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Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer-director and publishes short fiction under the name Rae Canaan. Her most recent film, <a href="https://www.audreyschildren.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Audrey’s Children</a>, starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans has won awards at Philadelphia Film Festival, TribecaX and Stony Brook Film Festival, and is in theaters now. Her feature films Texas Killing Fields and Jackie and Ryan were nominated at the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion and Orizzonti, respectively. Ami attended the USC School of Cinema / Television production program, is a 2022 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has written and directed professionally for more than 20 years.

Ami Canaan Mann

Film

The Lens is Never Neutral: How to Shoot a Crime Scene

Diane Warren, the subject of the new documentary <a href="https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/diane-warren-relentless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Warren: Relentless</a> (which is in theaters from tomorrow and streaming on MasterClass starting January 23), is one of the most prolific and celebrated songwriters of all time, with a four-decade track record of writing mega-hits for industry giants. Boasting 15 Academy Award nominations, an Honorary Oscar along with Grammy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards, Diane has etched her name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is responsible for some of the most iconic songs of our time. She has penned nine #1 and thirty-three top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and is tied for having written the most #1 songs as a sole writer in Billboard history. Her distinguished catalog features beloved songs including “Only Love Can Hurt Like This,” “Un-Break My Heart,” “If I Could Turn Back Time” and “Rhythm of the Night.” She is the sole owner of her publishing company Realsongs, the most successful female-owned and operated business in the music industry.

Diane Warren

Best of 2024: Diane Warren on Movies About Animals and Serial Killers

Kevin Smokler is a writer, documentary filmmaker and event host with a focus on pop culture. He’s the author of book Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies (2016) and the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School (2013). In 2020, he co-directed the documentary film <a href="https://vinylnationfilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vinyl Nation </a>on the contemporary renaissance of vinyl records in America. He’s appeared in conversation onstage with comedians, playwrights, authors, magazine publishers, architects, musicians and filmmakers for the past two decades and lives in San Francisco.

Kevin Smokler

Flock of the Lambs: The Legacy of The Silence of the Lambs at 30

Stuart Gordon was a writer-director-producer of film, television and theater. He is best known for the cult classic Re-Animator and for having murdered his wife Carolyn in his films whenever possible.

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Cannibal

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