenwriting work includes Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Then She Found Me (co-written with Helen Hunt and Alice Arlen) and the U.S. remake of My Sassy Girl. His feature directorial, 5 to 7, a romance with comedy for grown-ups, opens on April 3 in New York and Los Angeles and then expands to other cities and countries.

Victor Levin

Victor Levin (5 to 7) Talks the Death of the Romantic Comedy: Was It Murder or Suicide?

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>.
(photo credit: Julia Comita)

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