Zac Stuart-Pontier (The Jinx) Talks with Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Nerve, Catfish) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

To mark the release of Nerve, the movie's directors chat with their former Catfish collaborator and longtime friend Stuart-Pontier.

By Zac Stuart-Pontier, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, and Talkhouse Podcast

6:00 AM EDT on August 4, 2016

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On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, Zac Stuart-Pontier, the editor of Catfish, Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Jinx, chats with his former collaborators Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the directing team behind Catfish and the new thriller Nerve. In a wide-ranging conversation, the three old friends talk about the genesis of Catfish, favorite New York films, their movie tattoo tradition, the crazy dare in Nerve Lionsgate thought they'd done for real, their upcoming projects – including a surprising left turn from Stuart-Pontier – and their colorful memories of the Meatpacking District from back in the day. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at thetalkhouse.com/film.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink

Episode engineered and edited by Elia Einhorn

Zac Stuart-Pontier

Zac Stuart-Pontier is an editor and producer based in New York City. He cut the documentaries Catfish and NY Export: Opus Jazz, and the fiction features Martha Marcy May Marlene, Simon Killer and the upcoming Bleed for This. He was a writer, co-producer and editor on the highly acclaimed HBO series The Jinx. In 2010, he was selected by Filmmaker magazine as one of their "25 New Faces of Independent Film."

Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman

Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have been filmmaking partners since 2006 and founded the New York City production company Supermarché. They made their feature debut with the acclaimed documentary Catfish (2010), which went on to spawn the MTV series of the same name, on which they are executive producers. Their next films, Paranormal Activity 3 and Paranormal Activity 4, together grossed $350 million dollars. Their latest film, Nerve, a high-octane thriller starring Dave Franco and Emma Roberts, is out now in theaters.

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