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Jacob Feiring is a director and producer living in Brooklyn, New York, until AI&#8217;s replace him with something better. He is an alumnus of Kartemquin Film Labs, and a recipient of the Robert Flaherty Seminar Fellowship. His first feature film, <a href="http://acrocatsmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acrocats!</a>, had its New York Premiere at the IFC Center as part of DOC NYC and screened at festivals and theaters around the world, including Big Sky Film Festival and the Gene Siskel Film Center. Acrocats! is distributed by Gravitas Ventures and available on VOD.

Jacob Feiring

Film

What Making a Documentary About a Cat Circus Taught Me About the Impermanence of Art

Diana Peralta is a producer, filmmaker, and writer by way of New York City and the Dominican Republic. Her debut feature as writer-director, De Lo Mio, has its world premiere on June 22 as the closing night film of BAMcinemaFest. She currently works as a producer at Revlon, where she leads a range of projects across content production, brand design, digital design, industrial design, and marketing activation. Her work as a producer on the short documentary La Feria Concreta was screened as part of the Dominican Republic’s first pavilion installation at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Her short films have been featured in several festivals and theatrical productions across the US. Aside from her own work, Peralta has collaborated below-the-line on films like Matthew Porterfield’s Puttyhill (Berlin, SXSW ‘10) and I Used to Be Darker (Sundance, Berlin ‘13). She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2011 with a B.A. in Film &amp; Media Studies.

Diana Peralta

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

Santigold is a genre-defying musician, style renegade, and visionary artist across multiple platforms celebrated for her fearless ability to fuse unexpected elements into bold new work. An artist whose perseverance relies on invention, her singular aesthetic has made her a major muse watched by the inspired world. She&#8217;s had a #1 record on Billboard&#8217;s Dance/Electronic chart, won an ASCAP Pop Music award (Vanguard Award), and has been nominated for a Q Award, MTV Europe Music Award, and BRIT Award. She has written for other artists including Christina Aguilera, GZA and Lilly Allen and contributed new work to film soundtracks including The Hunger Games, Paper Towns and the Power Rangers movie as well as series like The Get Down and Girls. She has also played comedic roles on The Office and Adult Swim’s NTSF:SD:SUV. Her brand collaborations include a custom sneaker for Vans, an accessories collection for Stance, and a make up collection for Smashbox for which she also designed the packaging. Santigold is a passionate humanitarian who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the worldwide water crisis and has performed for VH1&#8217;s Save the Music to help preserve music education in public schools. (Image by Craig Wetherby.)

Santigold

Lake Bell serves as co-creator, co-writer, executive producer, and star opposite Dax Shepard in ABC’s Bless This Mess, a new single-camera comedy that centers on a newlywed couple that gives up their drab and unfulfilling lives in New York and moves to Nebraska for a simpler life. Bell also directed the pilot, and the series will return for its second season this upcoming Fall. Bell can currently be seen reprising her role as the lackadaisical cat Chloe in the second installment of Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 opposite Patton Oswalt, Bobby Moynihan, Jenny Slate, Dana Carvey, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart. This fall, Bell will be voicing Poison Ivy in the upcoming DC Universe animated series Harley Quinn. Bell made her debut as writer-director-star with the acclaimed 2013 comedy In a World, and in 2016 followed it up with I Do … Until I Don’t, a romantic comedy about marriage in which she co-starred with Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen, Paul Reiser, Amber Heard, Wyatt Cenac and Dolly Wells.

Lake Bell

Podcast

Lake Bell Talks with Santigold for the Talkhouse Podcast

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

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.

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