Magic Hour - Director / co-writer / co-lead actor Kate Aselton

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Charlie and Erin escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. Magic Hour is a story of love, perception, regret and acceptance. Director, writer, co-lead actor Kate Aselton joins us for a conversation on the making of Magic Hour, the early days of indie filmmaking, working with her husband / collaborator Mark Duplass and the brilliant co-lead, Daveed Diggs. About the filmmaker - Katie Aselton is an acclaimed actor and filmmaker working across television and film. Her breakout acting role was in the indie hit THE PUFFY CHAIR, directed by Mark and Jay Duplass, and she is known for her starring role as ‘Jenny’ in the FX comedy series, THE LEAGUE.MAGIC HOUR is Aselton’s fourth feature as a director. She made her directorial debut with THE FREEBIE, in which she also stars alongside Dax Shepard; the film premiered to critical acclaim at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Katie also directed and starred in the survivor thriller BLACK ROCK opposite Kate Bosworth and Lake Bell, which also premiered at Sundance in 2012. She directed the iconic Diane Keaton in MACK & RITA in 2022. Her short film OH, CHRISTMAS TREE, starring Mark Duplass and her daughter Ora Duplass, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2024. She recently wrapped her fifth feature, THEIR TOWN starring Ora Duplass and Chosen Jacobs. As an actor, Aselton has appeared in numerous roles on the big and small screen. Her TV credits include: the FX series LEGION, created by Noah Hawley; HBO’s indie hits ANIMALS and TOGETHERNESS; long-running favorites like CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, VEEP, and THE OFFICE; Netflix's acclaimed anthology series ROOM 104, and Hulu’s CASUAL. She can next be seen in Apple TV’s upcoming GOVERNMENT CHEESE. In the feature space, Aselton’s acting credits include Netflix’s OLD DADS, the Paramount favorite BOOK CLUB, Lionsgate’s BOMBSHELL, Warner Brother’s FATHER FIGURES, and the acclaimed horror/sci-fi films SHE DIES TOMORROW and SYNCHRONIC.

This Ordinary Thing - Director Nick Davis

Haunting and unforgettable, THIS ORDINARY THING tells the story of non-Jews who helped save Jewish people across Europe during The Holocaust. The film combines never-before-seen archival footage with the testimonies of over forty different people who, operating independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved thousands of Jewish strangers from almost certain death. THIS ORDINARY THING is a timely reminder of the pockets of goodness that can rise in a sea of evil: everyday people helping others who were "different" from them. Notably, none of the people featured in the film thought of themselves as heroes. And yet the film, with immense contemporary resonance, causes each of us to ask ourselves “What would I have done?” The film employs some of the world’s greatest actors, performing excerpts translated from the original transcripts. The cast, including Helen Mirren, F. Murray Abraham, Carrie Coon, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, Stephen Fry, Bill Camp, Harry Hadden-Paton, Marcia Gay Harden, Bill Irwin, Kasia Kółeczek, Anna Krippa, Natasha Landow, Camillo Lareczyk, Donal Logue, Martha Plimpton, Rufus Sewell, Hope Davis and Lily Tomlin. About the filmmaker - An accomplished writer, director, and producer, Nick Davis got his start in film and television by interning on Ken Burns’ Baseball. His first task was to build a desk. In addition to his work with Burns, which included jobs on Cornerstone and The West, Davis worked for filmmaker David Grubin—co-producing The Language of Life with Bill Moyers for PBS and producing Money and Power: The History of Business for CNBC. In 1993, he directed the Emmy Award–winning Jack: The Last Kennedy Film, produced with his father, Peter Davis. In 1998, Nick wrote and directed 1999, a black-comedy feature starring Jennifer Garner, Dan Futterman, and Amanda Peet. The film aired on the Sundance Channel and screened at more than 20 festivals worldwide. In 2001, he founded Nick Davis Productions. Having seen Young Frankenstein ten times as a child, Nick was thrilled that the company’s first job was producing a Bravo Profile of Gene Wilder. Since then, NDP has produced more than 80 hours of television—and, over the past two decades, more than 300 commissioned films for organizations, institutions, and private clients. Meanwhile, Nick’s public-facing documentary work has continued to grow. In 2018, he produced and directed the PBS American Masters film Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived,” narrated by Emmy- and Golden Globe–winner Jon Hamm. In 2021, he directed the acclaimed Once Upon a Time in Queens, a multi-part 30 for 30 documentary on the 1986 Mets, in partnership with ESPN Films, Kimmelot, ITV America, and Major League Baseball. In 2024, he won an Emmy Award for executive producing Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox for Netflix. In 2025, Nick organized his work into two distinct entities: Series of Dreams [https://www.series-of-dreams.com/], a boutique production company for films made for wide audiences, founded with his wife, novelist Jane Mendelsohn — and NICK DAVIS PRODUCTIONS, his commissioned-film studio. A filmmaker whose work is known for its humanity, humor, and emotional depth, Nick has a particular love for the private films, where the stakes are personal and the storytelling can be intimate, funny, and deeply meaningful. Prior to his work in film and television, Nick performed improv comedy in New York City nightclubs and co-wrote the novel Boone (with Brooks Hansen), published in 1990 and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book Competing With Idiots [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/37845/competing-with-idiots-by-nick-davis/]—a dual portrait of his grandfather Herman Mankiewicz and great-uncle Joseph Mankiewicz—was published by Knopf in 2021 and shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize (Biography).

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