Film Independent Members and guests are invited to join us for a live Q&A with The Queen’s Gambit actors Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Moses Ingram and Bill Camp, and executive producer William Horberg. Moderated by Jenelle Riley (Deputy Awards and Features Editor, Variety)

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius. Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast, determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess. The series is directed and written by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and executive produced by Frank, and William Horberg and Allan Scott, who also co-created the series. The Queen’s Gambit stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp.

The Queen’s Gambit is available on Netflix on October 23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrieqwSdgI
 
2020, 7 episodes, color | Directed by Scott Frank | Written by Scott Frank | Co-Created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott | Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp | Executive Produced by Scott Frank, William Horberg and Allan Scott

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