KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Writer, Director & Filmmaker; First Black Woman to Direct a Marvel Film

Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

Award-Winning French Filmmaker Known for "Girlhood" & "Tomboy"

Film Director & Screenwriter, Known for the Live-Action "Mulan"

Film Director & Screenwriter Known for Directing "Wonder Woman"

Screenwriter, Known for "Bumblebee" & "Birds of Prey"

Filmmaker & Director of "Birds Of Prey;" First Asian Woman to Direct a U.S. Superhero Film

English Writer, Director, Producer & Actress Known For "Fleabag" & "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"

Academy & Golden Globe Award-Winning Actress & Film Producer; Gender & Racial Equality Advocate

NAACP Award-Winning Actress & Producer Known for "Black-ish" & "Little"

Director & Screenwriter; Best Known for "Jean of the Joneses" and " Everything, Everything"

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, Producer & Actor; Founder of Hillman Grad Productions; Advocate for Queer & BIPOC Voices

Director & Storyboard Artist; Best Known for "Kung Fu Panda 2"

Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning Writer, Director & Producer; Known for "Selma," "When They See Us" & "13th"; Founder of ARRAY

Founding Artistic Director of "the TEAM" Theatre Group; Tony Award-Winning Stage Director Best Known for "Hadestown"

Actress Known for "Jane the Virgin" & "Encanto"; Immigration Reform Advocate & Ambassador for the Immigration Resource Center

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Activist & Emmy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker, CEO of Production Company Fuuse

Golden Globe Award-Winning Actress, Producer, Director & Humanitarian

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.