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Maggie Grace currently stars as Jessie in the new romantic comedy Love, Weddings &amp; Other Disasters, out December 4 in theaters and on demand through Saban Films. She first made a name for herself in the acting world when she secured a role for herself on the hit TV series Lost. Grace won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series along with the rest of the Lost cast. Soon after, she went on to star in a multitude of commercially successful films such as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 &amp; 2 and all three Taken films. In addition to her career on screen, Grace has found success on the stage as well. In 2012, Grace debuted alongside Sebastian Stan in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic. Today, Grace maintains her status as a series regular on the beloved, award-winning TV show Fear the Walking Dead.

Maggie Grace

Film

Best of 2020: Maggie Grace on First Cow

Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, <a href="https://a24films.com/films/first-cow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Cow</a>, is in theaters through A24 Films from March 6. A retrospective of Reichardt&#8217;s work took place at the Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2017. Her other feature films include: River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013) and Certain Women (2016). She has received grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has played at the Whitney Biennial, and at festivals including Cannes, Venice, Sundance. Berlin and Toronto. Retrospectives of her films have been held at Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the Moving Image, Walker Art Center, American Cinematheque Los Angeles and the European Touring Retrospective. She is currently S. William Senfeld Artist-in-Residence at Bard College.

Kelly Reichardt

Podcast

Kelly Reichardt Talks with Olivier Assayas for the Talkhouse Podcast

Hope Dickson Leach completed her MFA in filmmaking at Columbia University, where she made three short films that played at festivals worldwide. Screen International made her a Star of Tomorrow and Filmmaker magazine named her one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Her debut feature, <a href="https://www.montereymedia.com/thelevelling" target="_blank">The Levelling</a>, which premiered at TIFF and won Dickson Leach the inaugural IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award at the London Film Festival, is currently playing in Chicago goes on release in Los Angeles on March 31. Hope is currently developing several features and is a co-founder of <a href="http://www.raisingfilms.com/" target="_blank">Raising Films</a>, a campaign to make the film industry more parent-friendly. She lives in Scotland with her husband and two sons.

Hope Dickson Leach

Kelly Reichardt and Humanism as a Political Statement

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked with Steve Harvey, Lee Daniels, John Cameron Mitchell, Xan Cassavetes, John Krokidas and David France. He produced Jonathan Caouette&rsquo;s landmark &ldquo;narci-cinema&rdquo;&nbsp;documentary&nbsp;Tarnation&nbsp;(A.O. Scott, New York Times).&nbsp;Stephen&#8217;s 2015 film Jason and Shirley, which he wrote and directed, was called &#8220;one of the year&#8217;s finest&#8221; by Richard Brody in The New Yorker. (Photo by shean.)

Stephen Winter

Your Non-Stop, No-B.S. Guide to 2016’s Movies (and Other Indignities)

Eliza Hittman is an award-winning filmmaker, born and based in New York City. Her critically acclaimed debut feature film, It Felt Like Love,&nbsp;premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and was released in 2014 by Variance Films.&nbsp;She received an MFA from CalArts, School of Film / Video (2010) and&nbsp;teaches graduate level film directing at Columbia University, School of the Arts.

Eliza Hittman

Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love) Talks Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves