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The 2020 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors’ Top Films of the Year

The 2018 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors’ Top Films of the Year

Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, <a href="http://ofherbeauty.com">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,</a> which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.

Terence Nance

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq

Ian Harnarine&#8216;s short film <a href="http://www.doubleswithslightpepper.com/" target="_blank">Doubles With Slight Pepper</a> won the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Academy Award. He is currently working on a feature-length version. In addition to making films, he teaches both in the Physics Department and Graduate Film School at New York University.

Ian Harnarine

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey