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Haroula Rose is a filmmaker and performer from Chicago, now living in Los Angeles. In 2025, All Happy Families, her sophomore feature film as writer, director and producer, was released in theaters nationwide. The film was executive produced by Michael Shannon and stars Josh Radnor, Becky Ann Baker, Chandra Russell, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, David Pasquesi and Colleen Camp. Her debut feature as writer-director, Once Upon a River, an adaptation of the bestselling novel, won 19 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide. Haroula was selected to be part of Hello Sunshine’s short film series, for which she wrote and directed a romcom fable called Hound of Love. Other acclaimed short films and videos include As They Slept, Lost &amp; Found, Wedding Dress, No Love Song and Baby Crazy. Rose received her BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and attended USC&#8217;s MFA program. As a producer she has worked on Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, David Sington’s The Fear of Thirteen, Heaven Adores You, Permanent and Saint Frances. Rose has released three LPs as well as remixes, singles and EP’s with Thirty Tigers and Tone Tree Music. Her latest collaboration is a group of compositions with Oliver Hill, released on Ba Da Bing Records in early 2025.

Haroula Rose

Film

Some Holiday Spirit: On Film and Chosen Families

Jeremy Xido is a filmmaker and actor whose latest documentary, <a href="https://cabula6.org/sonsofdetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sons of Detroit</a>, a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQeN8GOUnsc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genre-bending documentary</a> based partly on his childhood, premieres at <a href="https://www.docnyc.net/film/sons-of-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOC NYC</a> today. Originally from Detroit, Jeremy graduated cum laude in Painting and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, NY and trained at the Actor&#8217;s Studio. Working as a dancer, actor and filmmaker, he has performed and presented work around the world on stage, TV and in cinema. Currently he is starring in Pia Marais&#8217; new feature film, Transamazonia, which premiered in competition in Locarno, and Amazon MGM Studio&#8217;s new series, House of David. Jeremy&#8217;s film directing credits include the award-winning feature documentary <a href="http://deathmetalangola.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Death Metal Angola</a> (IFFRotterdam), the six-part series “Crime Europe,&#8221; and the short documentaries “Macondo,” &#8220;Dive,&#8221; and &#8220;Care,&#8221; in addition to several narrative shorts. Last year he also premiered the feature documentary <a href="https://cabula6.org/thebones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bones</a>, about the international dinosaur bone trade, which played at CPH/DOX, Hotdocs, Sydney and DC/DOX.

Jeremy Xido

A Sort of Homecoming

Ramon Zürcher is a Swiss writer-director whose latest film, <a href="https://filmmovement.com/product/the-sparrow-in-the-chimney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sparrow in the Chimney</a>, is now on digital. His first feature film, The Strange Little Cat, premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2013 and was selected at over 80 festivals, including Toronto, Cannes, New Directors/NewFilms and Mar del Plata, winning numerous awards. His second feature film, The Girl and the Spider, also premiered at the Berlinale, where it was awarded the prize for Best Director and the FIPRESCI prize of the Encounters section. In Cahiers du Cinéma, the film ranked eighth on the 2021 Best of the Year list. The Sparrow in the Chimney is his third feature film and he is currently writing a youth drama with the working title The Young Woman with the Crowbar. (Photo by Iris Janke.)

Ramon Zürcher

The Ghosts of the Makeshift Apartment

KMRU is Joseph Kamaru, a Nairobi, Kenya-born, Berlin-based ambient musician.

KMRU

Music

Echoes in the Moonlight

Erik Jensen and his wife Jessica Blank are a multihyphenate creative team in film, television and theater; The New Yorker calls them “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S.” Their new film, Brooklyn, Minnesota, starring Amy Madigan, Sadie Jensen-Blank and Erik Jensen, is currently playing festivals, with a theatrical release planned for 2026; their first feature, Almost Home, was released in 2019 by Vertical. They are currently developing a biopic of legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and have written TV for Fox, 20th TV, Gaumont, Levinson/Fontana, David Simon/Blown Deadline, and Ed Burns. Their plays include The Exonerated (Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, Drama Desk Awards), Aftermath (NYTW; two Drama League noms), How To Be a Rock Critic (CTG, Steppenwolf, Public Theater), The Line (Public Theater) and Coal Country (Public Theater, Cherry Lane/Audible; Lortel, two Drama Desk noms; original music by Steve Earle).

Erik Jensen

Finding the Light: The Making of Brooklyn, Minnesota

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

My Dad Was One Battle After Another

Hannah Frances (b. 1997) is a vocalist, guitarist, composer, and poet melding avant-folk, progressive rock, and jazz. Her latest record, Nestled in Tangles, is out now on Fire Talk.

Hannah Frances

Hannah Frances and Flock of Dimes Share a Super Power

Sadie Bones is a 19-year-old screenwriter, director, and actor whose debut feature, <a href="https://ifthatmockingbirddontsing.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing</a>, is out on digital from October 14. Born in Los Angeles and raised in New York City, Sadie is the only child of actor Kevin Corrigan, and had a childhood infused with the magic of cinema. At just eight years old, she wrote and directed her first short Film, Ellipses, and also directed the narrative short The Vanishing Point and the documentary short film Existential Hokey Pokey. She attended the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts and after graduating early, enrolled in the two-year conservatory program at the Lee Strasberg Theatre &amp; Film Institute.

Sadie Bones

Hound & I: How Growing Up the Daughter of Actor Kevin Corrigan Shaped Me as an Artist and Person

Raised between Lagos and London, Halima draws from a tri-continental well. From early explorations of folk and piano to later studies of jazz and R&amp;B, her sound pulls unapologetically from a broad musical spectrum. Halima&#8217;s work embodies the intersection of self-discovery, community, &amp; the complexity of life&#8217;s connections. Her debut record, SWEET TOOTH, is out now.

Halima

On Learning How to Tell Your Stories

Sierra Falconer is a Michigan-raised, Los Angeles-based screenwriter and director. She holds a BFA in film theory from Wesleyan University and an MFA in film directing from UCLA. Her directorial debut, Sunfish (&amp; Other Stories on Green Lake), premiered in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and is in theaters from September 12, 2025.

Sierra Falconer

On the Birds of Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

Karla Murthy is an Emmy Award-nominated producer whose latest feature documentary, The Gas Station Attendant, has its world premiere at the <a href="https://www.sheffdocfest.com/film/gas-station-attendant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheffield DocFest</a> on June 19. She previously directed and produced the 2020 feature doc The Place That Makes Us, about a new generation rebuilding home in Youngstown, Ohio, and the 2023 documentary short <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/love-jamie-short/33061/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love, Jamie</a>. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers, and has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years. Her work was cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent. She graduated from Oberlin College, is an alum of the Third World Newsreel Workshop and the Documentary Institute at Antioch College in Ohio.

Karla Murthy

Personal Exposure

Lovell Holder has produced the critically acclaimed feature films The Surrender, Peak Season, Midday Black Midnight Blue, The End of Us, Working Man, Some Freaks, and Loserville (which he also directed). He recently celebrated the theatrical release of his feature film adaptation of the play Lavender Men, which he directed, co-wrote, and produced. Collectively his films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Fantasia, Santa Barbara, Outfest and BFI Flare. His debut novel, The Book of Luke, will be published by Grand Central Publishing (an imprint of Hachette) in hardcover and audiobook in December 2025. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Brown University, where he received his MFA in acting. (Photo by Luke Fontana.)

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