PANELISTS:

Mads Mikkelsen

Actor

Tobias Lindholm

Co-Writer

Thomas Vinterberg

Director/Co-Writer

MODERATOR: Nancy Tartaglione

“This movie kind of admits it’s hard to live a life and once in a while, you need help to defrost, to reinvent yourself, to turn back to life.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Derek Tsang

Director

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

“It’s heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Maria Bakalova

Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen

Writer/Producer/Actor

Anthony Hines

Producer/Writer

Erica Rivinoja

Writer

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"We feel comedy is an overlooked genre. It takes much more skill than I think people think it actually does.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alexander Nanau

Director/Producer/Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Amanda N'Duka

"What I learned is how corruption leads to incompetence and that, finally...leads really to the destruction of human empathy.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alexandra Byrne

Costume Designer

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"We’re not here to be museum archivists, we’re here to tell a story, but I think you can only do that truthfully if you know what you’re working with.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Beau Borders

Re-recording Mixer

David Wyman

Sound Mixer

MODERATOR: Justin Kroll

"For [Tom Hanks] to highlight our craft as part of the reason to go see this movie was fantastic.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Skye Fitzgerald

Director

MODERATOR: Dade Hayes

"There was only ever going to be one way we were going to be able to shoot this film, and that was by being really, really small.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ren Klyce

Sound Designer

Donald Graham Burt

Production Designer

Erik Messerschmidt

Cinematographer

Amanda Seyfried

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"We looked at a lot of movie stills, we looked at a lot of films of the period, and we tried to cherry-pick the things that we liked and that inspired us.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Leslie Odom Jr.

Actor/Songwriter

Kemp Powers

Writer/EP

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"What, if any, social responsibility do you have if you’re a Black person in the public eye?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Emerald Fennell

Writer/Director/

Ben Browning

Producer

Frédéric Thoraval

Editor

Carey Mulligan

EP/Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"I think what was important was feeling [that Carrie’s pain] is not fresh—this is something that she’s been carrying for a decade, y’know?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jasmila Žbanić

Writer/Director/Producer

Frédéric Thoraval

Editor

Carey Mulligan

EP/Actor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"It tells not only what is going on in Bosnia in 1995, but what is going on in the world today if we are not careful enough to keep our democratic institutions....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Riz Ahmed

EP/Actor

Darius Marder

Writer/Director

Paul Raci

Actor

MODERATOR: Todd McCarthy

"I sometimes think when you are out of control and have to submit to the process, that is when something interesting happens.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Monica Bellucci

Actor

Kaouther Ben Hania

Writer/Director

Dea Liane

Actor

Yahya Mahayni

Actor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I never had skin as clean and pores as beautiful after doing this every day.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Maite Alberdi

Director

Marcela Santibañez

Producer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"There wasn’t any B plan.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Sacha Baron Cohen

Actor

Alan Baumgarten

Editor

Aaron Sorkin

Writer/Director

Phedon Papamichael

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"There are a lot of reasons it took so long, and now I am glad it did. The film has been on a 14-year collision course with events.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Andra Day

Actor

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"It just reminds me that we have to speak truth – and not just Billie Holiday’s truth.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Garrett Bradley

Director/Producer

Lauren Domino

Producer

Kellen Quinn

Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

"As a filmmaker it was really important ... to think about how every frame in the film was going to speak to the very intimate relationship between...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ross Stewart

Director

Tomm Moore

Director/Producer

Nora Twomey

Producer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"It’s important to reinterpret these stories and reimagine them for a modern generation.” Read Story Here