Ayelet Zurer
Ayelet Zurer first caught our eye in a pregnancy sex scene with on-screen husband Eric Bana in 2005’s Munich. The acclaimed Tel Aviv-born thesp—she starred in BeTipul (the original In Treatment)— has since completed several films, among them
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David Alan Basche
From Shakespearean acting to a role in FOX’s ill-fated remake of Mr. Ed, David Alan Basche will try anything once. Not only has he appeared on screens and stages of every ilk, but he’s worked with some of the biggest names in the biz, like Julia Roberts in
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Ronnie Bronstein
Continuously unpredictable, insightful and strange, Ronnie Bronstein’s highly experimental directorial debut, Frownland, provides a reminder that conventional Hollywood youth dramas just don’t get it—not like this, anyway. Bronstein follows the solemn
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Andy Cohen
As the World Wide Web engulfs more and more of the world wide world, Andy Cohen, senior VP of production and programming at Bravo TV, stands at the ready. Cohen—who is behind such smash hit shows as Top Chef and Project Runway—also authors “Andy’s
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Jordan Galland
Twenty-seven-year-old New York-based screenwriter, filmmaker and composer/musician Jordan Galland is as prodigious as he is youthful. It was 2007’s Rosencrantz and Gildenstein are Undead, a cross between a cheeky vampire flick and a surreal romantic comedy,
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Cynthia Lester
Brooklyn resident Cynthia Lester works at a crisis center, but her first film deals with her own family woes. In My Mother’s Garden, Lester tells the story of her mother, Eugenia, the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. Eugenia suffers from hoarding disorder,
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Mason Novick
After spending his days reading “terrible” comedy scripts, producer Mason Novick was thrilled to discover the reliably funny blog of Diablo Cody. Novick called Cody and convinced her to try her hand at screenwriting. The result was Juno. Now with an Oscar
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Oren Peli
When Israeli émigré Oren Peli went to the Slamdance Film Festival with his modest indie shocker, Paranormal Activity, in January, he was just a humble game designer. But that was before this surprisingly potent horror movie, which takes the form of a
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Michelle Trachtenberg
Though her career began when the actress was barely four feet tall, there’s nothing G-rated about Michelle Trachtenberg’s resumé. Starting out as Nona on Nickelodeon’s cult existentialist parody, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Trachtenberg has sought
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Anton Yelchin
The son of famous Russian figure skaters, Anton Yelchin moved to America at the tender age of six months. Once he began walking, the roles started coming his way. He broke into Hollywood starring opposite Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis. From there he went
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