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Bruce LaBruce is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist whose work is known for pushing boundaries and blurring the lines between independent film and pornography. Along with numerous short films, he has written and directed fourteen feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2012.……

Luca Guadagnino is an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter, and producer known for his visually arresting style and his affecting psychological portraits. He is currently in production on Challengers starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, and in post-production on the hotly anticipated Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell.  Guadagnino’s varied credits include the Academy Award, Golden Globe……

It’s hard to imagine what the American film landscape would look like without Richard Linklater. Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Often his work explored what he dubbed “the youth rebellion continuum,” definitively capturing the 20-something culture of his era and……

To describe the work of John Cameron Mitchell as groundbreaking would be an understatement. As co-writer, director, and star, Mitchell’s film adaptation of his hit Off-Broadway play HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH burst onto the scene at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival where he was honored as Best Director. Through its many iterations, Hedwig became……

Sean Baker’s work defines a new social realism in US cinema, focusing on modern, marginalized characters through a compassionate and often humorous lens. He is the director and co-writer of the highly lauded film, The Florida Project, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released by A24 and was nominated for……

Over the past 18 years, Sofia Coppola has become one of America’s most singular filmmakers, often creating dream-like filmscapes that transport viewers to strange-yet-familiar worlds. Her storied career as a feature writer, director, and producer began with The Virgin Suicides. With a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, The Virgin Suicides subsequently earned her……

ANG LEE (Director/Producer) is a three-time Academy Award winner and one of the world’s most revered and honored directors.   His film LIFE OF PI, which he directed and produced, was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning prizes for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score. In addition, the film received nine……

Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky was born and raised in Brooklyn. Aronofsky heads Protozoa Pictures based in Chinatown NYC.   His upcoming film “The Whale” for A24 stars Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, and Samantha Morton.  Aronofsky wrote and directed 2017’s “mother!” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. Before that, Aronofsky made the 2014 box……

Kevin Smith has been saying silly cinematic shit since 1994’s Clerks. 2022 marks the 28th year since the last time he had a real job. 

GREGG most recently directed on MONSTER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER STORY, Ryan Murphy’s hit Limited Series for Netflix. GREGG has been incredibly in demand in television, including creating, co-writing and directing all 10 episodes of NOW APOCALYPSE (Starz). The series was executive produced by GREGG ARAKI, Steven Soderbergh, Pavlina Hatoupis and Gregory Jacobs. A fixture in……

James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, director and business executive, and he’s been a mainstay of independent filmmaking for over three decades. In 2015, Schamus launched Symbolic Exchange, a New York based film development company focused on supporting diverse, emerging voices. Symbolic’s most recent films are Kitty Green’s “The Assistant,” starring Julia Garner (which……

Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over the past two decades, they have produced over 100 films, including some of the most celebrated American indie features: CAROL, FAR FROM HEAVEN, STILL ALICE, BOYS DON’T CRY, KIDS, HEDWIG AND……