Neon
Anora
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Panelists
Sean Baker
Writer/Director/
Producer/Editor/
Casting Director
Mikey Madison
Actor
Alex Coco
Producer
Samantha Quan
Producer
MODERATOR: Pete Hammond
“I think that everyone would agree, we just feel so fortunate to have one of the best casts ever. They came from all around the world, just super kind people, super generous with cast and crew. And yeah, honestly … it feels like a Cinderella story.”
OAK Motion Pictures
I’m Not a Robot
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Panelists
Victoria Warmerdam
Writer/Director
Trent
Producer
MODERATOR: Pete Hammond
“…It’s not the story about the woman who finds out I’m not a robot or whether she finds out or not. We won’t spoil, but it’s not about that. It’s about much more than that.”
Disney/Pixar
Inside Out 2
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Panelist
Kelsey Mann
Director
MODERATOR: Pete Hammond
“I did try to literally go in deeper with what Riley’s going to experience, because those are my favorite sequels — the ones that kind of enhance and grow and kind of explore things or a little more complicated.”
IFC Films
Memoir of
a Snail
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Panelist
Adam Elliot
Writer/Director/
Producer
MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming
“I’m quite cruel to her as a writer, but I felt that needed to be so that when the moments of levity came along, the moments of comedy and humor and warmth, they were really powerful and potent.”
Orion Pictures /
Amazon MGM Studios
Nickel Boys
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Panelists
RaMell Ross
Co-Writer/Director
Joslyn Barnes
Co-Writer/Producer
MODERATOR: Pete Hammond
“I think in that sense, Nickel Boys definitely has something to offer, at least as a sort of response or a side of resistance to stories that were fundamentally buried.”
National Geographic
Documentary Films
Sugarcane
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Panelists
Emily Kassie
Director/
Producer/ Cinematographer
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Director
MODERATOR: Matt Carey
“…One of the central kind of ideas behind Sugarcane is this question of what happens when the ghosts come home to tell the story.”
Six Feet Films
The Last Ranger
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Panelists
Cindy Lee
Director
Darwin Shaw
Writer/Producer/Editor
MODERATOR: Antonia Blyth
“Your heart is so wide open that at the end of the film, when those numbers come up, you just absorb them and you hang on to them and they really stay with people.”
DreamWorks Animation
The Wild Robot
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Panelists
Chris Sanders
Writer/Director
Kris Bowers
Composer
Randy Thom
Supervising Sound Designer
MODERATOR: Ryan Fleming
“I knew from the moment I read the book that we had to move in a completely new direction in order to faithfully get this narrative up on the screen.”
Universal Pictures
Wicked
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Panelists
Myron Kerstein, ACE
Film Editor
Nancy Nugent Title
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Design
John Marquis
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Design/
Re-Recording Mixer
Andy Nelson
Re-Recording Mixer
MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro
“If you don’t at least get a handle on what your doing emotionally, then the rest of it is going to fall apart.”