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Jason Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 Sundance hit Thank You for Smoking, and notably earned Academy Award nominations for directing Juno and Up in the Air. His other films include Young Adult, Labor Day and Men, Women and Children. He recently executive produced the Academy Award-winning film Whiplash and produces the Hulu comedy series Casual. He next will direct for Dreamworks the animated feature film Beekle, about an imaginary character who sets off on a journey to find a friend.

Jason Reitman

Film

Best of 2018: Jason Reitman Talks Hannah Fidell’s The Long Dumb Road and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War

Josephine Decker’s latest feature <a href="https://neonrated.com/films/shirley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shirley</a>, starring Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young and Logan Lerman, premiered in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is released on Hulu, VOD and participating drive-ins June 5, 2020. Her previous feature, Madeline’s Madeline, world premiered at Sundance 2018; it was hailed as a “mind-scrambling masterpiece” and was nominated for Best Picture at IFP’s Gotham Awards and for two Independent Spirit Awards. Josephine premiered her first two narrative features, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch, at the Berlinale Forum 2014 to critical acclaim. She also explores collaborative storytelling via TV directing, documentary making, performance art, accordion-playing, acting, teaching at CalArts and Princeton University, and leading artist residencies with the School of Making Thinking.

Josephine Decker

Hannah Fidell is a writer, producer, and director. Her feature films include A Teacher (2013 Sundance Film Festival) and 6 Years (2015 SXSW Film Festival). In 2016, Fidell was inducted into the Director’s Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences. The Long Dumb Road, her third feature and her first comedy, stars Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas and premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival; it is being released theatrically in November.

Hannah Fidell

Podcast

Hannah Fidell (The Long Dumb Road) Talks with Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline) for the Talkhouse Podcast