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Talkhouse

Timothy Simons is an American comedian and actor best known for his role as Jonah Ryan on HBO&#8217;s hit comedy series Veep, which returns for its seventh and final season on March 31. A prolific performer, he has also appeared in such films as Inherent Vice, The Interview, Christine, Draft Day, The Boss and Beneath the Harvest Sky, which was shot in his native Maine. He lives in Los Angeles.

Timothy Simons

Brian Huskey is an American actor and comedian. An alumnus of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, he has appeared on numerous comedy TV shows, including Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien, Best Week Ever, Free Radio, The Onion News Network, Childrens Hospital, Bob&#8217;s Burgers and New Girl. Most recently, he&#8217;s had prominent roles on Another Period, People of Earth and Veep, which returns to HBO for its seventh and final season on March 31. He lives in Los Angeles.

Brian Huskey

Podcast

Timothy Simons Talks with Brian Huskey for the Talkhouse Podcast

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>.

Jim Hemphill

Film

Second Screen: The Perfectionists is Everything Pretty Little Liars Fans Could Hope For

Lev Kalman (b. 1982) and Whitney Horn (b. 1982) have been making films together since 2003, including Blondes in the Jungle, L for Leisure, Two Plains &amp; a Fancy, and Dream Team. Their distinctive style blends lo-fi 16mm photography, dreamy electronic music, philosophical musings, and steady bursts of absurdist humor. L for Leisure was praised as the “movie of the century so far” by The L Magazine, and appeared on multiple top 10 lists. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody called Two Plains &amp; a Fancy, “The most imaginative and visionary recent addition to the [Western] genre.” Their newest feature, <a href="https://yellowveilpictures.com/dream-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dream Team</a>, is available online, in theaters, and coming soon on Blu-Ray. Kalman is based in San Diego, and Horn in San Francisco.

Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Cadaver-Like Radiance: The Spiritual Kinship of Andy Warhol Films and Ghost Adventures

The New York Times called Jennifer Prediger a &#8220;busy indie actress&#8221;. She is also a busy writer, director and producer living in Los Angeles. She made her directorial debut in 2014 with collaborator Jess Weixler with their movie Apartment Troubles, starring Weixler, Prediger, Megan Mullally, Will Forte and Jeffrey Tambor. She has appeared in such movies as Joe Swanberg&#8217;s Uncle Kent, Hannah Fidell&#8217;s A Teacher, Bob Byington&#8217;s Infinity Baby, Madeleine Olnek&#8217;s The Foxy Merkins, Onur Tukel&#8217;s Applesauce and Richard&#8217;s Wedding, Alex Karpovsky&#8217;s Red Flag, and the Gotham Award-winning web series The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes. Find out more at <a href="https://www.luckyprediger.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">luckyprediger.com</a>.

Jennifer Prediger

Processing/Analyzing Russian Doll with My Therapist

Second Screen: FBI is Procedural TV Done Right

Christopher Radcliff is a New York-based filmmaker originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work includes the award-winning short films The Strange Ones (co-directed with Lauren Wolkstein) and Jonathan’s Chest, which have screened at hundreds of festivals worldwide including Sundance, SXSW, and Rotterdam. His first feature film, The Strange Ones (an expansion of the short film), was released in 2018, and was named by John Waters as one of the top 10 films of the year in Artforum.

Christopher Radcliff

Underrated/Overlooked: Christopher Radcliff on The Terror

Adam Keleman is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. His work has shown at the SXSW Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Nashville FF, and New Orleans FF. As a film journalist and critic, he has written for SOMA Magazine, AOL Moviefone, Slant and Little Joe. Adam&#8217;s short film Long Days was a Vimeo Staff Pick and won the HammerToNail Short Film Contest. He was also awarded a Jerome Foundation production grant and Film Independent AbelCine grant for his debut feature film Easy Living, which premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and will be distributed by Gravitas Ventures in September. Adam is currently developing several projects for film and TV.

Adam Keleman

Underrated/ Overlooked: Adam Keleman on Succession

Daniel Stessen writes, directs and executive produces the hybrid live-action/rotoscope animated Adult Swim series Dream Corp LLC alongside John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant. Currently in its second season, the show has already been picked up for a third. Stessen also directed the Emmy-nominated &ldquo;Goodbye Videos&rdquo; for The Office series finale that featured everyone from Will Ferrell to Rob Riggle. Additionally, his animated short The Gold Sparrow premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival and won Best Animated Short at the Berlin Independent Film Festival.

Daniel Stessen

Doctor China

Second Screen: Underneath Bull’s Style and Smarts, There’s Real Depth Too

Angie Wang is the writer-director of <a href="https://www.shoutfactory.com/blog/tag/mdma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MDMA</a>, an autobiographical &#8217;80s crime drama starring Annie Q. and Francesca Eastwood, which is in theaters from September 14 through Shout! Factory. She was born in 1965 and holds a B.A. with a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Psychology from Rutgers University. She is a survivor of not only the 1980s, but also of Silicon Valley in the 1990s, where she became a successful entrepreneur after founding her own sales and recruiting firm there. Along the way, Wang also founded <a href="http://www.grow4kids.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GROW</a>, or Global Resiliency Outreach Work, which provides innovative programs to at-risk youth that foster emotional resiliency and broaden life perspective. She believes that film is the perfect medium to tell stories that entertain, inspire thought and shift perspective. She’s actively working on script for a thriller about a New York City cop with PTSD, and a number of other ideas she has for future projects.

Angie Wang

How Sunday Night TV Helped Me Connect With My Teenage Daughter

Second Screen: How Peter Lenkov Brought Buddy Movies Back (to TV) with Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver

Claudia Weill is a film, television and theatre director. Her feature films include Girlfriends, It’s My Turn, and the Academy Award-nominated The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. She has directed theatre at Williamstown, the O’Neill, Sundance, ACT, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Public Theatre (Donald Margulies’ Found A Peanut), Pasadena Playhouse, EST and Irish Rep (The Belle of Belfast). Weill&#8217;s TV work includes Sesame Street, Thirtysomething (Emmy), My So-Called Life, Face of a Stranger (Emmy for Gena Rowlands) and Girls (HBO). She teaches TV Directing at the New School and Columbia University and serves on the Executive Committee for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to which she was the third woman admitted as a director in 1981.

Television