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Amber Tamblyn is an actress, writer, activist and filmmaker. She is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Dark Sparkler, the novel Any Man, and the memoir Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. Her debut feature as writer-director, the 2016 Paint It Black, starring Alia Shawkat, Alfred Molina and Janet McTeer, is now available on VOD. As an actress, she has appeared in the TV series General Hospital, Joan of Arcadia, House and Two and a Half Men and the films The Ring, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Grudge 2, Stephanie Daley (for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and 127 Hours. For more, visit her <a href="https://www.amtam.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official website</a>.

Amber Tamblyn

Aisha Tyler is an actress, broadcaster, writer and filmmaker. She is known for her roles in the TV series Friends, Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds and Archer, and is also currently the co-host of CBS&#8217; The Talk and the host of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the podcast Girl on Guy. She recorded the comedy special Aisha Tyler is Lit: Live at the Fillmore in 2009, and is the author of two books, including Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation. Her directorial debut feature, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Axisthefilm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axis</a>, is available on VOD from April 10.

Aisha Tyler

Film

Amber Tamblyn Talks with Aisha Tyler for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Innerspace, Matinee, Small Soldiers, The ‘burbs, The Hole and the zom-com Burying the Ex. His TV directing work includes the HBO film The Second Civil War, the Masters of Horrors titles, episodes of Eerie, Indiana (which he helped create), CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0 and Salem.

Joe Dante

Featured as one of Forbes&#8216; “30 under 30” two consecutive years, Max Landis is an outspoken rising star in the screenwriting world. He has sold over 15 projects in the last five years, including the 2012 hit Chronicle; American Ultra, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart; Victor Frankenstein with Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy; and Mr. Right, starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick. Me Him Her is his debut feature as writer-director. Landis is currently developing Dirk Gently, based on the Douglas Adams’ graphic novel, for BBC America.

Max Landis

Joe Dante (Gremlins) Talks with Max Landis (Me Him Her) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

J.C. Chandor was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his directorial debut Margin Call, which also won multiple awards including two Independent Spirit Awards. His two subsequent films, All Is Lost starring Robert Redford and A Most Violent Year with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, garnered huge critical acclaim as well as nominations from the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards and Gotham Awards. He currently lives outside New York City with his wife, painter Cameron Goodyear, and their two children.

J.C. Chandor

Josh Mond is a writer, director, producer, and co-founder of Borderline Films. Mond’s breakthrough directorial debut, James White, which stars Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon and Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and took home the Sundance Next Audience Award. It was released by The Film Arcade on November 11. Mond, who also produced the critically acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene, was named one of Variety’s “Ten Producers to Watch” in 2011.

Josh Mond

J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) Talks with Josh Mond (James White) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Just for the record, I started making films when I was 17 in 1968 and have never stopped for 1 minute and am not planning to.

Abel Ferrara

Gaspar No&eacute; was born in Buenos Aires and studied cinema at Paris&#8217; L&#8217;&Eacute;cole nationale sup&eacute;rieure Louis-Lumi&egrave;re.&nbsp;His short Carne (1991) and his first feature, I Stand Alone (1998), both won Critics&#8217; Week Awards at Cannes. His films&nbsp;Irreversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009) both also played at the festival. Love is his latest feature, which debuted at&nbsp;Cannes earlier this year and is out now theatrically courtesy of Alchemy.

Gaspar Noé

Podcast

Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) Talks with Gaspar Noé (Love) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director. She is best-known for films such as Gas, Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Four Rooms (1995) and Grace of My Heart (1996), and is currently a prolific TV director, helming episodes of shows such as Sex and the City, The L Word, The Mentalist and Orange is the New Black. A winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, she is also a Distinguished Professor in the Film And Media Studies Department at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Allison Anders

Allison Anders (Grace of My Heart) Talks with Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Geoff Barrow, an English producer/composer, is the founding member of the band Portishead and a member of the experimental trio BEAK&gt;. He launched the independent label Invada Records in 2001, and as a producer has worked with bands as diverse as The Horrors, Quakers and Anika. Barrow was the music supervisor for Banksy&#8217;s film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and most recently created the score for Alex Garland&#8217;s Ex Machina, along with Ben Salisbury. The pair also released Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One, an album of music composed for the film Dredd.

Geoff Barrow

The former frontman of Pop Will Eat Itself, Clint Mansell is an Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated film composer. He is a longtime collaborator of groundbreaking director Darren Aronofsky, for whom Mansell has scored each of his major films, including Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Noah, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Pi. In addition, Mansell has scored Duncan Jones’ directorial debut Moon, Park Chan-wook&#8217;s 2013 thriller Stoker, Dito Montiel&#8217;s Man Down (out fall 2015) and Ben Wheatley&#8217;s upcoming High-Rise.

Clint Mansell

Composer Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina) Talks with Composer Clint Mansell (Noah) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Independent Spirit Award-nominated writer/director/actor Jonathan Lisecki made his feature film debut with the romantic comedy <a href="http://www.gaybyfilm.com/" target="_blank">Gayby</a> (2012), adapted from the award-winning short film of the same title. He lives in New York and Los Angeles with his husband, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/jonnynyc" target="_blank">@jonnynyc</a>.

Jonathan Lisecki

Sarah Gertrude Shapiro is the co-creator, writer and supervising producer of Lifetime&#8217;s hit drama series UnREAL, based on her SXSW award-winning short film Sequin Raze. UnREAL won the Critics&#8217; Choice Award for Most Exciting New Series, and was called “summer&#8217;s best TV show” by The Daily Beast and “one of the most interesting dramas in recent memory” by Vulture. In 2013, Shapiro was one of eight women chosen for the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

Sarah Gertrude Shapiro

Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro (UnREAL) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Joe Swanberg has directed many acclaimed feature films and web shows, including Hannah Takes The Stairs, Alexander the Last, Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas and the IFC.com series Young American Bodies. He also co-directed and acted in the breakout horror film V/H/S. His films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin and SXSW and regularly appear on TV and in film festivals and theaters around the world.

Joe Swanberg

Kris Rey began her film career studying documentary film production at Southern Illinois University. Using naturalistic techniques and often working with non-actors, she went on to focus her career in narrative film. Her first feature, It was great, but I was ready to come home, played in competition at SXSW in 2009, was followed by Empire Builder (2012) and the short film Baby Mary (2014). Her third feature, Unexpected, starring Cobie Smulders and Anders Holm, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and will be distributed later this year by the Film Arcade.

Kris Rey

Joe Swanberg (Digging for Fire) Talks with Kris Swanberg (Unexpected) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Larry Karaszewski with his writing/directing/producing partner Scott Alexander won the Best Screenplay Golden Globe for The People vs. Larry Flynt and was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for the cult favorite Ed Wood. Other credits include writing the Milos Forman film Man on the Moon, adapting the Stephen King story 1408, producing Paul Schrader&#8217;s Auto Focus, and writing/producing the Tim Burton feature Big Eyes for which they received an Independent Spirit Best Screenplay nomination.

Larry Karaszewski

Screenwriter Larry Karaszewski (Big Eyes) Talks with Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal (Wild Canaries) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Daniel Schechter is an indie filmmaker living in New York City. His micro-budget feature Supporting Characters is now available on iTunes and Netflix and his latest film, Life of Crime starring Jennifer Aniston, will be released on August 29th, 2014.

Daniel Schechter

Daniel Schechter (Life of Crime) Talks with Desiree Akhavan (Appropriate Behavior) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Errol Morris is a writer and filmmaker. His books Believing is Seeing and Wilderness of Error have both appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list and his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara won an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2004. Morris’s latest film is The Unknown Known. He lives with his wife and French bulldog in Cambridge, MA. Follow Errol Morris on <a href="https://twitter.com/errolmorris" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.

Errol Morris

Errol Morris (The Unknown Known) Talks with James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

James Marsh is an English director best known for his 2008 film, Man on Wire, which won many awards including the Oscar for Best Documentary. His other notable non-fiction credits include Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) and Project Nim (2011). Marsh also directs fiction films, including The King (2005), starring Gael Garcia Bernal; Red Riding: 1980 (2009), the second part of the Red Riding trilogy; and Shadow Dancer (2012), with Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson.

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