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Rachel Elizabeth Seed is an LA-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography, and writing. Her debut feature film, <a href="https://www.rachelseed.com/#/apm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Photographic Memory</a>, premiered at True/False 2024 and was cited as “one of the best docs of the year” by Rogerebert.com and “an ingenious, meta doc” by Variety. Rachel’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Pictures, NYFA, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant, the Jewish Film Institute, Jewish Story Partners, and IFP/Gotham Labs, among many others. Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography and she was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries including Sacred by Academy-Award winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon. Rachel’s writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute and Talkhouse

Rachel Elizabeth Seed

Film

Integrity vs. Innovation: How AI is Redefining Documentary Filmmaking

Kirsten Johnson is a cinematographer and director. Her directorial feature debut, Cameraperson, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, won numerous awards and was released theatrically by Janus Films to great acclaim. Her short film The Above premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival in the The Intercept’s Field of Vision launch. Her most recent camerawork appears in Oscar-winning Citizenfour and Very Semi-Serious. Her credits include The Invisible War, Asylum and Fahrenheit 9/11. She lives in New York City. (Photo by Kathy Leichter.)

Kirsten Johnson

Revisited: Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) Talks with Agnès Varda for the Talkhouse Podcast

Reinaldo Marcus Green is a thesis student at NYU&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts. His films have screened at many film festivals around the world including Festival de Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, and LAFF, and have garnered distribution and been televised by HBO and Condé Nast. While at NYU, he has worked as an assistant to directors Kasi Lemmons and Todd Solondz and received the 2014 Honorarium Award from the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation.

Reinaldo Marcus Green

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

From short experimental videos (Third Known Nest) to installations and live performances of music and film (My Silent One) to feature-length narratives (Swoon, Savage Grace), Tom Kalin’s award-winning work has been screened throughout the world. A producer of the films I Shot Andy Warhol and Go Fish, he was also a member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury. He is a Columbia University Professor in film, teaching directing.

Tom Kalin

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

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Tom Kalin, Eliza Hittman, Reinaldo Marcus Green and Kirsten Johnson Talk the Oscars on the Talkhouse Podcast

Carrie Brownstein writes and stars in the Emmy-nominated, Peabody- and WGA Award-winning television show Portlandia. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the Believer, Vanity Fair and numerous book anthologies on music and culture. Brownstein was also a member of the band Sleater-Kinney. She is currently working on a memoir. Follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/carrie_rachel" target="_blank">here</a>.

Carrie Brownstein

Documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk has produced more than 200 national television programs. Kirk was the senior producer of Frontline from the series’ inception in 1983 until the fall of 1987, when he created his own production company, the Kirk Documentary Group. Kirk is the winner of every major award in journalism, including four Peabody Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, two George Polk Awards, 15 Emmy Awards, and 11 Writers Guild of America Awards. Learn more about his work <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/person/michael-kirk/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Michael Kirk

Three-time Emmy nominated writer, director, producer, and standup comedian Neal Brennan’s new hour special, 3 Mics, is now on Netflix, having previously enjoyed a successful off-Broadway run in NYC with superstar musician John Legend serving as producer. Brennan is also currently a writer and Creative Consultant on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Brennan co-created Comedy Central’s legendary Chappelle’s Show, for which he received three Emmy nominations; one for directing, one for writing, and one for producing. Together, Brennan and Dave Chappelle wrote and produced virtually every sketch on the show themselves, and also together also co-wrote the movie Half-Baked. Brennan directed the 2009 comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, as well as episodes of such TV shows as New Girl, Inside Amy Schumer and The Mindy Project. (Picture by Tyler Ross.)

Neal Brennan

Jeanie Finlay is a British artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personal documentary films and artworks. Her focus is on creating compelling portraits and is obsessed with telling other people’s stories. Her work is known for its innovative approach to engaging with audiences in meaningful ways. Her documentaries includes Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Seahorse, Orion: The Man Who Would Be King, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, Sound It Out, Goth Cruise and Teenland. Her latest film, <a href="https://firehouse.dctvny.org/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=406302~2998286f-8e4b-4c31-9017-dcced8ffebb3&amp;_gl=1*1bdd0ra*_gcl_au*NTI5MTY4NDI1LjE3MDE5ODQ5MDQ." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your Fat Friend</a>, is now playing at DCTV&#8217;s Firehouse Cinema in New York City. (Photo by Jo Irvine.)

Jeanie Finlay

Morgan Spurlock is an award-winning and Academy Award-nominated writer, director and producer and president and founder of full-service New York-based production studio Warrior Poets. His first film, the multi-award-winning Super Size Me, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 garnered a Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary. Since then he has directed, produced and distributed numerous film, television and digital projects, including the critically acclaimed CNN television series Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, Showtime’s 7 Deadly Sins, the FX series 30 Days and the films Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, the Emmy- and WGA-nominated The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!, Freakonomics, Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope, Mansome, One Direction: This Is Us and Rats. Find out more at his <a href="http://morganspurlock.com/" target="_blank">official website</a>.

Morgan Spurlock

The Best Moments of Winter 2017 on the Talkhouse Film Podcast

Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) Talks with Agnès Varda for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Ian Olds is a director of both narrative and documentary work. Olds’ Burn Country, which world-premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded the festival’s Best Actor prize for lead Dominic Rains, opens December 9, 2016. Olds&#8217; previous directing credits include the Independent Spirit Award-winning Iraq war doc Occupation: Dreamland; the Emmy-nominated Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi; and the doc/fiction hybrid Francophrenia, with James Franco. Olds was named one of Filmmaker magazine&#8217;s &#8220;25 New Faces of Independent Film&#8221; in 2009.

Ian Olds

Why Now We Must Make Work That Truly Matters

Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Town Hall, was broadcast on PBS in 2014. She produced the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer, which premiered at Sundance in 2013, and is currently producing The Reagan Years, an all-archival film directed by Pacho Velez.