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Award-winning writer-director Maggie Greenwald’s films include The Kill-Off, The Ballad of Little Jo and Songcatcher. Her most recent film, Sophie and the Rising Sun, is now streaming on Netflix. TV work includes the films What Makes a Family, Get a Clue and Good Morning Killer, along with recent forays into episodic directing. She is currently developing the feature biopic Tokyo Rose – The Treason Trial of Iva Toguri. (Picture by Larry Ford.)

Maggie Greenwald

Film

White Males, These Are Not Your Stories to Tell

Stand-up comedian Heather Turman attacks the stage with an unapologetic sense of self. Her impeccable timing and brutal honesty have landed her on the FOX series Laughs, and as a top-finalist in the 2015 Westside Showdown in Los Angeles. No stranger to touring the country, Heather&rsquo;s infectious stage presence has entertained audiences in 20 states and over 70 different cities. Earlier this year, she was featured at the prominent RIOT LA festival, and showcased for Just For Laughs 2017. Turman wrote and starred in the comedy feature film Stuck, alongside Joel McHale, Heather Matarazzo and Kate Flannery, due out later this year. For more, visit her <a href="http://heatherbrained.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official website</a>.

Heather Turman

Why I Stopped Making Jokes About Actors

Jack Dunphy is a filmmaker, animator, actor and writer from Chicago whose short films Serenity and Chekhov have played at Sundance, AFI and festivals around the world. His latest short, Bob&#8217;s Funeral, won Best Nonfiction Short Film at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. His new podcast, Revelations with Jack Dunphy, premieres on October 15. His short film Revelations premiered at Slamdance and went on to play the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, France. His short film Brontosaurus played the True/False, Nashville, Florida, Philadelphia and Cucalorus film festivals. He starred in Assholes (directed by Peter Vack) which won the audience award at SXSW. He co-wrote Stinking Heaven, which premiered at the International Festival of Rotterdam, with Nathan Silver, and wrote, edited and produced Silver’s The Great Pretender, which played Tribeca, AFI and festivals around the world. (Photo by Shutterstock.)

Jack Dunphy

“Everybody Dies Frustrated and Sad and That is Beautiful,” or How Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Helped Me Through a Shitty Time

Zach Clark is the writer-director of The Becomers, Little Sister, White Reindeer, Vacation! and Modern Love is Automatic. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Zach Clark

Trash Cinema, Hardcore (Art) Porn and the Big, Gross Mess We Live In

Director, producer and writer Terry Sanders is a two-time Oscar winner who has produced and/or directed more than 70 award-winning dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, television specials and portrait films of major American artists, writers and musicians. His latest film, <a href="http://www.9thCircuitCowboy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span id="m_5709408443307871980m_-4260808657384927645m_17185021265065243m_-3956060566792784719m_-6883864623346689856m_-5817304636208031751m_2677551824111601205m_-28178790772395011m_2296423990611358341m_111985517381989941m_8981357065227285811gmail-docs-internal-guid-c6f9c466-7fff-3c34-287b-dc4ae8a2eb63">9th Circuit Cowboy, The Long Good Fight of Harry Pregerson</a>, is out now on VOD through Vimeo on Demand and Amazon. While at UCLA Film School, he produced and shot the Oscar-winning dramatic short film A Time Out of War, the first student film to win an Academy Award. After 10 years writing and directing narrative films with his brother Denis (including War Hunt, which introduced Robert Redford in his first movie role), Sanders joined forces with documentary film producer David Wolper and wrote, produced and directed five films including The Legend of Marilyn Monroe, narrated by John Huston. He subsequently made documentaries through the Terry Sanders Company, and in 1976 formed with his partner Freida Lee Mock the American Film Foundation, and over the next decades produced and/or directed dozens of award-winning films including Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, which won the feature documentary Oscar. Among many other awards, Sanders also won the Primetime Emmy for Lillian Gish: An Actor’s Life For Me.

Terry Sanders

What I Learned Working on The Night of the Hunter

Ana Asensio is an international actress, writer and director from Spain, living in New York. She has acted in Spanish TV drama series and independent films, produced and starred in award-winning plays, and adapted a Spanish best-selling novel into a one-woman show. Most Beautiful Island, her first feature film as a writer/director, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and will be released theatrically by Orion and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Ana Asensio

Cowboys, Aliens, Dracula and Dubbing: Memories of a Small-Screen Childhood

Kogonada is a proud immigrant, born in Seoul and raised in the Midwest. He has been noted by Filmmaker magazine (25 New Faces of Independent Film) and the New Yorker for his visual work and film criticism commissioned by the Criterion Collection and Sight &amp; Sound. He currently resides in Nashville with his wife and two sons. His directorial feature debut, <a href="https://www.columbusthemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Columbus</a>, starring John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, is in theaters from August 4.

Kogonada

You, Me, and Hirokazu (flickering memories of a conversation in my head)

Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s latest film, Strange Weather, starring Holly Hunter, is available on digital and through Netflix. Her previous features are A Good Baby (2000), Diggers (2006), and Motherhood (2009). Dieckmann was the original director on Nickelodeon’s groundbreaking series The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete, and has directed music videos for Sharon Van Etten, R.E.M., Wilco, Aimee Mann, Throwing Muses and Vic Chesnutt, among other bands. She is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of the Arts Film Program, where she teaches screenwriting.

Katherine Dieckmann

How Trump’s Victory Gave My Latest Film New Meaning

How I Found Abundance Moving from Indie Features to Episodic TV

Chrysta Bell, actress and longtime musical partner of David Lynch, released her sophomore album, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/we-dissolve/id1233754480?ls=1&amp;app=itunes">We Dissolve</a>, in June 2017. She is currently appearing in Twin Peaks in the role of FBI Agent Tamara Preston, acting alongside Miguel Ferrer and David Lynch. Lynch, who wrote and produced Chrysta Bell’s 11-song debut, This Train (2011), as well as her acclaimed 2016 EP, Somewhere in the Nowhere, says that she “is not only a killer performer, she also has a great intuitive ability to catch a mood and find a melody that’s really spectacular,” and recalls, “The first time I saw her perform, I thought she was like an alien. The most beautiful alien ever.” Bell’s professional career as musician began after being signed by RCA Victor at the age of 18 as the lead vocalist for the popular Austin-based gypsy swing act 8 ½ Souvenirs. In her four-year tenure with the band, Chrysta Bell delighted audiences on many North American tours and shared the stage with legendary musicians such as Willie Nelson and Brian Setzer. (Picture by Elias Tahan.)

Chrysta Bell

David Lynch’s Muse on the Impact He Has Had on Her Life

Victoria Negri is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and actor. Her directorial debut, <a href="http://goldstar-film.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gold Star</a>, which she also wrote and stars in, world premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival in October 2016, where it won the Audience Award, was released theatrically in fall 2017, and is currently available through Amazon Prime. Negri is currently in development on her second feature as writer-director, Ultra.

Victoria Negri

A Ghost Story and My Own Ghosts of the Past

Mark Pariselli is a writer and director based in Toronto. He graduated magna cum laude from York University with a BFA in Film Production. Retrospective programs of his short films have been presented in Toronto, Sicily, New York City and Montreal. He is currently developing his first feature. Go to <a href="http://markpariselli.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">markpariselli.com</a> for more info.

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