PANELISTS:

Alex Convery

Writer

William Goldenberg

Editor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“If you can get the audience to care about the character, they’re going to forget that they know the ending.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Cord Jefferson

Writer/Director/Producer

Laura Karpman

Composer

Hilda Rasula

Editor

Cristina Dunlap

Cinematographer

Jeffrey Wright

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

"On the surface this movie is a satire, but underneath it there is this major family drama. It’s also a romance, it’s also an artist journey, a writer finding himself and his voice… it’s many movies in one." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kelly Fremon Craig

Writer/Director

James L. Brooks

Producer

Julie Ansell

Producer

Abby Ryder Fortson

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"It started to shift for me ... if I can just deliver the spirit of the book, even as I’m making changes, then that will all have served her work." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Greta Gerwig

Co-Writer/Director

Margot Robbie

Actor/Producer

America Ferrera

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"I'll just jump in and say what Greta is too humble to say. She has literally changed the game. From now on, it's different because of what she's done." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alison Small

Producer

Emma Seligman

Writer/Director

Rachel Sennott

Actor

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

"I think they’re, like, as gay as possible, that’s their identity. You get that out of the way, and then you can just have a regular movie." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Roger Ross Williams

Director/Writer

María Estela Fernández

Costume Designer

Marcelo Zarvos

Composer

MODERATOR: Destiny Jackson

“He owned it. He owned the spandex.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Irwin Winkler

Producer

Elizabeth Raposo

Producer

Keenan Coogler

Writer

Zach Baylin

Writer

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

"We are planning to do Creed IV right now. We have a really good story [and] a really good plot." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lauren Schuker Blum

Writer/EP

Rebecca Angelo

Writer/EP

Aaron Ryder

Producer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“Our characters aren’t in the same room, they never meet. We had to dig into telling this story about this ensemble in a really fresh way.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Chloe Domont

Writer/Director

Alden Ehrenreich

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

“There’s nothing more rewarding than having someone come up to you at the end of your film and saying, ‘I feel seen.’” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Michael Mann

Director/Producer

Adam Driver

Actor/EP

Penélope Cruz

Actor

Shailene Woodley

Actor

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

"If I ask myself what I am trying to impact to the audience, it was not to observe pretty cars through long lenses. It was to take you, the audience, and immerse you into this experience." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor

Eve Hewson

Actor

Gary Clark

Songwriter/Composer

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

"[On] almost sort of a psychological-emotional level for me, it’s like I faced my fear and I've moved past it and I feel pretty good about it.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Matthew Brown

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"It’s a balance of the psychology of these two men and this thing that I think is within all of us: We’re all struggling with this human experience.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Chad Stahelski

Director

Erica Lee

Producer

Mark Stoeckinger

Supervising Sound Editor

MODERATOR: Justin Kroll

“If you watch a John Wick, we don’t look at it like a movie. It’s a love letter." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jacqueline West

Costume Designer

Julie O’Keefe

Osage Clothing Consultant

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

“The day of using Gunsmoke and Bonanza portraying us is over. We have a voice, and we use it." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Bradley Cooper

Writer/Director/
Producer/Actor

Carey Mulligan

Actor

Matt Bomer

Actor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

“He died in 1990 and I swear I knew him. This movie has messed time up for me. It’s bent time, it really has.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Todd Haynes

Director

Julianne Moore

Actor

Natalie Portman

Actor

Charles Melton

Actor

Samy Burch

Writer

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

“Sometimes you play people who commit crimes. That doesn’t mean that you believe that those crimes should be committed. [It’s] just, we as artists are curious about the internal workings of the human heart.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Benjamin Renner

Writer/Director

John Powell

Composer

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

“I start to draw lines. I stop as soon as what I want to express is there on paper. If I want to draw a duck, I draw three lines. Some call it minimalistic. I call it lazy.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Chai Vasarhelyi

Writer/Director

Annette Bening

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

“I started to really think about swimming and I thought, I’m pretty athletic and I’m in pretty good shape and used to scuba dive a lot, but I’ve never been a distance swimmer. My nature is to jump first then figure it out.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Cillian Murphy

Actor

Emma Thomas

Producer

Ellen Mirojnick

Costume Designer

Jaime Leigh McIntosh

Hair Department

Andrew Jackson

Visual Effects Supervisor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I think that oftentimes when I read the scripts that Chris writes I’m sort of super nervous because I’m thinking about what on Earth this is going to be for the next couple of years, but also how on Earth are we going to do these things?" Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Branford Marsalis

Composer

Colman Domingo

Actor

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"People who organized the March on Washington were 19 years old. They were not old stodgy men. That’s what Rustin did. That’s the spirit in which I led this film.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Phil Lord

Writer/Producer

Christopher Miller

Writer/Producer

Kemp Powers

Director

Amy Pascal

Producer

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

"When your brand is surprise and innovation, it means you have to start over because you can’t run it back. We all got together and said, ‘What’s something even more ambitious?'" Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Evan Goldberg

Writer/Producer

Seth Rogen

Writer/Producer/
Actor

Jeff Rowe

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

“We’re trying to make these ninja turtles sound like you and talk like you and reference the same TikTok videos that you watch that I’ve never seen that I don’t understand at all.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Grant Heslov

Producer

Tanya Swerling

Editor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“I have a very good friend who rowed in college and he’s like, ‘I can’t wait to see this movie. I’ve been waiting for years!' So I wanted to make sure we were representing that properly.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Maggie Betts

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

“He doesn’t like to rehearse. I think he only drops in five minutes before. That’s Jamie’s process. The results are extraordinary." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Taraji P. Henson

Actor

Blitz Bazawule

Director

Fantasia Barrino

Actor

Danielle Brooks

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

"The Color Purple is a critical and important text for so many people who are healing, so if you have nothing to say, you better shut up.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alexander Payne

Director

David Hemingson

Writer/Producer

Kevin Tent

Editor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"I do wish we had a larger percentage of theatrical real estate dedicated to more human films.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Hugh Welchman

Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

“Our painters would work for an hour and a half and then sit their reading by candlelight for the next five hours waiting for the electricity to come back on." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Walt Dohrn

Director

Gina Shay

Producer

Anna Kendrick

Voice Actor

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

“I have other friends who have done other animated films, and they’re like, ‘Yeah it’s cool — you get to show up in your pajamas.’" Read Story Here