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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

Film

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.)

Lovell Holder

Heads Carolina, Tails California

David Driver is a singer, songwriter, and performer based in New York City. He is the creator of the docu-concert There’s a Riot Going On!: The Real Music &amp; True Story of Stonewall.
(Photo Credit: James Matthew Daniel)

David Driver

David Driver, Michael Musto, Machine Dazzle Are Debunking the Mythology of Stonewall

Al Menne is a singer-songwriter who fronts the Seattle band Great Grandpa. Great Grandpa’s latest record, Patience, Moonbeam, is out now on Run For Cover. 
(Photo Credit: Rachel Bennett)

Al Menne

The New Great Grandpa Record Gives Annie Truscott Goosebumps

Sundance award-winning director Timothy Linh Bui&#8216;s latest film, the vampire thriller Daydreamers, will be in theaters on May 9 and available on all major digital platforms June 3. Before Vietnam became a prominent tourist destination, Timothy, alongside his brother Tony, produced Three Seasons, a film that garnered multiple awards at Sundance and is often credited with inspiring a new wave of Vietnamese filmmakers. Bui later made his directorial debut with Green Dragon, which earned him the Humanitas Prize. He has worked with notable actors, including Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, Eddie Redmayne, Patrick Swayze, Ray Liotta, Jessica Biel, and James Caan. Returning to Vietnam, Bui founded Happy Canvas, with the aim of producing films with global appeal. One of its key projects, The Housemaid, was released by IFC Films in North America and sold to over 25 countries.

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