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Tom DeNucci is a director, writer, producer and actor; his latest film, Vault, is in theaters now. Born and raised in Cranston, Rhode Island, DeNucci serves as the president of Woodhaven Media. He has directed six feature films, all of which have received worldwide distribution. In 2013, DeNucci was the recipient of the Rhode Island International Film Festival Robert Burgess Aldrich Award, and in 2015 was named the Shooting Star Award Recipient by Imagine Magazine.

Tom DeNucci

Film

Telling a Legendary Crime Story with Home-Field Advantage

Born in 1988, Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli works as a film director, editor, colourist and critic living in New York. She has directed two feature films, So Pretty, (2019, Berlinale) a literary translation/transposition focusing on gender and the utopian imagination, and Empathy (2016, FID Marseille), a performative documentary following a heroin-addicted escort across the USA.

Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli

I Make a Film, the Film Makes Me

Patricia Rozema is the writer, director and producer of Mouthpiece, which is now in theaters through Crucial Things and First Generation Films. After an Honors B.A. in Philosophy and English from Calvin College in Michigan, she distinguished herself as a writer/director with her internationally celebrated first comedy feature, I&#8217;ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, at the Director&#8217;s Fortnight in Cannes, where it won the Prix de la Jeunesse. It then opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 1987. Other highlights: writing/directing the contemporary lesbian love story When Night is Falling, adapting/directing the politically progressive Miramax JaneAusten feature Mansfield Park with Harold Pinter, and co-writing HBO’s Grey Gardens, starring DrewBarrymore and Jessica Lange, which won her a PEN Screenwriter&#8217;s award, an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe. She also won an Emmy for writing and directing a Yo-Yo Ma/Bach film, Six Gestures. In 2015, Rozema adapted and directed the apocalyptic thriller Into the Forest, with Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood. She has also directed Anne with an E and Mozart in the Jungle for Netflix/CBC and Amazon. She is a member of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Patricia Rozema

Why Me?

Michael Gallagher is an award-winning filmmaker and digital media pioneer. He first gained recognition for creating the hit comedy series Totally Sketch and co-founding Maker Studios. In 2014, Gallagher was the grand prize winner of Guillermo Del Toro’s “House of Horrors” Short Film Competition, which landed him a script deal at Legendary. The Thinning, the first film Gallagher co-wrote, directed and produced for the studio, sold to YouTube Red in 2016 and became an instant hit. Gallagher’s other films include the mockumentary Internet Famous and the teen horror Smiley. His latest film, <a href="https://www.funnystorymovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Funny Story</a>, premiered at Slamdance and is in select theaters and on iTunes from May 24.

Michael Gallagher

Always Bet on Yourself

Ritesh Batra’s debut work The Lunchbox, was supported by the Sundance Institute and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for the 2015 BAFTAs. He has since worked on Our Souls At Night, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, and The Sense of an Ending with Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling. <a href="https://www.photograph.movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photograph</a>, his newest work, is in theaters through Amazon Studios from May 17. He has a passion for running, reading, and fountain pens. His favorite color is blue.

Ritesh Batra

My Favorite Car is a Bicycle, or Why I Must Create Things vs. Making Them

Following its world premiere in Toronto, Annabel Jankel’s latest feature, <a href="http://gooddeedentertainment.com/tellittothebees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tell It to the Bees</a>, starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger is in theaters through GDE from May 3. Annabel, with Rocky Morton, was the creative force behind Cucumber Studios, which pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with innovative combinations of animation, CGI and live action, such as in the seminal video for Elvis Costello’s “Accidents Will Happen.” In the mid-eighties, Jankel co-created and co-directed Max Headroom, which led to co-directing Hollywood features, including the cult movies D.O.A., with Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, and Super Mario Bros., with Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins. Back in London, Jankel created the music documentary series Live From Abbey Road, and directed the TV feature Skellig, starring Tim Roth. A U.S. and U.K citizen, Annabel divides her time between London and Los Angeles.

Annabel Jankel

Sketch in Time

Pollyanna McIntosh is an actor, writer and director who currently plays Jadis on The Walking Dead. Her feature debut as writer-director, Darlin&#8216;, had its world premiere at SXSW 2019, has subsequently played at festivals such as What the Fest!?, and is forthcoming in theaters later this summer. Her recent work in film has included The Woman, Filth, Let Us Prey, Burke and Hare and Tales of Halloween, while on TV she appeared in Sundance Channel&#8217;s Hap and Leonard and was the female lead in the BBC political comedy, Bob Servant Independent, starring alongside Brian Cox. Born in Scotland, she grew up in Portugal and Colombia and now lives in Los Angeles. (Picture by Lexus Gallegos.)

Pollyanna McIntosh

Naked and Barefoot in the Snow: A Day on Darlin’

Ant Timpson&nbsp;studied law before working in all facets of the industry from festivals and exhibitions to distribution and production. He created the hit series of films the ABCs of Death with his partner in crime Tim League and has produced a slew of successful features, including Housebound, Turbo Kid, and The Greasy Strangler. Timpson sports no tattoos, collects 35mm film prints, and loves animals. His first feature as director, Come to Daddy, has its <a href="https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/come-to-daddy-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">world premiere</a> at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25. (Image by David White.)

Ant Timpson

The Very Long, Dark and Strange Journey to Directing My First Feature

Pamela B. Green is the director of<a href="https://benaturalthemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché</a>, which is now in select theaters through Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber. In 2005, Green founded PIC, an entertainment and motion design boutique based in Los Angeles, California. Nominated for an Emmy for the documentary Bhutto, Green has produced main titles, created and advised on internal story sequences and marketing campaigns for films such as the Bourne series, Fast and Furious, The Muppets, Rings and several Marvel comic-book franchises. She has also worked on films such as The Cabin the Woods and The Kingdom. For television and streaming, she has created titles for Supergirl, The Flash and Quantico among many others. She lives in Los Angeles.

Pamela B. Green

How I Set Out in Search of a Cinematic Mystery – and Found Myself

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<div>Azazel Jacobs is an NYC-raised writer-director, most recently of The Lovers, produced and distributed by A24, and whose screenplay was nominated for a Spirit Award (2018). Before this, he was a writer and the director of the acclaimed Sky/HBO series Doll &amp; Em. Other credits include Terri (2011, ATO Pictures) and Momma’s Man (2008, Kino). He studied directing at SUNY Purchase and the American Film Institute. You can follow him on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/azazeljacobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@azazeljacobs</a>. (Photo by Patrick Reynolds.)
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Azazel Jacobs

“You Have So Much Ahead”: A Few Words About Aki Kaurismäki

James Roday is a actor-writer-director best known for his eight-year run as Shawn Spencer on the USA hit comedy Psych, which also spawned a Psych film that aired in December 2017 to huge ratings success. Roday, who is currently starring on ABC&#8217;s A Million Little Things, has written pilots for USA, Fox and SyFy, and has directed shows such as Fox&#8217;s The Resident and Rosewood, and CBS&#8217;s Battle Creek, as well as writing and directing multiple episodes of Psych for USA. His feature directing debut, Gravy, starring Jimmi Simpson and Michael Weston, is now a cult classic horror-comedy film seen around the world. Roday&#8217;s second feature, Treehouse, is now on Hulu as part of Blumhouse Productions&#8217; anthology series Into the Dark.

James Roday

Karen Gillan is a Scottish actor, writer and director best known for her roles as Amy Pond in Doctor Who and Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War and the forthcoming Avengers: Endgame. She also plays Martha in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and its as-yet-untitled sequel. She has written and directed a number of shorts, and made her feature debut with the 2018 film The Party&#8217;s Just Beginning, in which she also played the lead role.

Karen Gillan

Podcast

Karen Gillan Talks with James Roday for the Talkhouse Podcast

Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan began his career as a writer. His first book of stories, Night In Tunisia (1976), won the Guardian Fiction prize. Since then he has published seven novels, The Past (1979), The Dream of a Beast (1983), Sunrise With Seamonster (1994), Shade (2005), Mistaken (2011), The Drowned Detective (2015), and Carnivalesque (2017). In 1982, Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, Angel, and has written, directed, and produced more than 15 films, including Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, Interview With the Vampire, Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, The End Of The Affair, In Dreams, Breakfast on Pluto, Ondine, and Byzantium. His latest film, <a href="http://focusfeatures.com/greta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greta</a><a href="http://focusfeatures.com/greta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a>, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert, is in theaters through Focus Features from March 1. Neil Jordan has also written, directed, and produced three seasons of the television series The Borgias, with producer James Flynn and Showtime. His films have been honored with numerous awards worldwide, including an Oscar (Best Original Screenplay), BAFTA’s, Golden Globes, a Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival, and a Silver Bear from Berlin.

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