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Andrew Sa is a singer-songwriter from California, now also based in Chicago. His debut American Rough is out now on Bloodshot Records.

Andrew Sa

Max Subar is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter and a member of the band Case Oats. His latest record, Anything Could Be, is out now on Merge.

Max Subar

Music

Max Subar and Andrew Sa Believe in the Good in the World

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Dos Santos is a Chicago-based alt-Latinx band known for their powerful live performance and their progressive compositional layering of various Latin/American musics.
The core band consists of drummer Daniel Villarreal, percussionist Peter “Maestro” Vale, bassist Jaime Garza, guitarist Nathan Karagianis, and multi-instrumentalist/singer/lyricist Alex Chavez. 
Their latest record, Es Amor, is out now.
(Photo Credit: Trey Legit)

Dos Santos

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Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

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Johanna Samuels is a singer-songwriter based in LA. Her latest record, Excelsior!, is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.

Johanna Samuels

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Mal Not Bad is the solo project of LA-based musician Mal Hauser. Their record Sophomore will be out September 9, 2026.

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Nina Winder-Lind is a Brighton-based Swedish songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist. Best known as a member of the electrifying ‘Hagstone rock’ four-piece The New Eves, Winder-Lind’s solo work channels the same raw intensity and liberatory spirit while revealing a more intimate, deeply personal side to her songwriting. Her latest record, Wild Love, is out now on Transgressive.

Nina Winder-Lind

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James Ashcroft is the director of the new dark thriller <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81278442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Whisper Man</a>, starring Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, Robert DeNiro and Michael Keaton, which is now on Netflix. His previous films include the psychological horror The Rule of Jenny Pen, starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow, and Coming Home in the Dark, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, Victoria University and has studied with New York’s prestigious theatre company The Wooster Group. He served as development producer on the New Zealand Film Commission-funded feature This Town, which was released in 2020. From 2007 to 2013m he was the CEO/Artistic Director of multi-award winning Māori Theatre Company Taki Rua Productions. His short films and web series works have screened at multiple festivals. (Photo by Stan Alley.)

James Ashcroft (Ngati Kahu/Nga Puhi)

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Ember Knight is an LA-based musician and comedian. They&#8217;re the creator of the webseries The Ember Knight Show, and a series of shorts for Adult Swim called Ember&#8217;s Etiquette. Their latest record, Water Can Fly, is out now.

Ember Knight

Ember Knight and Tristan Wheeler Talk About Being Evil

Sophia Silver is an actor and writer. Her directorial debut, Over/Under, a heartfelt coming-of-age drama executive produced by Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth, Hal &amp; Harper), is now available digitally in the U,K, Ireland, the U.S. and Canada. Over/Under is the first film under her production company, Synchronicities, which she founded in 2021.

Sophia Silver

Life Won’t Look Anything Like You Thought It Would

Phyllis Toben Bancroft is a writer, director and producer whose films explore women, identity, memory, longing and transformation. Her work includes SPENT, which won a $100,000 award from Johnson &amp; Johnson and aired on BET; Burned; and the award-winning …with salt, which screened at more than 30 film festivals internationally. Her latest release, Echoes: Four Stories of Becoming, now available on Amazon Prime Video, brings together four of her films. An alumna of the AFI Conservatory, Bancroft is currently developing her feature film Hide and Seek. (Photo by Amina Touray.)

Phyllis Toben Bancroft

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Song of Rimbaud

Warped depravity in pop bubblegum packaging, Emma Higgins is a writer and director interested in telling stories she hasn’t seen before through a genre lens. Emma’s debut feature as writer-director, <a href="https://fela.tv/work/special-projects/sweetness-first-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweetness</a>, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to rave reviews and is out now in theaters. A coming-of-age story for the digital age exploring the line between innocent fandom and twisted obsession, it stars Kate Hallett and Herman Tømmeraas. A self-taught filmmaker, Emma established herself directing commercials and music videos, helming Jessie Reyez&#8217;s music video “No One’s in the Room,” which earned the esteemed Video of the Year win at the 2021 Juno Awards. Emma currently lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys living amongst the coyotes and nurturing the filmmaking community.

Emma Higgins

Sinking into Sweet Uncertainty – Otherwise Known as Making a Movie

Writer-director Carmen Emmi’s award-winning debut feature,<a href="https://www.magpictures.com/plainclothes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Plainclothes</a>, starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and Amy Forsyth, premiered at Sundance in 2025, was released theatrically by Magnolia and is out now on digital. Set in 1997, the film follows a promising undercover officer assigned to entrap gay men, who defies professional orders when he falls in love with one of his targets. Emmi is a filmmaker with deep roots in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up in a family of farmers. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Carmen began his career as an independent Director of Photography, contributing to a range of projects, including short films, commercials, and feature-length productions. (Photo by Lindsy Avritch.)

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