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Rucha Humnabadkar is known for her work on acclaimed Indian filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor&rsquo;s indie hits Hyderabad Blues, Rockford and Bollywood Calling, as Assistant Director and Art Director. Her short film Arranged Marriage is featured in the Smithsonian Asian Heritage touring exhibit Beyond Bollywood. Her award-winning debut feature film as director, For Here or To Go?, which has played a film festivals worldwide and had prestigious screenings at the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C., the U.S. House of Representatives and the Indian Embassy in London, is released in the U.S. on March 31. Go <a href="http://forhereortogomovie.com/" target="_blank">here</a> for more information about the film and to see where it is playing.

Rucha Humnabadkar

Film

How I Harnessed My Silicon Valley Startup Skills to Make a Successful First Feature

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

The Unfortunate Thing Filmmakers Have in Common with President Trump

Elisabeth Subrin is the writer-director of <a href="http://www.awomanapart.com/" target="_blank">A Woman, A Part</a>, starring Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour and John Ortiz, which has a one-week run at the <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/films/a-woman-a-part/" target="_blank">IFC Center</a> starting this Wednesday, March 22. It is her first narrative feature. Subrin’s critically acclaimed films and video art have screened widely internationally, including at the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Vienna Viennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Subrin participated in the Sundance Institute Feature Film Directing and Screenwriting Labs with her first feature screenplay, Up. A 2002 Guggenheim Fellow, she&#8217;s also received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Annenberg, Creative Capital and Andrea Frank Foundations. Subrin teaches in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn.

Elisabeth Subrin

Who Cares About Films About Actresses?

An Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner, Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi released his first feature Interrupted Streams in 2010, which was followed in 2012 by the acclaimed 5 Broken Cameras, made with Palestinian co-director Emad Burnat. The film was nominated for the 2013 Best Documentary Oscar and won the 2013 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. It won awards in more than 40 film festivals worldwide and commercially distributed worldwide. Davidi&#8217;s latest film, Mixed Feelings, is the story of Israeli director and acting teacher Amir Orian, a once-successful actor who left his blooming career to create an alternative theater in his own apartment. The first feature he has made about Israeli society and in his hometown, Tel Aviv, it plays at the Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York City on March 17.

Guy Davidi

How I Learned the Importance and Value of Anger in Art

Mara Wilson is a writer, playwright, actor, and storyteller perhaps best known as the little girl from Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street, and Matilda. Her acclaimed memoir, Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, was published by Penguin in 2016. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Wilson regularly appears at live storytelling and comedy shows, including her own, What Are You Afraid Of?. Her writing can be found on Jezebel, The Toast, McSweeney’s, The Daily Beast, and Cracked.com, and on her blog, <a href="http://MaraWilsonWritesStuff.com">MaraWilsonWritesStuff.com</a>. A voice actor on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, she will guest star on upcoming episodes of Broad City and BoJack Horseman. She lives in New York City. (Photo by Ari Scott.)

Mara Wilson

For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)

Stephen Cone&nbsp;is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include&nbsp;Princess Cyd&nbsp;(BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and&nbsp;Henry Gamble&rsquo;s Birthday Party&nbsp;(BAMcinemaFest, Maryland Film Festival), both of which are currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the Outfest-winning,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Critics Pick&nbsp;The Wise Kids, which can be found streaming on Hulu. Other films include&nbsp;Black Box&nbsp;(Devolver Digital),&nbsp;This Afternoon&nbsp;and&nbsp;In Memoriam&nbsp;(Vimeo).&nbsp;Stephen&nbsp;teaches in the Department of Radio / Television / Film at Northwestern University.

Stephen Cone

Personal Shopper and the Movies That Haunt Us

David J. (a.k.a. David J. Haskins), founder member of the highly influential BAUHAUS. Bauhaus spearheaded the post-punk Alternative music scene of the early ‘80s with a string of innovative albums and singles, including, for many, perhaps their defining moment, a song that is ranked as a classic and feasibly the pinnacle of the entire Gothic scene and beyond, the nine-minute plus epic slab of industrial dub that is &#8220;Bela Lugosi’s Dead,&#8221; featuring the lyrics of David J.
(Photo credit: Trevor Long)

David J.

Music

David J’s (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) Impressionistic Take on Sun Kil Moon’s Sprawling New Record

Minhal Baig is a writer-director best known for her feature directorial debut One Night, starring Anna Camp and Justin Chatwin, which is now in theaters and on VOD. Her short film Hala was featured on Nylon and Short of the Week, and her feature-length script for Hala landed on the Black List in 2016. She lives in Los Angeles.

Minhal Baig

Finding My Voice in American Cinema

Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of content development company Paper Lantern Lit. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than 30 languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren&#8217;s bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by AwesomenessTV; a major motion picture adaptation of Before I Fall will open in theaters on March 3 through Open Road Films. Her novels for middle-grade readers include The Spindlers, Liesl &amp; Po and the Curiosity House series, co-written with H. C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. A graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU&#8217;s MFA program, she divides her time between New York, Connecticut, and a variety of airport lounges. You can visit her online at <a href="http://www.laurenoliverbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.laurenoliverbooks.com</a>.

Lauren Oliver

Getting Lucky in Hollywood

Halley Feiffer is a writer and actor. Her plays include I&#8217;m Gonna Pray for You So Hard and A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She co-wrote and starred in the film He&#8217;s Way More Famous Than You and recently starred in the Broadway revival of The Front Page.

Halley Feiffer

Why is the President So Afraid of the Arts?

Michael Tyburski is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been featured by The New Yorker, Indiewire, Short of the Week, and in Filmmaker Magazine, which named him one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” His short film Palimpsest premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize. He has received support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Sundance Institute, where he was selected as a feature film fellow for the Film Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound. His feature film debut, The Sound of Silence, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. His latest film, <a href="https://www.vert-ent.com/films/turn-me-on" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turn Me On</a>, starring Bel Powley, Nick Robinson, Justin H. Min, D&#8217;Arcy Carden, Nesta Cooper, Griffin Newman, Julia Shiplett, Patti Harrison and Luke Kirby, is now out on digital.

Michael Tyburski

Why I Keep Returning to Barry Lyndon

Orlando von Einsiedel is the director of the 2014 Academy Award-nominated documentary feature <a href="http://virungamovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virunga</a>, which won numerous awards worldwide, including a Primetime Emmy and a Peabody. Orlando’s short films have spanned Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arctic and covered all manner of stories from a <a href="https://vimeo.com/32234310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skateboard school in Afghanistan</a> through to the tracking and arrest of pirates in West Africa. His latest film, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80101827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The White Helmets</a>, about volunteer Syrian rescue workers, launched last year as a Netflix Original production and is nominated for Best Documentary Short at the upcoming Academy Awards. He co-runs the London-based production company <a href="http://www.grainmedia.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grain Media</a>.

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