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Nicole Holofcener is a writer-director who lives in Los Angeles. A graduate of Columbia, where she was taught by Martin Scorsese, she made her feature debut in 1996 with the acclaimed indie comedy Walking and Talking, starring Catherine Keener and Anne Heche. She subsequently reteamed with Keener on her many of subsequent features, including Lovely and Amazing (also featuring Brenda Blethyn and Emily Mortimer), Friends with Money (starring Jennifer Aniston Joan Cusack and Frances McDormand), Please Give (with Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Rebecca Hall), and Enough Said (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini and Toni Collette). On TV, she has directed episodes such shows as Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Parks and Recreation, Bored to Death, Enlightened Orange is the New Black, Inside Amy Schumer and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She is currently completing her new film for Netflix, The Land of Steady Habits, starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco, Connie Britton and Thomas Mann.

Nicole Holofcener

Jenny Slate had her breakthrough role in writer-director Gillian Robespierre&#8217;s 2014 comedy Obvious Child as Donna, a twenty-something comedienne whose unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time. She is now starring in Landline, her second feature in collaboration with Robespierre. Her other film credits include Joshy, My Blind Brother and the forthcoming Aardvark and The Polka King, while she also voiced the characters of Bellwether in Disney&#8217;s Zootopia and Gidget in The Secret Life of Pets. Slate&#8217;s TV credits include Kroll Show, Bob&#8217;s Burgers, Parks and Recreation, Girls, Saturday Night Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Bored to Death. She is also the co-creator with Dean Fleischer-Camp of Marcel the Shell, the beloved character from the Marcel The Shell short films which became viral sensations, and the best-selling children&#8217;s books which those shorts spawned.

Jenny Slate

Writer-director Gillian Robespierre is a filmmaker born and raised in New York City. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts, Film &amp; Video Program. Her first feature, Obvious Child, starring Jenny Slate, premiered at Sundance in 2014 and was released to excellent reviews. Her second feature, Landline, also starring Slate as well as Edie Falco, John Turturro and Jay Duplass, is currently in theaters through Magnolia Pictures. Robespierre has also directed episodes of Casual, a Hulu original television show, and HBO’s Crashing. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Gillian Robespierre

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

Talkhouse Podcast

Podcast

Jenny Slate and Gillian Robespierre Talk with Nicole Holofcener for the Talkhouse Podcast

Award-winning writer-director Maggie Greenwald’s films include The Kill-Off, The Ballad of Little Jo and Songcatcher. Her most recent film, Sophie and the Rising Sun, is now streaming on Netflix. TV work includes the films What Makes a Family, Get a Clue and Good Morning Killer, along with recent forays into episodic directing. She is currently developing the feature biopic Tokyo Rose – The Treason Trial of Iva Toguri. (Picture by Larry Ford.)

Maggie Greenwald

Film

How I Found Abundance Moving from Indie Features to Episodic TV

Rian Johnson is the writer and director responsible for the films Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper. In addition he has directed several episodes of the TV show Breaking Bad, one episode of Terriers, and the performance film The Life of the World to Come for the band The Mountain Goats.

Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) Talks with Ana Lily Amirpour (The Bad Batch) for the Talkhouse Podcast

Paul Scheer is an actor, writer, producer and director who has established himself as one of today&rsquo;s go-to comic actors in film and television. You can currently see him on the sixth season of Veep. He also appears in the hit ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat and was on the FX hit The League. He also co-hosts one of iTunes&rsquo;s most popular comedy podcasts, How Did This Get Made?.

Paul Scheer

Paul Scheer Talks with Ken Marino (How to Be a Latin Lover) for the Talkhouse Podcast

John McNaughton has been directing films for 30 years, starting with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and including The Borrower, Mad Dog and Glory, Wild Things, and most recently, The Harvest.

John McNaughton

John McNaughton Talks Reteaming with Michael Rooker 30 Years After Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Matthew Wilder wrote Paul Schrader&#8217;s Dog Eat Dog, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and just played at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opens in November. Looking Glass, a script co-written by Wilder, goes into production next month and stars Nicolas Cage, also the star of Dog Eat Dog. This fall Wilder will direct his second self-written feature, Morning Has Broken, starring Peter Bogdanovich and Lydia Hearst.

Matthew Wilder

A Crash Course on the Apocalyptic and Secretly Subversive World of Robert Aldrich

A filmmaker known as much for her versatility as she is for her passion, April Mullen most recently directed Below Her Mouth, a relentless love story shot entirely by an all-female crew which had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and will be released theatrically in the U.S. on April 28. Mullen&#8217;s previous features include: 88, an action thriller; and Dead Before Dawn 3D, which made Mullen the youngest person and first female to direct a live-action stereoscopic 3D feature film. The film was celebrated for its technological achievement and awarded the Perron Crystal. Mullen is co-founder of the independent production company WANGO Films, alongside Tim Doiron. The company has produced five films to date. A true maverick in the feature film world, Mullen is known for her bold and stunning visuals, ambitious shooting style, strong performances and unique voice. Selected TV credits include Killjoys, Aftermath, Real Detective, Bellevue and Wynonna Earp.

April Mullen

How Being Called a “Female Filmmaker” Helped Me Understand the Future of Cinema

In 2016, Tyler Hubby directed <a href="http://www.tonyconradmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present</a>, his debut feature documentary about iconoclastic multimedia artist Tony Conrad. Hubby previously edited over 30 documentaries including The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Participant Media’s The Great Invisible, and Drafthouse Films’ The Final Member. He served as an additional editor on the Oscar nominated The Garden and HBO’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired and also edited the gothic horror short Usher, by cult director Curtis Harrington, about whom he also co-directed a short documentary entitled House of Harrington. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied film and photography. His subversive and irreverent short films detailing fetishism, co-dependency and bodily mutations have screened internationally and are featured in the book Cinema Contra Cinema by British author Jack Sargeant. Find out more at his <a href="http://www.tylerhubby.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">official website</a>.

Tyler Hubby

Me and My Mentors: David Fincher, George Kuchar, Curtis Harrington and Tony Conrad

Michael O’Shea grew up in the Rockaways in Queens, New York, where The Transfiguration, his debut feature as writer-director, is set. He studied film at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theater Arts &amp; Film. The Transfiguration premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2016, and O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s next film, A Spectacle, was selected for Rotterdam Cinemart 2017. The Transfiguration opens at the Angelika Film Center in New York City on April 7 and at the NuArt Theater in Los Angeles on April 21, with more cities to follow.

Michael O’Shea

Why I’m Debunking the Myth of My Own Success

Rucha Humnabadkar is known for her work on acclaimed Indian filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor&rsquo;s indie hits Hyderabad Blues, Rockford and Bollywood Calling, as Assistant Director and Art Director. Her short film Arranged Marriage is featured in the Smithsonian Asian Heritage touring exhibit Beyond Bollywood. Her award-winning debut feature film as director, For Here or To Go?, which has played a film festivals worldwide and had prestigious screenings at the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C., the U.S. House of Representatives and the Indian Embassy in London, is released in the U.S. on March 31. Go <a href="http://forhereortogomovie.com/" target="_blank">here</a> for more information about the film and to see where it is playing.

Rucha Humnabadkar

How I Harnessed My Silicon Valley Startup Skills to Make a Successful First Feature

Kirsten Johnson is a cinematographer and director. Her directorial feature debut, Cameraperson, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, won numerous awards and was released theatrically by Janus Films to great acclaim. Her short film The Above premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival in the The Intercept’s Field of Vision launch. Her most recent camerawork appears in Oscar-winning Citizenfour and Very Semi-Serious. Her credits include The Invisible War, Asylum and Fahrenheit 9/11. She lives in New York City. (Photo by Kathy Leichter.)

Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) Talks with Agnès Varda for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Simon Fitzmaurice was an award-winning writer and film director. His memoir, It’s Not Yet Dark, was a #1 bestseller in his home country of Ireland. His films won prizes at film festivals all over the world, including Best Short Film at the Cork Film Festival and the Belfast Film Festival (twice), the Grand Jury Prize at Opalcine, the Jimmy Stewart Memorial Award at the Heartland Film Festival, and the Jury Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. His short film The Sound of People was an official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shortly after that film’s premiere, Simon was diagnosed with ALS. When completely paralyzed, Fitzmaurice wrote the script for My Name Is Emily through the movement of his eyes, using state of the art iris recognition software. This is also how he communicated with cast and crew while directing the film’s six-week shoot.

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