Film

Penny Lane is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose features include Listening to Kenny G, Hail Satan?, Our Nixon, and Nuts! She is a Guggenheim Fellow and Sundance award winner.

Daniel Kremer has provided commentary tracks and video essays for physical-media releases from over a dozen labels, including Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Milestone, and Severin. His book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films (2015) was the first to cover its...

Born in 1981, Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published four books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and a short story collection, Variations (2021). Her fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications,...

Barry Michael Cooper is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He wrote the films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper also worked as a writer and supervising producer on Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It....

Shai Heredia is a filmmaker, a curator, and the founder of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. Her programs and award-winning films have been exhibited worldwide, and she is on the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum...

Ehsan Khoshbakht is the codirector of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy. An architect by training, he curates films around the world and is also a filmmaker (Celluloid Underground, Filmfarsi). His most recent book as writer and editor is The...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an Oscar-winning director and writer. His films include Amores perros (2000), Babel (2006), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022).

Hamid Naficy is a professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, as well as a faculty member in Northwestern’s Middle East and North African Studies Program and Department...