Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, 
and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. Miranda July’s most recent film is The Future (2011), which she wrote, directed and stars in. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker and her novel The First Bad Man (2015) became an immediate New York Times bestseller. Her artwork is in the collection of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and was presented in the 2009 Venice Biennale, in Union Square in New York, and at MOCA in Los Angeles. David Byrne says, “Miranda July’s is a beautiful, odd, original voice—seductive, 
sometimes erotic, and a little creepy, too.”

Marcia Franklin is the host and producer of Dialogue, a discussion program on Idaho Public Television. Franklin’s programs have won numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, an ABA Silver Gavel Award and several regional Emmy awards.