FILMMAKER Magazine is doing a sort of “where are they now?” with past with former honorees of their “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list (see this year’s installment here). This catch-up with Ronald Bronstein has some interesting bits of news about how the Frownland director/Butterknife star has been spending his time.

First, though Frownland is still without U.S. distribution, it has been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. “I took this as a good indicator that it was time to stop pushing the forlorned thing, assume it’ll have some kind of life ahead of it, and move onto my next project with more active fervor,” Bronstein says. That project is currently in rehearsals, with plans to shoot this winter.

Meanwhile, Bronstein says he plans to continue his “semi-reluctant plunge into acting” with a lead role in the next feature by Josh and Bennie Safdie. To celebrate that bit of good news, I’ve embedded the Jerry Lewis-inspired Safdie short Jerry Ruis, Shall We Do This? above, which we gave an award to when I was on the short film jury at CineVegas last month.