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Enid Tihanyi Zentelis is a writer and director. Her features include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated Evergreen and Tribeca&#8217;s Nora Ephron Prize-nominated Bottled Up. She created and hosts the nonfiction narrative podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-my-grandmother-won-wwii/id1550511220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How My Grandmother Won WWII</a>, which is available everywhere you get your podcasts. You can download free transcripts and subscribe for series extras <a href="http://www.patreon.com/HowMyGrandmotherWonWWII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Enid Tihanyi Zentelis

Film

Finding the Thread and Repairing the Past

Jonathan Jakubowicz is the director, writer and producer of Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy and Edgar Ramírez, which is out March 27 through IFC Films. It tells the story of how Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor later known as Marcel Marceau, joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. Jakubowicz is Venezuela&#8217;s most celebrated filmmaker and writer, and in 2005 his debut feature Secuestro Express, became Venezuela’s highest-grossing film, eclipsing such movies as Titanic. His second feature, Hands of Stone (2016), about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro) premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and released theatrically worldwide. In November 2016, Jakubowicz published his first novel, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, which immediately became a best-seller in the Spanish language market and it is on its way to become the highest selling book of all time for a Venezuelan author. Jakubowicz is of Polish Jewish descent. He has a BA in Communications from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

What Scorsese Told Me

Wes Tooke is the writer of <a href="https://midway.movie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Midway</a>, out November 8. He previously served as a writer/executive producer on USA Network’s drama Colony and co-executive producer of Amazon’s comedy Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and he currently has multiple film and television projects in development. In addition to his work in Hollywood, Tooke is also the author of Ballpark Blues (Doubleday, 2003) and two young adult novels, Lucky (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010) and King of the Mound (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2012). Ballpark Blues earned a Kirkus starred review and both of the young adult novels were Junior Library Guild selections.

Wes Tooke

Discovering My Grandfather’s Secret World War II Legacy

World War II