PANELISTS:

Hao Wu

Director

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"“[The movie] speaks to the reality of how people during times of catastrophe or deep, profound crisis, can rise up to the occasion.”” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Safyah Usmani

Director

MODERATOR: Dino-Ray Ramos

"As long as the honor killings are continuing in the world I feel like we need to continue to make this noise and keep talking about it over and over and ....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Liz Garbus

Director/Producer

Lisa Cortés

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"The whole point of this film was that the election in 2018…has been hundreds of years in the making.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Bonni Cohen

Co-Director

Jon Shenk

Co-Director

MODERATOR: Amanda N'Duka

"When they were presented with this challenge of how to overcome a system that really abused many of them along the way, they had to step up in a ....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

R.J. Cutler

Director

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"These tapes…had that immediacy, they had that rawness, and they had…the voice of so many people who are no longer with us....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Amanda McBaine

Director/Producer

Jesse Moss

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"You see him try to reach across the divide at Boys State It’s the divide of our country now and that’s what makes…the story of our movie so resonant now.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Judy Heumann

Subject/Disability Activist

Jim LeBrecht

Co-Director

Nicole Newnham

Co-Director

MODERATOR: Matthew Carey

"We were asking serious questions—what were we going to do with our lives? The American Dream was not something that seemed we were going ....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kirsten Johnson

Director

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"The premise of the movie is that we were going to kill my father over and over again with the help of stunt people until he really died for real.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Victor Kossakovsky

Director

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

"I said, no—no voice-over, no music…just watch and try to see how animals are, not how we think about them, how they are.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Nathan Grossman

Director/Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"She perceived that the portrayal showed her as…this three-dimensional being, from being very used to seeing herself so compressed into kind of this activist ... Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Rick Rowley

Director

Mohamed Soltan

Subject, Freedom Initiative Founder

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr

"The potential for [Jamal] to unite the Arab diaspora ... around the cause of freedom I think posed the biggest threat to Gulf monarchies and ....” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Errol Morris

Director

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr

"The whole movie, the whole enterprise, My Psychedelic Love Story, is about her quest to figure out who, in fact, she is...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Gianfranco Rosi

Director

MODERATOR: Matthew Carey

"I did months, months, months of research without the camera. And this for me was very important, to have myself completely free and not having this ...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Kirby Dick

Co-Director/Writer/Producer

Drew Dixon

Subject

Amy Ziering

Co-Director/Writer/Producer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"I have a responsibility to set an example and to break cycles that are destructive for all of us…Keeping this secret, I realized, doesn’t serve anybody. ” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ron Howard

Director/Producer

Michelle John

Subject

Xan Parker

Producer

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr

"That opening sequence is far more harrowing than anything I’ve ever staged as a director of scripted movies.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Bryan Fogel

Director/Producer/Writer

Jake Swantko

Producer/Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Matthew Carey

"The question became, how could we really tell…the untold story behind this murder?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Dror Moreh

Director

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"Luckily enough I got those really unbelievable, amazing still photos which were shot inside the [negotiating] rooms, which nobody has seen before.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Barbora “Barbar” Kysilkova

Subject

Benjamin Ree

Director

MODERATOR: Matthew Carey

"For me the film is about what do we humans do in order to be seen and appreciated and what it takes for us to see others and appreciate others.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jeff Orlowski

Director

MODERATOR: Amanda N'Duka

"One of the subjects of The Social Dilemma referenced this technology as a ‘climate change of culture’ and that sort of shattered my brain...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Gregory Kershaw

Director/Producer/
Cinematographer

Michael Dweck

Director/Producer/
Cinematographer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"When we stumbled upon this region in Italy we were fascinated by it. … It was like a fairytale kingdom and we wanted to capture that place on film.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Laura Dern

Producer

Jayme Lemons

Producer

Dawn Porter

Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"I think what Pete’s showing is, yes, there’s pomp and circumstance and there’s grandiosity but there’s also something really basic that’s happening...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Garrett Bradley

Director

MODERATOR: Amanda N'Duka

"I think we have to be optimistic in order to manifest change. I think we can’t give up.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ophelia Harutyunyan

Director

Alex Gibney

Director

Suzanne Hillinger

Director

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"There is really no justification to why we’re doing so badly, other than that the government just doesn’t care.” Read Story Here