The Hindenburg

Laura Kern is a writer, editor, and horror programmer based in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Film Comment, and Rolling Stone.

Lisa B. Thompson is the Patton Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, Single Black Female,...

Racquel Gates is an associate professor of film at Columbia University. She is the author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2018) and is currently writing her second book, Blackness and the Invention of...

Sean Gilman is a film critic based in Tacoma, Washington. He has written extensively on East Asian film for MUBI’s Notebook, In Review Online, and his own site, the Chinese Cinema.

Ryan Gilbey has written for the Guardian since 2002. His book on queer cinema, It Used to Be Witches, will be published in 2025.

Robert Daniels is associate editor at RogerEbert.com and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Reverse Shot, and Screen Daily. He lives in Chicago.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times best-selling author of the critically acclaimed speculative novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things, and The Beautiful Ones; the crime novel Untamed Shore, and the noir...

Michael B. Gillespie is author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film and coeditor of Black One Shot, an art criticism series on ASAP/J. He is an associate professor of film at the City College of...

Jeb Brody joined Amblin Partners in 2017 and is currently president of production. He and Holly Bario oversee films produced under the company’s Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, where he recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated 1917 and the...

Cassie da Costa is an editor and writer. You can find her work in Vanity Fair, Artforum, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.