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Lovell Holder has produced the critically acclaimed feature films The Surrender, Peak Season, Midday Black Midnight Blue, The End of Us, Working Man, Some Freaks, and Loserville (which he also directed). He recently celebrated the theatrical release of his feature film adaptation of the play Lavender Men, which he directed, co-wrote, and produced. Collectively his films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Fantasia, Santa Barbara, Outfest and BFI Flare. His debut novel, The Book of Luke, will be published by Grand Central Publishing (an imprint of Hachette) in hardcover and audiobook in December 2025. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Brown University, where he received his MFA in acting. (Photo by Luke Fontana.)

Lovell Holder

Film

Heads Carolina, Tails California

Katherine Propper is a writer-director born and raised in Los Angeles. Her feature directorial debut, <a href="https://kinolorber.com/film/lost-soulz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lost Soulz</a>, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2023 and is now in theaters through Kino Lorber. Her 2022 short film Birds won the Grand Jury Prize at AFI Fest, a Special Jury Award for Vision at SXSW, and a Special Jury Prize in the International Competition at Clermont-Ferrand in France. Her 2019 short film Street Flame screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. She enjoys merging both fictional and non-fictional worlds in her filmmaking, and drawing upon experiences including working on director Terrence Malick&#8217;s editing team. Her short films can be streamed on The New Yorker, Short of the Week and Omeleto. Katherine received her MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Art History from Georgetown University.

Katherine Propper

Lost Soulz Longing for a Home

Karla Murthy is an Emmy Award-nominated producer whose latest feature documentary, The Gas Station Attendant, has its world premiere at the <a href="https://www.sheffdocfest.com/film/gas-station-attendant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheffield DocFest</a> on June 19. She previously directed and produced the 2020 feature doc The Place That Makes Us, about a new generation rebuilding home in Youngstown, Ohio, and the 2023 documentary short <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/love-jamie-short/33061/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love, Jamie</a>. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers, and has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years. Her work was cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent. She graduated from Oberlin College, is an alum of the Third World Newsreel Workshop and the Documentary Institute at Antioch College in Ohio.

Karla Murthy

Finding Home

Writer-director Julio Vincent Gambuto’s new book, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Please-Unsubscribe-Thanks!/Julio-Vincent-Gambuto/9781668009543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!</a>, is published by Simon &amp; Schuster on August 8, 2023. His 2019 debut feature, <a href="http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/team-marco/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Team Marco</a>, is out now on digital. The son of a bus-driver-slash-bread-baker, &#8220;Julie&#8221; grew up in a large Italian family on Staten Island, where aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered often around Mom&#8217;s seafoam-green formica kitchen table for “cake and coffee” — always an Entenmann’s crumb cake — to tell stories, argue about the Mets, and play cards with the neighbors. He graduated Harvard with a BA in English and American Literature and Language, with honors, and completed his training as a film director at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was honored as an Annenberg Fellow. In 2020, Julio continues his writing and directing work. In 2017, Julio founded <a href="https://www.meetborofive.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boro Five</a>, an independent film and television content production company. He serves as Executive Producer of the company’s slate. Julio has written and produced film and television content for Nickelodeon, PBS, E! Entertainment, and James Franco’s Rabbit Bandini. Julio lives in New York City.

Julio Vincent Gambuto

What Happened When I Came Back Home to Staten Island to Make My First Movie

Hilary Brougher is a screenwriter and director living and working in New York City. <a href="https://southmountainfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Mountain</a>, her third original feature, premiered at SXSW on 2019 and is on VOD from May 5. Her first feature, Sticky Fingers of Time, was an official selection at the Venice, Rotterdam, SXSW, and Toronto International Film Festivals and was released theatrically in 1997. Her second feature, Stephanie Daley, starred Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tim Hutton and Denis O’Hare, and premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Award for Screenwriting. She is currently working on a documentary, Striper, co-directed with Maria Rosenblum. Brougher is the Chair of the Film Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts as well as a full-time member of faculty in directing in the MFA program.

Hilary Brougher

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