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For the 18th consecutive year, Filmmaker Magazine has announced its 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Perhaps the indie-film stalwart’s signature feature, 25 New Faces has included the likes of Hilary Swank (1999), Ryan Gosling (2001), Andrew Bujalski (2003), So Yong Kim (2006), Benh Zeitlin (2008) and Ana Lily Amirpour (2014) in the past, among many others. Leading the class of 2016 are Sasha Lane of “American Honey” and Macon Blair of “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room,” who’s currently at work on his untitled directorial debut. Find the full list below.

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Sasha Lane

Tom Rosenberg

Ricardo Gaona

Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan

Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang

Amman Abbasi

T.W. Pittman and Kelly Daniela Norris

Jess dela Merced

Jerónimo Rodríguez

Graham Swon

Katy Grannan

Sonia Kennebeck

Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan

Memory

Connor Jessup

Shawn Peters

Nadia P. Manzoor and Radhika Vaz

Shawn Snyder

John Wilson...

Indiewire's Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention. "Shugs and Fats" won the Short Form Breakthrough Series at this year's Gotham Independent Film Awards, but its creators don't remember much about the actual moment. "It was like being blackout drunk," Radhika Vaz said. "Completely. Like from the moment they called out our names, completely, completely, I don't recall anything." In fact, they hadn't even submitted themselves for consideration, which made winning the award all the more surprising. "It gives us a boost in confidence and, in terms of the validation, because we haven't had this level of validation from the show," Nadia Manzoor said. Read More: The Best Things Winners Helen Mirren, Todd Haynes, Paul Dano and More Said at the 2015 Gotham Awards But winning the award was a huge moment for both the web series and Vaz and Manzoor, who created the show together after.