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English: Native New Yorker Peter Vack is an emerging indie darling, Renaissance man and burgeoning auteur, with an increasingly compelling voice in the art world buoyed by a growing resume of acting, writing, and directing credits that are a testament to his discerning taste and wide-ranging influences. Not yet thirty, (Vack was born in the West Village in 1986), the handsome artist is often mentioned with other New York-based creatives of around the same age: Jemima Kirke, Greta Gerwig, and Lena Dunham, whose Girls entered the zeitgeist only in 2012, dragging all of its highly educated millennial angst with it. He doesn’t yet have the name recognition of Dunham, and unlike her, Vack is so far reticent on the social issues that peak through some of his work. (He plays a small role in the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Fort Tilden, which despite efforts to make fun of privileged hipsterism and the uncomfortable dissonance of gentrification, seems to indulge in it without real engagement or critical examination.)