Forum Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Ashok Amritraj
Chairman & CEO, Hyde Park Entertainment
Elissa Federoff
President of Distribution, NEON
Dawn Porter
Director/Producer, John Lewis: Good Trouble
Lulu Wang
Writer/Director, The Farewell
Panelists
Richard Abramowitz
Abramorama
Waad al-Kateab
Director, For Sama
Day Al-Mohamed
FWD-Doc
Flavio Alves
Director, The Garden Left Behind
Ayten Amin
Writer/Director, Souad
Judd Apatow
Director
Mollye Asher
Producer, Swallow
Anna Maria Aslanoglu
Producer; Phases of Matter, The Gulf
Alice Austen
Writer/Producer, Give Me Liberty
Justine Avera
ABI Insurance
Paolo Bertolin
Venice International Film Festival, Cannes Directors Fortnight
Effie T. Brown
Gamechanger Films
Amra Bakšić Čamo
Cinelink
Victoria Chalk
A-Doc
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff
Catapult Film Fund
Karin Chien
dGenerate Films
Elsie Choi
Rideback TV Incubator
Chinonye Chukwu
Writer/Director, Clemency
Wendy Cohen
President, Picture Motion
Michael Covino
Writer/Director/Actor, The Climb
Gerren Crochet
Endeavor Content
Eric d'Arbeloff
Roadside Attractions
Sarba Das
A24
Eli Despres
Director/Producer/Editor, The Fight
Ira Deutchman
Deutchman Company Inc.
Sergio Fant
Berlinale
Feras Fayyad
Director; Last Men in Aleppo, The Cave
Lillie Fleshler
Picture Motion
Isabelle Glachant
Producer, 11 Flowers
Martin Gondre
Best Friend Forever
Anita Gou
Producer, The Farewell
Aurora Guerrero
Director, Gentefied
Mohamed Hefzy
Film Clinic, CIFF
Mathilde Henrot
Locarno Film Festival; Co-Founder, Festival Scope
Eugene Hernandez
New York Film Festival
Hanaa Issa
Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Leena Khobragade
Film Bazaar
Joshua Kriegman
Director/Producer, The Fight
Anne Lai
SFFILM
Alexandra Lazarowich
COUSIN Collective
Grace Lee
Director, And She Could Be Next
Jennice Lee
Dexter Studios
Wendy Lidell
Kino Lorber
Mynette Louie
Producer, Swallow
Stephen Love Jr.
Made with Love Media
Julie Lynn
Producer, Albert Nobbs
Alix Madigan-Yorkin
Vice President
David Magdael
David Magdael & Associates
Amanda Marshall
Producer; Swiss Army Man, Don't Think Twice
Kyle Marvin
Writer/Actor, The Climb
Alan McAlex
Producer, Once Again
Katie McNeill
Hunting Lane
Dana Merwin
IDA Enterprise Fund
Rima Mismar
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs
Sundance Institute
Guneet Monga
Producer, Period. End of Sentence.
Oualid Mouaness
Writer/Director, 1982
Okema Moore
MOOREthanEnuff Media
Ted Mundorff
Arclight Cinemas
Lorenza Muñoz
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Derek Nguyen
The Population
Luis Ortiz
Latino Public Broadcasting
Shari Page
Half Initiative
Nina Parikh
Director, Mississippi Film Office
Janet Pierson
South by Southwest
Braxton Pope
Producer, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter
Anayansi Prado
Director/Producer, Maid in America
Heather Rae
Producer, Bull
Peggy Rajski
Dean, School of Film & Television, LMU
Setu Raval
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Tim Redford
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Brenda Robinson
Gamechanger Films
Alison Roney
BRON Studios
Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
Undocumented Filmmaker Collective
Michel Ruben
Dynamo Productions
Marjan Safinia
Director, And She Could Be Next
Myriam Sassine
Producer; 1982, Amal
Paula Manzanedo Schmit
Film Finances, Inc.
Georges Schoucair
Abbout Productions
Elhum Shakerifar
Producer; Almost Heaven, Even When I Fall
Jeffrey Sharp
IFP, USA
Subina Shrestha
Independent journalist, filmmaker
John Sloss
Cinetic Media
Avril Speaks
Producer, Jinn
Andrea Sperling
Ziad Srouji
OSN
Mira Staleva
Sofia International Film Festival
Elyse Steinberg
Director/Producer, The Fight
Gabrielle Stewart
HanWay Films
Angela Tarrant
Executive Producer, HGTV’s Home Town
Rahdi Taylor
Concordia Studio
Kelly Todd
Endeavor Content
Christopher Tricarico
Producer, 1982
Datari Turner
Producer, Nine Days
Daniel Uslan
UCLA Health
Gülin Üstün
Meetings on the Bridge
Christine Vachon
Producer, Shirley
Diego Velasco
Co-Executive Producer, Netflix’s Social Distance
Caroline von Kuhn
Catalyst Initiative, Sundance Institute
Kerry Washington
Producer, The Fight
Edward Watts
Director, For Sama
Roy Wol
Producer, The Garden Left Behind
Phillip Youmans
Writer/Director, Burning Cane
Ramy Youssef
Creator, Ramy