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Director, Writer, and Producer Rebecca Miller is an Emmy nominee and past winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Gotham Prize, and Independent Spirit Award. She has written and directed six feature films: ANGELA (1995), winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award; PERSONAL VELOCITY (2002), starring Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick, and Fairuza Balk, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award, as well as the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award; THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (2005), starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle; THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009), starring Robin Wright; MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015), starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore; ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (2017), an Emmy-nominated HBO documentary (Outstanding Documentary: Arts & Culture); and SHE CAME TO ME (2023), starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, and Anne Hathaway. Miller wrote the screenplay for the feature film PROOF (2005), adapted from the acclaimed stage play. She is the author of two short story collections, Personal Velocity (2001) and Total (2022), and the novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) and Jacob’s Folly (2013). She adapted both Personal Velocity and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee for the screen. Her films are in the collections of MoMA and the Yale Film Archive. Miller’s next project is a five-part docuseries, Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV+), a portrait of Martin Scorsese, set for release in Fall 2025.

Darius Marder is an Oscar®, DGA, and WGA nominated writer and director who made his narrative feature film directorial debut with the critically acclaimed and award-winning SOUND OF METAL featuring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and a breakout performance by Paul Raci. The film received six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and won for Best Sound and Best Editing. Co-written with his brother Abraham Marder, the film was shot in 2018 after nearly ten years of work to get it made and tells the story of an iterant punk-metal drummer who begins to unravel when he suddenly loses his hearing and identity. SOUND OF METAL was named one of the top ten films of the year by the American Film Institute and Marder has been nominated for a Directors Guild Award for his work on the film. Marder’s first feature film LOOT, was awarded the Best Documentary prize at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival; was nominated for five Cinema Eye Awards; and earned him a Spirit Award nomination for the “Truer than Fiction” prize in 2009. Marder then co-wrote the narrative feature THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES in 2012 with Derek Cianfrance and Ben Coccio. The original screenplay won them the Penn Literary award in 2014.

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