PANELISTS:

James Gray

Writer/Director/Producer

Jeremy Strong

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

“I’m a big fan of great actors because what they do is tend to make you look considerably more capable than you actually are." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

James Cameron

Writer/Director/Producer

Russell Carpenter

Cinematographer

Deborah L. Scott

Costume Designer

Dylan Cole

Production Designer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"[My kids] laughingly know they’re sorta, kinda in [the film], through a funhouse mirror — the conflict, the dysfunction but also the bonds and the strong love...” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Diego Calva

Actor

Justin Hurwitz

Composer

Florencia Martin

Production Designer

Mary Zophres

Costume Designer

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"This is a wild, wild movie, so we wanted a score that would kind of take us on this crazy manic trip. So, we used mostly instruments from the era … but in a lot more contemporary ways.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Writer/Director/Producer

Ximena Lamadrid

Actor

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Actor

Eugenio Caballero

Production Designer

Martín Hernández

Sound Designer & Supervisor

Anna Terrazas

Costume Designer

MODERATOR: Mike Fleming Jr.

“To me, the film is more like a concept album. I feel like you can just place the needle on the vinyl and let it go." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Danai Gurira

Actor

Ryan Coogler

Co-Writer/Director

Kevin Feige

Producer

Angela Bassett

Actor

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

"The culture that Chadwick cultivated in that first movie was present, he was always with us when we trained in the second movie, too.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Ana de Armas

Actor

Adrien Brody

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

"What people thought of her was not at all what she felt like.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Luca Guadagnino

Director/Producer

David Kajganich

Writer/Producer

Atticus Ross

Composer/Songwriter

Trent Reznor

Composer/Songwriter

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"There just aren’t many directors I would trust to try to take a crack at something. So when I finished the script, I sent it to Luca and crossed my fingers.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Lila Neugebauer

Director/EP

Brian Tyree Henry

Actor

Jennifer Lawrence

Actor/Producer

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

“There was a development of actual friendship between Jen and I, and we discovered that that’s kind of what we wanted our characters to develop as well.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Marie Kreutzer

Writer/Director

Vicky Krieps

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

“There was something that I could understand about being a woman or becoming a woman and can feel like being trapped or imprisoned in your body or your position.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Park Chan-wook

Co-Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

“I made up a plan to use the language barrier as a central element of the film.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Austin Butler

Actor

Baz Luhrmann

Co-Writer/ Director/Producer

Gail Berman

Producer

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

“I’ve made some films, [but] I don’t think anyone on this motion picture will ever have an experience like this [again].” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jerzy Skolimowski

Writer/Director/Producer

Ewa Piaskowska

Writer/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“We decided that we are not going to follow the traditional linear narration of the film. We were fed up with it." Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Jason Loftus

Writer/Director/Producer

MODERATOR: Matt Carey

“If I get an invitation from the [Chinese] government, it’s a one-way ticket — and I’m not taking it.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Rian Johnson

Writer/Director/Producer

Janelle Monáe

Actor

Kathryn Hahn

Actor

Kate Hudson

Actor

Bob Ducsay

Editor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"On weekends to blow off steam, the group full of actors, we would rent out the hotel bar up top, get very drunk together and play Mafia." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Guillermo del Toro

Writer/Director/Producer

Mark Gustafson

Director

Alexandre Desplat

Composer

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

“After Pan’s Labyrinth, we started talking about Pinocchio around 2004 and we were already being happily rejected in 2008 by every major studio.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Oliver Hermanus

Director

Bill Nighy

Actor

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

“You know you’re in a hit when you get messages from people you were at school with or people you haven’t heard from in a long time.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Peggy Holmes

Director

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

"I thought it could be a great opportunity to create an emotional story about someone with no family finding a forever family.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Nikyatu Jusu

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Matt Grobar

“The darker genres allow you to tell the truth in a way that is really titillating and interesting and pulls the audience in a way that doesn’t feel preachy or pedantic.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Davy Chou

Director

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“After three hours of hearing who she was and what she has experienced, I was feeling, ‘If that woman can act in front of a camera, she’s gonna be the one.’ ” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Zoe Kazan

Actor

Maria Schrader

Director

Carey Mulligan

Actor

MODERATOR: Joe Utichi

“We were all in partnership making this, it felt like there was this cadre of women linking arms, coming together to put this story on screen.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Gabriel LaBelle

Actor

Judd Hirsch

Actor

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“[Steven Spielberg] didn’t really tell me anything. That made me nervous. He didn’t sit down and say, ‘When I was 5...' ” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tobias Lindholm

Director

Eddie Redmayne

Actor

Jessica Chastain

Actor

MODERATOR: Pete Hammond

"Why was it a single mom, with heart disease, an ICU nurse, that is responsible for stopping him? Why wasn’t the system able to?” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Florian Zeller

Co-Writer/ Director/Producer

Hugh Jackman

Actor

Laura Dern

Actor

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

“This [was] writing that exposes humanity in a way we rarely receive. As an actor it was such an incredible gift.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Florence Pugh

Actor

Sebastián Lelio

Writer/Director

MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth

"I thought that was very 2022, faith versus science or nationalism versus magical thinking." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

James D. Wilcox

Editor

Ron Howard

Director/Producer

Rachael Tate

Supervising Sound Editor

Oliver Tarney

Supervising Sound Editor

Benjamin Wallfisch

Composer

MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming

"We just needed to get these details right because it’s a Thai story. ... They’re very proud of it, and we have no duty being wrong about these details." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Chinonye Chukwu

Co-Writer/Director

Danielle Deadwyler

Actor

Jalyn Hall

Actor

Keith Beauchamp

Co-Writer/Producer

MODERATOR: Baz Bamigboye

“Hollywood never wanted to touch this film.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Joseph Kosinski

Director

Jennifer Connelly

Actor

Miles Teller

Actor

Jerry Bruckheimer

Producer

MODERATOR: Justin Kroll

“[In the] first movie, we put the actors in the F14s and they all threw up and we couldn’t use any of the footage.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Noah Baumbach

Writer/Director/
Producer

Greta Gerwig

Actor

Danny Elfman

Composer

MODERATOR: Dominic Patten

"Then he said ‘It’s really for you Danny. It’s about death and the fear of death. That’s right up your alley.’ And I said ‘I’m in!’ ” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Claire Foy

Actress

Sarah Polley

Writer/Director

Dede Gardner

Producer

Ben Whishaw

Actor

MODERATOR: Valerie Complex

"I’ve never ever done anything like it in my life, and I really hope every job is like this. And I know very painfully it won’t be.” Read Story Here