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Nick August-Perna’s latest feature documentary, Tell Them You Love Me, won the jury award for best documentary feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival, was released in the UK in February 2024 to critical acclaim and is currently streaming on Netflix. He is an award-winning director, producer, and editor whose work has been nominated for the Emmys, the Duponts and the Academy Awards. His directorial work aims to present stories that challenge the shape and power of the documentary form, to inspire discourse, and to build empathy.

Nick August-Perna

Film

The Strange Case of Tell Them You Love Me

Emily Ting is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. She most recently directed Netflix’s Tall Girl 2, the sequel to the hit teen rom-com, starring Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, and Sabrina Carpenter, which is out now worldwide on Netflix. Her first feature, Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, starring real-life couple Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg, premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival and was distributed theatrically by Gravitas Ventures in 2016. Emily’s second feature, Go Back to China, starring Anna Akana, Richard Ng and Kelly Hu, premiered in competition at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and was released theatrically in March 2020, a week before lockdown. Next up, Emily is developing a holiday film she co-wrote with Melynda Bissmeyer for Hallmark called Christmas at the Golden Dragon. Emily currently resides in Los Angeles and is mom to her twins Austin and Celeste.

Emily Ting

What I Learned Directing My First Studio Film

Richard Kind currently stars as The Architect in The Social Ones, which is available now on all digital and cable platforms. He is an accomplished stage, screen and television performer who continues to redefine the term character actor. Richard appeared in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture Argo for director Ben Affleck and starred as ‘Bing Bong’ in the hit Pixar film Inside Out. He played a memorable, heartbreaking role in Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, was Uncle Arthur in the critically acclaimed A Serious Man written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and worked a second time with the Coen brothers in Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney. Additional film credits include a two time collaboration with Tom McCarthy in The Visitor and The Station Agent. He has voiced characters in A Bug’s Life, Cars and the television series Summer Camp Island, Big Mouth and American Dad. Apart from his infamous roles on Spin City and Mad About You, Richard was also a series regular on the acclaimed HBO series Luck as well as three seasons on Amazon’s Red Oaks. This season, Richard will reprise his recurring role as Cousin Andy on Curb Your Enthusiasm and most recently he completed shooting a season of Brockmire opposite Hank Azaria.

Richard Kind

The Way We Get By: Richard Kind on Quarantine Isolation and Babylon Berlin

Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme co-directed the “Slumlord Millionaire” episode of Netflix’s Dirty Money docu-series. Previously, they were co-writers and directors of Get Me Roger Stone. Together they have written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and Talkhouse.

Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme

Investigating Jared Kushner in the Golden Age of Documentary Journalism

Laura Terruso is a screenwriter, director and producer. Her latest comedy, Work It, will premiere on Netflix later this summer.&nbsp;Her previous film, Good Girls Get High, will be available on HBO Max in July. Her feature debut as writer-director, Fits And Starts,&nbsp;premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and is available on Amazon. She co-wrote and co-produced the film&nbsp;Hello, My Name Is Doris, starring Sally Field and directed by Michael Showalter. The feature is based on her short film&nbsp;Doris &amp; The Intern. Released by Roadside Attractions, Hello, My Name Is Doris went on to become one of the top grossing indies of 2016. Laura attended NYU&rsquo;s graduate film program at the Tisch School of the Arts. She is repped by CAA, Industry Entertainment and SGSBC.

Laura Terruso

How Do We Get Back to Work During Coronavirus? By Embracing Our Indie Roots

Jim Norton has emerged as one of the most versatile, unique voices in comedy; he is a two-time NY Times bestselling author, sells out theaters nationwide as a standup comedian, and can be heard every morning on The Jim Norton &amp; Sam Roberts Show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. He can currently be seen in the Martin Scorsese-directed Netflix feature The Irishman, and his episode of Netflix’s The Degenerates premiered at the beginning of 2020. Jim’s fifth hour standup special Mouthful of Shame is currently streaming on Netflix; his other one-hour comedy specials can be seen on Hulu, Amazon and HBO GO. He has also co-hosted UFC’s wildly popular Unfiltered Podcast with Jim Norton &amp; Matt Serra since 2016 and he has appeared in several comedy fan-favorite TV series, including Louie, Crashing, and Power. Since 2014, Jim has been a contributor to Time Magazine. Both of Jim’s books, I Hate Your Guts (2008) and Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch (2007), published by Simon &amp; Schuster, spent several weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. He lives in New York City. For more information, go to <a href="http://www.JimNorton.com/">JimNorton.com</a>.

Jim Norton

The Way We Get By: Jim Norton on Tiger King

Liz Garbus is a two-time Academy Award®-Nominee, two-time Emmy Winner, Peabody Winner, Grammy Nominee, DGA Nominee, BAFTA-nominated director. Lost Girls, Garbus’ narrative feature debut, stars Amy Ryan, Gabriel Byrne, and Thomasin McKenzie, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is released in theaters and on Netflix on March 13. Her work as a highly acclaimed award-winning documentary filmmaker includes the television series Who Killed Garrett Phillips? and The Fourth Estate, and the features A Dangerous Son, Bobby Fischer Against the World, The Farm: Angola and There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane. In 2019, Garbus along with Academy Award®-Winning Producer Dan Cogan founded Story Syndicate, a Dumbo-based film and television production company. Under Story Syndicate, Garbus is in production on a series based on Michelle McNamara’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”, (HBO), a feature on Jacques Cousteau, (National Geographic), as well as others in development. Two amazing children keep her sane.

Liz Garbus

Three Great Things: Liz Garbus

Aron Eli Coleite is the showrunner and executive producer of Daybreak, which premiered on October 24 on Netflix, starring Matthew Broderick. Aron is also the Executive Producer of Locke &amp; Key, an adaptation of Joe Hill’s graphic novel, premiering on Netflix in 2020. Previously, Coleite worked on Season 1 of CBS’ Star Trek Discovery where he received a Saturn Award and a Hugo Nomination for his work. He got his start on the acclaimed NBC series Heroes and on the feature side, he recently adapted the iconic, best-selling graphic novel Amulet for 20th Century Fox with Temple Hill producing. (Image courtesy Netflix / Starpix.)

Aron Eli Coleite

Why I’m Still Reliving High School

Kelly Loudenberg is a filmmaker and artist who has been exploring the American justice system for more than a decade, most recently through The Confession Tapes, the Netflix series she created and directed. This project has grown out of her work profiling individuals, systems and the grey areas of culpability and coercion. Kelly has contributed to the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. Her work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Monte Vista Projects, SXSW Film Festival, and the Guggenheim Labs. She has also been artist-in-residence at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. More at <a href="http://www.kellyloudenberg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.kellyloudenberg.com</a>.

Kelly Loudenberg

The “Lost” Pilot Episode of Exhibit A in Words and Photos

Shamir is Shamir and remains Shamir through and through, no matter what the universe puts him through. You may know the singularly named artist (think—Madonna or Cher) from his 2015 debut hit record Rachet, beloved by NPR listeners and club kids alike. After quickly rising to underground fame with his Northtown EP in 2014, the DIY pop star made a sonic splash with Rachet’s lead single “On The Regular,” a poppy banger that had extensive commercial usage. But how to follow all that up? Shamir, who came from the dusty dunes of Las Vegas, to Brooklyn’s Silent Barn, to the Philly indie scene (and all over the world in between), wanted to go back to what had inspired him from the beginning. Outsider music, country &amp; punk. Raw and vulnerable tunes, stripped down to their emotional core. 2017’s Revelations explored a new avenue of guitar driven hooky indie rock and was widely critically praised in the US and overseas.
Shamir’s most recent releases, the brilliant Room 7” on Father/Daughter, and his self-released limited edition album, Resolution, are pinnacles in the catalog of the increasingly fascinating artist’s career. Room and its b-side Caballero celebrate Shamir’s love of country music, while Resolution is a deeply introspective look into the fabric of society and the artists’ own mind.  With these two releases he has refined his craft exponentially and done so in less than six months from the release of Revelations.

Shamir Bailey

Ratchet TV: Wanda Sykes’s Not Normal

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

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