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NYWIFT Masterclass: Final Draft 13 Basics
26 Feb 2026 @ 06:30pm
Join NYWIFT for a virtual masterclass to learn tips and tricks on how to get the most out of Final Draft 13.
Get to learn Final Draft 13 powerful new tools including Navigator 2.0, Typewriter, Emoji, Midnight Mode, Structure Lines, Custom Color PDFs and more.
This virtual class includes demonstrating Final Draft 13 and its features, with opportunity for participation from the audience via chat. Also includes audience Q&A time with the instructor on their career in writing and at Final Draft.
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Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Jackie Yunchang Zhang
Welcome to NYWIFT, Jackie Yunchang Zhang! Jackie Yunchang Zhang is a non-fiction filmmaker and video artist from Hangzhou, China, now based in New York. Working across lens-based media and animation, she uses a hybrid non-fiction approach to explore identity, resilience, and cultural displacement. With a strong sensitivity to emotion, memory, and interpersonal dynamics, her work examines how people navigate relationships, belonging, and the quiet negotiations of everyday life. Through an observational yet personal style, she creates films that reveal the subtle ways we understand ourselves and the world around us.
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Nira Burstein
Welcome to NYWIFT, Nira Burstein! Nira Burstein is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. She is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film and DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40. Her documentary debut Charm Circle won the Audience Award at Sheffield DocFest, is a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel. Nira is a Gotham Fellow, and her work has been supported by the Jerome Foundation and Jewish Story Partners. She has made several narrative short films, including Gangrenous (Nantucket Film Festival) and Off & Away (Brooklyn Film Festival). Her latest short film, Dear Shop Girl, premiered at Woodstock Film Festival. She is currently in post on the documentary short Handymen.
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Ashley Bacon
Welcome to NYWIFT, Ashley Bacon! Ashley is an actor and producer in New York. She leads the 80s thriller Something of a Monster which was released in December on AppleTV, and her claim to fame is a recurring arc on Orange is the New Black. She was nominated for Best Actor at Cindependent for her work in The Flip Side (2023). Upcoming projects include leading the film A Matchmaker’s Christmas, a star-studded community fundraiser of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and raising her small child. She lives in Brooklyn with - in her words - "two cats, one daughter, and one husband." We welcome actor and producer Ashley Bacon to NYWIFT! In her New Member Spotlight, we discussed the famous RDJ scene that inspired Ashley to become an actor, the community garden motivating her next project, and her favorite film she’s worked on so far.
NYWIFT Interview: A Conversation with Jessica Chastain on Her New Film “Dreams”
Academy Award–winning actress and producer Jessica Chastain has never shied away from stories that sit in discomfort. In Dreams, opening in theaters February 27, she leans directly into it. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michel Franco, the film pairs Chastain with celebrated ballet dancer Isaac Hernández in a tense, intimate drama that interrogates love, power, and the invisible lines that shape our lives. Tammy Reese brings us an exclusive interview with Chastain about her exciting new project.
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