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Ido Fluk&#8216;s latest feature, <a href="https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/koeln-75" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Köln 75</a> starring Mala Emde, John Magaro and Michael Chernus, is out now in theaters. Described by Variety as &#8220;a talent to be watched&#8221;, he was previously co-writer and director of the Tribeca competition title The Ticket (2017) and the Edinburgh title Never Too Late (2011), which also won the Regard D&#8217;Or at FIFF. He is currently working on the HBO series Empty Mansions in collaboration with Joe Wright and the legal thriller 24 Hours in June with James Schamus. Fluk is a graduate of NYU&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts and lives in New York, where he used to play in bands but no longer does.

Ido Fluk

Film

How Claire Dolan and Roseanne Got Me Through My First Year in New York City

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked with Steve Harvey, Lee Daniels, John Cameron Mitchell, Xan Cassavetes, John Krokidas and David France. He produced Jonathan Caouette&rsquo;s landmark &ldquo;narci-cinema&rdquo;&nbsp;documentary&nbsp;Tarnation&nbsp;(A.O. Scott, New York Times).&nbsp;Stephen&#8217;s 2015 film Jason and Shirley, which he wrote and directed, was called &#8220;one of the year&#8217;s finest&#8221; by Richard Brody in The New Yorker. (Photo by shean.)

Stephen Winter

A Modest (Black Art by Black Artists) Proposal

Tommy O’Haver grew up in Indiana where he spent his early years making Super-8 films. After his first short, Catalina, played at the New York Film Festival, he went on to write and direct his first feature, Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, which premiered and sold at Sundance. He went on to make two films for Miramax: Get Over It and Ella Enchanted. His latest feature, The Most Hated Woman in America, starring Melissa Leo and Josh Lucas, just debuted exclusively on Netflix.

Tommy O’Haver

John Waters for President!

Hope Dickson Leach completed her MFA in filmmaking at Columbia University, where she made three short films that played at festivals worldwide. Screen International made her a Star of Tomorrow and Filmmaker magazine named her one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Her debut feature, <a href="https://www.montereymedia.com/thelevelling" target="_blank">The Levelling</a>, which premiered at TIFF and won Dickson Leach the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award at the London Film Festival, is currently playing in Chicago goes on release in Los Angeles on March 31. Hope is currently developing several features and is a co-founder of <a href="http://www.raisingfilms.com/" target="_blank">Raising Films</a>, a campaign to make the film industry more parent-friendly. She lives in Scotland with her husband and two sons.

Hope Dickson Leach

Kelly Reichardt and Humanism as a Political Statement

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

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.

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