Forum Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Justin Simien Director, The Haunted Mansion, Dear White People

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Changemaker Award Recipients

Smriti Mundhra Director, The Romantics, St. Louis Superman

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Pamela Ribon Creator/Writer, My Year of Dicks

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Kim Yutani Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival

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Panelists & Participants

Stephanie Allain Executive Producer; Leimert Park, Really Love

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Maria Altamirano Producer, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt; Co-Producer, Los Espookys

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John August Writer; Aladdin, Big Fish

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Thembi Banks Writer/Director, Young. Wild. Free.

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Julian Breece Writer; Rustin, When They See Us

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Ryan Broussard VP, Sales and Production Incentives, Wrapbook

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Lisa Callif Partner, Donaldson Callif Perez

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Tze Chun Executive Producer, Secrets of the Mogwai; Writer, Gotham

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Jess Dang Writer/Director, Surrender

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Eric d'Arbeloff Co-President, Roadside Attractions

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Adamma & Adanne Ebo Writer/Director and Producer; Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul

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John Patton Ford Writer/Director, Emily the Criminal

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Alton Glass CEO, GRX Immersive Labs

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Aurora Guerrero Director; Queen Sugar, Mosquita y Mari

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Jacob Jaffke Producer; X, Pearl, MaXXXine; EP, Bodies Bodies Bodies

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Jenny Jue Casting Director, Okja

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Eddie Kim Producer, Liquor Store Dreams

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Adina Luo Director, You Have the Floor

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Billy Luther Writer/Director; Frybread Face and Me, Miss Navajo

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Liz Manashil Distribution Consultant; formerly, Sundance Creative Distribution

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Stephanie Meurer Producer; Uncle Frank, Native Son

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Melanie Miller Producer; Stutz, Navalny

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Jessica Olthof Producer, Surrender

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Alex Orlovsky Producer, His Three Daughters; EP, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

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Darren Haruo Rae Producer, Surrender

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Orly Ravid Founder/Co-Executive Director, The Film Collaborative

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Billy Ray Writer/Producer; Captain Phillips, Richard Jewell, The Hunger Games

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Jay Redd VFX Supervisor; For All Mankind, Alice Through the Looking Glass

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Danielle Renfrew Behrens Producer; Columbus, Loot

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Peter Simonite Director of Photography, Frybread Face and Me

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Valerie Stadler Producer, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe; EP, Fat Camp

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William Swartout Chief Technology Officer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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Drew Sykes Producer, Emily the Criminal

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Rahdi Taylor Executive VP; The Concordia Fellowship, Concordia Studio

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Datari Turner Producer; They Cloned Tyrone, Uncorked

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So Yun Um Writer/Director/Producer, Liquor Store Dreams

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Andi Wong Agent, CAA

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Miranda Yousef Director, Art for Everybody

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