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Phoebe Nir is the writer-director of the new film Eco Village, starring Sidney Flanigan, Alex Breaux and Lindsay Burdge, which will premiere at the <a href="https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/eco-village" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam</a> on February 1. She holds a BA from Brown University in Writing for Performance and an MA in Drama Therapy from New York University. Her work in musical theater has been showcased in New York City at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s 54 Below, LaMaMa Theater, and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. As a singer-songwriter, she released two critically acclaimed EPs –Side Hustle and Red Tape Nation – and opened for the Modern English and James Chance &amp; the Contortions at SXSW. Find her @phoebe_devere on TikTok and YouTube to learn more about Oxfordianism, the theory that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the works of William Shakespeare under a penname.

Phoebe Nir

Film

What Dreams Are Made Of: On Lizzie McGuire and the Sexual Innocence of Early 2000s Cinema

Julia Marchese is a filmmaker, actor, podcaster, cinephile and film programmer living in Hollywood, California. Her first film was the award-winning documentary Out of Print, about the importance of revival cinema and 35 mm exhibition to culture, and she is currently the co-host of the popular horror podcast Horror Movie Survival Guide. She recently crowdfunded on <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-know-what-you-need-a-stephen-king-adaptation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieGoGo</a> for her forthcoming Dollar Baby short film I Know What You Need, based on Stephen King&#8217;s story of the same name from Night Shift. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @juliacmarchese.

Julia Marchese

My 1976 Jodie Fosterthon

Enid Tihanyi Zentelis is a writer and director. Her features include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated Evergreen and Tribeca&#8217;s Nora Ephron Prize-nominated Bottled Up. She created and hosts the nonfiction narrative podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-grandmother-won-wwii/id1550511220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How My Grandmother Won WWII</a>, which is available everywhere you get your podcasts. You can download free transcripts and subscribe for series extras <a href="http://www.patreon.com/HowMyGrandmotherWonWWII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Enid Tihanyi Zentelis

The Zone of Interest and Hope for Humanity

Cassius Michael Kim’s new documentary about 1MDB and Jho Low, Man on the Run, is now streaming on Netflix. Kim is a director, producer, and writer who helped create the CNN Original Series, The Wonder List with Bill Weir, directing and producing half of the show’s twenty documentary hours from locations as diverse as Vanuatu, Madagascar, and Egypt. Prior to joining CNN, Cassius worked at ABC News. He began his career at the independent film production company This is That. Most recently, Kim produced and filmed Stockton On My Mind, about Mayor Michael Tubbs Jr. and the city of Stockton, CA, which was nominated in the category of Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary for the 2021 News &amp; Documentary Emmy® Awards.

Cassius Michael Kim

The Root of All Evil

Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

Anna Zlokovic is an award-winning writer-director based in Los Angeles. Her work has screened internationally at festivals including Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance Film Festival, and Fantasia Film Festival. Anna was a fellow of Tribeca and Chanel&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Filmmaker Program: Through Her Lens. Anna&#8217;s debut feature film, <a href="https://www.hulu.com/movie/appendage-5dee6ffc-dfb6-425e-b3b2-d665241e99b4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Appendage</a>, had its World Premiere at SXSW 2023 and is now streaming on Hulu. Anna was named one of IndieWire&#8217;s 28 Rising Female Filmmakers to Watch in 2023.

Anna Zlokovic

Thoughts on Suffering for Your Art

Savannah Knoop is a New York City-based filmmaker, artist, and writer whose work travels between fiction and documentary, lived experience and imagined fantasy. They have performed and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. They adapted their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy (published with Seven Stories Press) into a feature-length film, co-written and directed by Justin Kelly, and starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Kelvin Harris Jr., Jim Sturgess, and Diane Kruger. J.T. Leroy was released in theaters in April 2019 by Universal Pictures Content Group, is currently available On Demand and Digital and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on June 4th.

Savannah Knoop

Tour de North Brooklyn

Chase Joliet is an actor and filmmaker from Dallas, Texas, whose debut feature as writer-director, Grapefruit, in which he stars opposite Rosanna Arquette and Steph Barkley, is now on the festival circuit. He worked with legendary director Terrence Malick for a number of years on To the Wonder, Voyage of Time and Song to Song, after which he produced his first independent feature film, Krisha, which won SXSW Grand Jury award and audience award before playing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Chase won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2016 Indie Spirit awards and went on to help develop Trey Edward Shults’ second feature, It Comes at Night. Chase’s short film directorial debut, the comedic short Everything Mattress, won multiple audience awards and is currently being sold in European Territories.

Chase Joliet

Finding Compassion, or Why My Mom is My Tripwire

Cedric Cheung-Lau’s debut feature, the Nepal-set drama <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/the-mountains-are-a-dream-that-call-to-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mountains are a Dream That Call to Me</a>, is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel. He is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and lighting director based in occupied Lenapehoking (New York City, USA). He spent nearly a decade developing The Mountains are a Dream that Call to Me, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2020. Prior to that, he directed a short, Topography of a Hotel, that premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival. His cinematography can be seen in the work of directors Wen Shipei, the brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri, Maggie Briggs and Federico Spiazzi whose works have shown at Cannes, Berlin, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, AFI Film Fest, and many others.

Cedric Cheung-Lau

A Memory of Home

Paris Zarcilla is a British Filipino BIFA-nominated film and television director-writer who aims to create meaningful, profound and genre-bending stories. His debut feature, Raging Grace, won the Narrative Feature Jury Award and Thunderbird Rising Award for Best Debut at SXSW 2023. His award-winning short film Pommel has screened all over the world at leading festivals. In 2020, Paris wrote and directed the primetime TV drama The Century Egg (Starhub) produced by the Emmy-nominated studio Refinery Media. Zarcilla currently resides in London.

Paris Zarcilla

A Place Beyond Rage

Lila Schmitz’s first feature, The Job of Songs, an Irish music documentary that she directed, produced and edited, premiered at DOC NYC in 2021 and is now out on digital. It premiered internationally at the Galway Film Fleadh 2022, winning Best International Documentary. Her short films (both documentary and fiction) have aired on Rocky Mountain PBS, played LGBTQ+ festivals all over the United States, and premiered internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She spent time producing in the documentary world (for PBS, CBS, Richard Linklater, Bill Guttentag) and worked at Anonymous Content for a year, learning about development and the business side of Hollywood. She currently works for Dropout TV, a media company that makes unscripted comedy, and can often be found trying (and failing) to learn an instrument.

Lila Schmitz

Journey Through a Filmmaker’s Anxious Mind

Judy Irving is a Sundance- and Emmy award-winning filmmaker of <a href="https://www.pelicanmedia.org/wild-parrots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill</a>, a feature documentary about the relationship between a homeless street musician and a flock of wild parrots in San Francisco which is now being re-released in a restored version for its 20th anniversary. Her other work includes Dark Circle, a personal film about the impact of the nuclear industry on residents of Colorado, California, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki; Pelican Dreams, about Brown Pelicans and those who know and love them; and Cold Refuge, which premiered in 2023, about how swimming in San Francisco Bay mitigates life’s major challenges. In 2015, Judy was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch. She lives on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco with her husband, Mark Bittner, and two rescue parrots from the wild flock.

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