Jake Perlin edited Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval, a collection for Wes Anderson’s film Asteroid City. He currently programs films at L’Alliance New York, was the Founding Artistic Director of Metrograph Cinema. His film distribution and publishing companies are The Film Desk and Film Desk Books.
Durga Chew-Bose is a writer and filmmaker living in Montreal. She is the author of Too Much and Not the Mood, a collection of essays published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar. She’s written catalogue essays on a variety of artists including Agnes Martin and Wolfgang Tillmans. Her directorial debut, an adaptation of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse was released this year.
Rebecca Cleman is the Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Her writing on video art and cinema has appeared in INCITE journal, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, the Moving Image Source, and Film Comment, among others. With Rachel Churner and Tyler Maxin, she co-edited the publication The New Television: Video After Television, released by no place press in Fall 2024.
K. Austin Collins is a film critic and programmer. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Atlantic Monthly, and The New Republic. He is also a prolific crossword constructor whose work appears in the New Yorker and The New York Times.
Kent Jones is a filmmaker and writer. His films include Hitchcock/Truffaut, Diane and Late Fame, with Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan. He is the author of several books of criticism.
Alex Pasternack is a writer, editor and producer based in New York City. But someday, he hopes, a shack in Portugal, or a hut on the Black Sea.
Born in Paris in 1965, Nicolas Saada began his career at Cahiers du Cinéma, Radio Nova, and Arte before moving into directing. His films include Espion(s) (2009) and Taj Mahal (2015), as well as the mini-series Thanksgiving (2018). He has just completed a new feature and is developing another.
Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
Jasper Sharp is a British curator and art historian. He began his career at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, before joining the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna as the first curator of modern and contemporary art in the museum’s history. For The Phoenician Scheme, Sharp secured the loan of original artworks for inclusion in the film, including masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and René Magritte from private collections, and a group of Old Master paintings from the collection of Hamburger Kunsthalle.
