PANELISTS:

Asghar Farhadi

Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"One of the main ideas that came to me was this idea of the character going up and then fall[ing] down like a freefall.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Clio Barnard

Writer/Director

Claire Rushbrook

Actor

Adeel Akhtar

Actor

MODERATOR: Anna Smith

"When we were on set, and I was actually being Ali, I think it was the most free I’ve ever felt.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kenneth Branagh

Writer/Director/Producer

Caitríona Balfe

Actor

Jamie Dornan

Actor

Jude Hill

Actor

Ciarán Hinds

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

“I suppose I wanted to get back in touch with my 9-year-old self and to try and understand what that family was going through...”Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Sian Heder

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I also wanted someone who could gut a cod.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Haley Bennett

Actor

Sarah Greenwood

Production Designer

Katie Spencer

Set Decorator

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"It was very challenging because it was Covid, but equally I think the active volcano took the gambit.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Rebecca Ferguson

Actor

Denis Villeneuve

Co-Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"It put a lot of pressure on my shoulders, to bring to life one of my oldest dreams. Trying to please that teenager was not an easy task." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Riz Ahmed

Actor

Michael Pearce

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"When Riz got hold of the script and pitched for it, it was a lightbulb moment — I just thought, ‘I could buy him as a Marine.'”Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Edgar Wright

Co-Writer/Director/Producer

Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Writer

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

“I think when you’re writing a horror film or a thriller, it’s really important that the horrifying and thrilling thing about it is true." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Cary Fukunaga

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Anna Smith

"Endings are harder than beginnings. Hopefully we did something special here."Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

André Holland

Actor

Ruth Negga

Actor

Rebecca Hall

Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

"Clare piqued my curiosity because I was half in love with her and half appalled by her."Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Garth Jennings

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Diana Lodderhose

“Suddenly you’ve got Matthew McConaughey recording from a cupboard; he has some seriously nice shirts.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Steven Knight

Executive Producer/Writer

Pablo Larraín

Director/Producer

Jacqueline Durran

Costume Designer

MODERATOR: Peter White

“The cleanest way to get into a person is to put them in a pressure cooker… we’ve all been with family we don’t want to be with at Christmas.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Teresa Saponangelo

Actor

Luisa Ranieri

Actor

Filippo Scotti

Actor

Paolo Sorrentino

Writer/Director/Producer

Daria D'Antonio

Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"I thought it was a good idea to share my pain with a potential audience and see if that pain was only about me or also about other people.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeymes Samuel

Co-Writer/Director/Producer

Jonathan Majors

Actor

MODERATOR: Tom Grater

"It wasn’t necessarily that I wanted to put my own stamp on the Western genre, I just wanted to broaden the storytelling landscape of it.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Dakota Johnson

Actor

Jessie Buckley

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"Often as a female actor you are trying to be ‘something’, something enticing, attractive or sexy or whatever – it can be boring." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

George Clooney

Director/Producer

Grant Heslov

Producer

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

“This was exactly the right time for Ben and he was the first person we thought of [for the film].” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Julia Ducournau

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Damon Wise

"I wanted people to accept their transformation fully, to look beyond gender in the same way I was trying to do in the film.” Read Story Here