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Talkhouse

Tyler Taormina is a film director based in Los Angeles whose latest film, <a href="https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/christmas-eve-in-millers-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas Eve in Miller&#8217;s Point</a>, starring Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Francesca Scorsese and more, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2024 and is out now in theaters through IFC Films. His debut film, Ham on Rye, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim, including Best Films of the Year from The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Slant Magazine and more. His follow up feature, Happer’s Comet, premiered at the 2022 Berlinale and won the Special Jury Prize at the BAFICI. His work explores vast ensemble casts and draws influence from 60s European art cinema and ’90s kids television. (Photo courtesy IFC Films.)

Tyler Taormina

Film

My Life in Shitposting 

Jenny Gage is an an accomplished writer-director and photographer. Jenny’s first film, <a href="http://www.factorytwentyfive.com/all-this-panic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All This Panic</a>, premiered at Tribeca and was released theatrically in March 2017. Shot over three years, the documentary takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn and received glowing reviews from such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter. Jenny’s first narrative feature, After, starring Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin and based on the internationally best-selling novel by Anna Todd, was released by Aviron Pictures/Voltage in 2019. It went on to gross $70 million globally. As a photographer, Jenny has had her work with her partner Tom Betterton published in the pages of Vanity Fair, W magazine, and Vogue, and installed in numerous galleries and museums, including in the permanent collections of the Whitney and MOMA. Jenny is based in Los Angeles.

Jenny Gage

On Ham on Rye and Smoking Bowls