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Talkhouse

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That

Podcast

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer

Filmmakers

Film

The 2021 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors’ Top Films of the Year

Alex H. Fischer and Eleanor Wilson are the writer-directors of the sci-fi comedy<a href="https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/save-yourselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Save Yourselves!</a>, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is out now through Bleecker Street. Alex’s previous film, Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone, a mid-length dance comedy space odyssey (a movie), co-directed with Rachel Wolther, premiered at BAMCinemafest in 2017. Alex was named in Filmmaker magazine&#8217;s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” along with Wolther, and their screenplay Nobody Nothing Nowhere was selected for the 2018 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the IFP Project Forum and the 2018 Black List. Eleanor is a writer-director-producer from Adelaide, Australia, whose award-winning short films have played at festivals throughout the world. Her first, Possum, won best short film at the inaugural Nitehawk Shorts Fest, Everything All At Once, starring J. Smith-Cameron, premiered on Sundance.TV, and her latest, Low Road, which premiered at MoMA, was written as part of the Write By the Sea residency and is a recipient of the Future of Film is Female Grant.

Alex H. Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

Just For a Minute, Let’s Talk About Yahoo Serious

Eleanor Wilson