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Christian Petzold’s latest film,<a href="https://www.12special.com/miroirs-no-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Miroirs No. 3</a>, is out now in theaters through 1-2 Special. He was born in Hilden in 1960. After studying German and theater at the Free University of Berlin, he studied film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) from 1988 to 1994. He directed his first feature film in 1995. Made in 2000, his film The State I Am In won Gold at the German Film Awards; he was awarded the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director for Barbara in 2012. His previous film, Afire, won the Berlinale Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize in 2023. (Photo by Christian Schulz, courtesy of 1-2 Special.)

Christian Petzold

Film

Three Great Things: Christian Petzold

Rod Blackhurst is a Nashville-based filmmaker whose latest film, the horror movie <a href="https://dolly.movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dolly</a>, is out now in theaters through IFC and Shudder. His first fiction feature, Here Alone, won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically by Vertical Entertainment, and his thriller Blood for Dust, starring Scoot McNairy, Nora Zehetner, Ethan Suplee, Amber Rose Mason, Stephen Dorff, Josh Lucas and Kit Harington, came out theatrically in 2024. His first documentary feature, the Netflix Original Amanda Knox, premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Rod Blackhurst

Don’t Build a New Ship, Improve the Old One

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

Radish Rocks!

Deborah Goodwin is a writer-director-producer whose work in film and television began as a development executive for Sanford-Pillsbury Productions (Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge, How to Make an American Quilt). Deborah’s Urbanworld Film Festival Best Screenplay win for her darkly provocative family drama Cherrys launched her filmmaking path. She has written for Emmy-winning and Independent Spirit Award-nominated producers, and for shows like the cult favorite horror series Tales from the Cryptkeeper. She is a Film Independent and IFP lab fellow and an ABC and NBC diversity showcase director, best known for her horror fable Vampires in Venice and her action/drama The Pastor, released by Fathom Events and AMC. Her Icelandic noir Snaeland, which she co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Vail Film Festival and screens in the Brooklyn Film Festival 2020. Deborah is a Sundance Collab advisor and screenwriting professor at Brooklyn College, and a newly minted co-creator and writer of the noir-crime-thriller series Hot Freeze, with Canadian producer Nomadic Pictures (Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing, Fargo).

Deborah Goodwin

On Weapons and Trumpism

Terrifying and Beautiful: On A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40

Allisyn Snyder is a writer, director, producer and co-owner of Watch The Footage (WTF) Productions. Her debut feature, Howdy Neighbor!, is now on the festival circuit. She began her career in the entertainment industry as an actress at only four years old, rose to prominence in her teens in the Disney Channel shows Sonny with a Chance, alongside Demi Lovato, and So Random, and is currently appearing in the NBC sitcom AP Bio opposite Glenn Howerton and Patton Oswalt. In her late teens, Allisyn began writing sketches for AwesomenessTV and created YouTube personality <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/astridclover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Astrid Clover</a>, releasing a new episode every Friday for seven years while gaining a loyal following over 350 original episodes. In 2015, Allisyn formed <a href="https://www.watchthefootageproductions.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch The Footage Productions</a> with her now-husband Dylan Snyder and began writing and producing award-winning short films such as Nasty Habits and Room 566. When not in front of or behind the camera, Allisyn enjoys ocean scuba diving and roller derby, and studies the graceful and demanding art of trapeze with her younger sister Josie. She is a prolific artist, whose dark and whimsical characters have been invited to gallery showings since she was only 15 years old.

Allisyn Snyder

Disney Stalker Support Group

Joe Lo Truglio’s debut feature as writer-director, the horror-thriller <a href="https://whatsthatnoisefilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Outpost</a>, is out now in theaters and on demand. He is best know for playing Detective Charles Boyle on the Golden Globe Award-winning comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Deputy Rizzo on Reno 911. Joe is an actor, producer and writer with a string of standout roles in such comedies as Superbad, Pineapple Express, Role Models, I Love You Man and Wanderlust. He’s also appeared in hits Wreck-It Ralph and Pitch Perfect, as well as cult classics like Wet Hot American Summer and The Station Agent. He’s had voiced roles in Bob’s Burgers, American Dad and Robot Chicken, and guest-starred on television mainstays How I Met Your Mother and Community. Joe also continues his enthusiastic participation in Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC and Drunk History on Comedy Central. Joe is a founding member of iconic sketch comedy troupe The State. He is married to actress Beth Dover, and resides in Los Angeles, California.

Joe Lo Truglio

Three Great Things: Joe Lo Truglio

Kyra Elise Gardner’s debut feature, the documentary <a href="https://www.screambox.com/details/1000000009739/Living-with-Chucky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Living with Chucky</a>, is out now on the horror streaming service Screambox and all major digital platforms in the US and Canada. With a dad in special effects makeup, blood and guts became a normality for Kyra at a young age. Combat nursing was her first goal, but she soon discovered that real blood is way grosser than the fake stuff. She&#8217;s been pursuing a career in directing since attending Florida State&#8217;s film program and plans on creating quirky fantastical films from the lore of her unconventional childhood.

Kyra Elise Gardner

Why I Stopped Seeing Filmmaking Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Krsy Fox began acting professionally at the age of 12, appearing in the films Underworld Evolution, In the Land of Women and Nightmare at the End of the Hall, and the CW series Aliens In America. She garnered three #1 radio hit songs and seven Top 10 singles with bands like Theory of a Deadman and Halestorm, toured internationally as the frontwoman of her own band Knee High Fox, and is planning a release of all new music with her latest band, Quinn. Fox also scores all of her films. Krsy began the production company OneFox Productions with fellow musician and filmmaker Spider One. After producing and directing several music videos, in 2020 Krsy wrote, directed, and starred in the short film What the Spell? and wrote, directed, edited, executive produced, and starred in the horror feature film Frank, which was released October 25th 2021. Her second feature as writer-director, I Live Alone, starring Bonnie Aarons, was released in December 2021 through Gravitas Ventures. Krsy also is the co-creator of the fiction podcast Bleeders DIEgest on the Bloody Disgusting podcast network, which releases a completely original scary story each week told in a fully immersive theatrical experience.

Krsy Fox

A Strange Girl’s Path To Creating Strange and Beautiful Things

Dana Gould has six solo stand-up comedy specials to his credit, has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan and Maron, and as an actor has had memorable turns on Seinfeld and Parks and Recreation and is one of the few actors to play his live-action self on Family Guy and The Simpsons. Dana was a writer/performer on the original Ben Stiller Show, co-created MTV&#8217;s late, lamented Super Adventure Team with Rob Cohen, and is the creator and executive producer of the IFC horror-comedy Stan Against Evil, starring John C. McGinley. He was also a co-executive producer at The Simpsons and a producer on Parks and Rec. Dana adapted Rod Serling’s original draft of the screenplay for Planet of the Apes as a graphic novel for Boom! Comics, and is currently portraying Doctor Z in his original comedy talk-show series <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/hangingwithdoctorz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hanging with Doctor Z</a>, in which his 1970s-era movie star simian interviews current celebrities. Season 2 of the show premiered online on February 14. (Photo by Andrew Max Levy.)

Dana Gould

Three Great Things: Dana Gould

Welsh-born, New York City-based artist Rod Thomas makes music as Bright Light Bright Light, creating pop music influenced heavily by cinema, with nods to the ’80s and ’90s, his formative decades (the moniker Bright Light Bright Light is a line from Gremlins), in its colorful, effervescent presentation. He has released four studio albums including the 2020 #1 UK Dance Album Fun City, which focused on the LGBTQ+ experience and featured such guest vocalists as Sam Sparro, Andy Bell of Erasure, Madonna collaborators Niki Haris and Donna De Lory, and Justin Vivian Bond, and 2016&#8217;s Choreography, which featured three songs with Elton John, all Scissor Sisters members and Grammy-nominated Mykal Kilgore. He’s also a celebrated DJ who runs the Time Out NY Recommended party &#8216;Romy &amp; Michele&#8217;s Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance,&#8217; based on one of his favorite films, and an in-demand remixer who’s worked for Jewel, Erasure, Loren Allred, Dannii Minogue, Drag Race stars Jujubee and Katya among many others. He runs his own label, YSKWN!, which also acts as an umbrella connecting and amplifying LGBTQ+ voices in the arts and local businesses. (Photo by Warren Giddarie.)

Rod Thomas

Blood and Black Lace: A Cut Above the Rest in the Lurid World of Giallo

Born in Spain and a London resident, Chino Moya’s first feature film, Undergods, which was supported by the British Film Institute and produced amongst others by Ridley Scott’s company, Scott Free, is now in select cinemas and On Demand from through Gravitas Ventures in the U.S. and will be in U.K. cinemas and on digital download from May 17 (pre-order <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/undergods/id1564105407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here)</a>. In 2009, Chino wrote and directed his first short film, Out of Here, which was selected at over 40 festivals worldwide and a year later he shot a music documentary in Israel, Below the Sea Level. His futuristic music video for 2015 Grammy winner St Vincent’s Digital Witness has appeared in Time magazine and has been listed as one of the best videos of 2014 in the Huffington Post and Rolling Stone. He has also shot commercials around the world and collected awards like a Film Lion at Cannes. In addition to his film work, in 2019 he published Flat Filters, his first comic book as a writer, illustrated by Israeli artist Tal Brosh, and his latest photography work, Monosodium Glutamate, is to be published as a photo book at the end of the year. He also created the horror cinema podcast Terrordrome.

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