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Deborah Goodwin is a writer-director-producer whose work in film and television began as a development executive for Sanford-Pillsbury Productions (Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge, How to Make an American Quilt). Deborah’s Urbanworld Film Festival Best Screenplay win for her darkly provocative family drama Cherrys launched her filmmaking path. She has written for Emmy-winning and Independent Spirit Award-nominated producers, and for shows like the cult favorite horror series Tales from the Cryptkeeper. She is a Film Independent and IFP lab fellow and an ABC and NBC diversity showcase director, best known for her horror fable Vampires in Venice and her action/drama The Pastor, released by Fathom Events and AMC. Her Icelandic noir Snaeland, which she co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Vail Film Festival and screens in the Brooklyn Film Festival 2020. Deborah is a Sundance Collab advisor and screenwriting professor at Brooklyn College, and a newly minted co-creator and writer of the noir-crime-thriller series Hot Freeze, with Canadian producer Nomadic Pictures (Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing, Fargo).

Deborah Goodwin

Film

On Weapons and Trumpism

Bill Morrison makes films that reframe long-forgotten moving images. His short film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW65ChIjur4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Incident </a> was nominated for Best Non-Fiction Short at the 2024 Academy Awards and his latest film, The Vanguard Tapes, will have its <a href="https://movingimage.org/event/zodiac-killer-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North American premiere</a> as part of First Look 2025 at the Museum of the Moving Image, Saturday March 15 at 8:00pm. His films have premiered at the New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, and Venice film festivals. In 2014, Morrison had a mid career retrospective at MoMA. His found-footage opus Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. The Great Flood (2013), was recognized with the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award of 2014 for historical scholarship. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) was included on over 100 critics’ lists of the best films of the year, and on numerous lists ranking the best films of the decade, including those of the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair. (Photo by Wolfgang Wesener.)

Bill Morrison

A Uniquely American Story: My Winter 2025

Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale are, with Russell Michaels, the directors of the HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, which is now streaming for free on HBO Go and HBO Now. Ardizzone and Teale previously collaborated, also with Michaels, on the Emmy-nominated 2006 HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. (Picture of Ardizzone by Sarah Teale; picture of Teale by Carin Van Der Donk.)

Simon Ardizzone and Sarah Teale

What Happened When Our Election-Hacking Doc Came Out During Coronavirus

Writer-director Sara Seligman’s debut feature, <a href="http://crankedupfilms.com/coyotelake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coyote Lake</a>, starring Adriana Barraza and Camila Mendes, opens in select theaters through Cranked Up from August 2. Born and raised in Mexico, Seligman moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker. After graduating the New York Film Academy, Sara worked in production, development and post-production in film, television and advertisement. During this career path, Sara worked under the wing of Jennifer Todd (for the feature film “Live By Night” and the 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards,) and as a commercial producer for ad agencies. Sara sold her first screenplay, Plan V, to No Dancing Today, in 2015; the movie had its theatrical release in Mexico summer 2018. Sara wrote, directed and produced her short film, Diego, which was screened at film festivals around the world (including the Palm Springs International Film Festival), and received several awards, including the Gold Lion at the Barcelona Film Festival.

Sara Seligman

Making a Latinx Movie in the Time of Trump

I am Gaby Dunn. I am a TV writer and actress living in Los Angeles. I’ve sold shows to MTV, FX, FOX, and YouTube Red. I appeared on the second season of Take My Wife, a sitcom you can watch on Starz. (I was kind of a bad guy!) I currently write on Netflix’s Big Mouth. I have a podcast called <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-with-money-with-gaby-dunn/id1144712710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bad With Money</a>, which was named one of the top 10 podcasts of 2016 by the New York Times. The show’s third season comes out in April 2018. The book version of Bad With Money will be published by Simon and Schuster in Jan 2019. My comedy partner Allison Raskin and I produce the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/justbetweenusshow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Between Us</a>, which has more than 750,000 subscribers. Our novel<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/125012932X/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> I Hate Everyone But You</a> was a New York Times Best Seller. (Wow! Cool! Awesome!)
(Photo by Doug Frerichs)

Gaby Dunn

In Comedy, Saying Nothing Is No Longer an Option

Maxim Pozdorovkin is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and media curator based in New York City. He is the director of three feature-length documentaries and numerous short films. His films include Pussy Riot: a Punk Prayer, The Notorious Mr. Bout and Capital. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University and was a junior fellow at Harvard&#8217;s Society of Fellows. His latest film, <a href="https://ournewpresident.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our New President</a>, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and is now available on iTunes.

Maxim Pozdorovkin

How To Make Fun of Donald Trump

Ted Geoghegan is the writer and director of the acclaimed 2015 retro-horror feature We Are Still Here, which is currently available on Amazon Prime and Shudder, and the violent 1814-set action-drama Mohawk, now on Netflix. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and internet-famous cat.

Ted Geoghegan

Scared, Angry White Men

Daniel DiMauro, Dylan Bank and Morgan Pehme are the writers and co-directors of the 2017 Netflix Original documentary Get Me Roger Stone.

Daniel DiMauro, Dylan Bank and Morgan Pehme

Behind Enemy Lines: Documenting the Trump Campaign as an Independent Filmmaker

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

So It Turns Out Happy Death Day is Pretty Much a Masterpiece

<div class="gmail_quote">Chris Baio&#8216;s solo records include 2015&#8217;s The Names and Man of the World, released via Glassnote Records in June. He is also the bass player of the Grammy-winning band Vampire Weekend.</div>

Chris Baio

Music

No Human Being Is Illegal

Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s latest film, Strange Weather, starring Holly Hunter, is available on digital and through Netflix. Her previous features are A Good Baby (2000), Diggers (2006), and Motherhood (2009). Dieckmann was the original director on Nickelodeon’s groundbreaking series The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete, and has directed music videos for Sharon Van Etten, R.E.M., Wilco, Aimee Mann, Throwing Muses and Vic Chesnutt, among other bands. She is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film Program, where she teaches screenwriting.

Katherine Dieckmann

How Trump’s Victory Gave My Latest Film New Meaning

I, Thor Harris, am not an activist. This is no time for any of us to wait and see what happens. I am a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist. I play with Thor &amp; Friends,&nbsp;Swans,&nbsp;Ben Frost,&nbsp;Bill Callahan,&nbsp;Adam Torres, Shearwater, Amanda Palmer, and others. I write bossy lists such as &#8220;How to Tour in a Band or Whatever&#8221; and &#8220;How to Live&nbsp;Like a King on Very Little.&#8221;&nbsp;I also talk openly about depression.&nbsp;I&#8217;m pretty good at <a href="https://twitter.com/thorharris666" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>.

Donald Trump