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Gaetano Kazuo Maida is a filmmaker and serves as executive director of the nonprofit Buddhist Film Foundation, which produces the International Buddhist Film Festival and Buddhist Film Channel. He was a founding director of the U.S. Buddhist quarterly Tricycle.
Robert Rubsam writes fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Baffler, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, Poetry, Vulture, and MUBI Notebook.
Genevieve Yue is an associate professor of culture and media at the New School and the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (2020) and Trains (due out in fall 2026).
Lynn Anthony Higgins is the Edward Tuck Professor Emerita of French Studies at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with the Film & Media Studies Department. She is the author of Bertrand Tavernier (in Manchester University Press’s French Film...
Murtada Elfadl is a culture writer, critic, and film curator. Born and raised in Khartoum, Sudan he currently resides in New York. His work has appeared in Variety, SEEN , and the A.V. Club, among other publications. He is a...
Joachim Trier is a Norwegian Danish filmmaker. He is a multiple-time Oscar nominee and the winner of Norway’s first Academy Award for a fiction feature film, as well as its first BAFTA award, Golden Globe, and Cannes Film Festival Grand...
Gabriel Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man and editor of Martin Ritt: Interviews, and has written books on Clifford Odets and William...
Willow Catelyn Maclay is a film essayist and queer historian. She is coauthor of Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema and has written for numerous outlets including the Village Voice, Reverse Shot, and Film...
Tasha Robinson has been an entertainment and culture writer and editor at the A.V. Club, the Dissolve, the Verge, and Polygon, and has written for NPR, the Chicago Tribune, io9, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications....
Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens, New York, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out now.