KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Award-Winning Executive Producer, Screenwriter & Author; CEO of Shondaland

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Writer & Director Known for "Love & Basketball" & Netflix's "The Old Guard"; First Black Woman to Direct a Major Comic-Book Movie

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Director

Emmy-winning Writer, Producer, Advocate for Queer & BIPOC Voices

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

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

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Actress Known for "Scary Movie," "The Best Man" & "Ally McBeal"; First African American to Win a New York Film Critics Circle Award

Actor Known for Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Us"

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

Critically Acclaimed Haitian Filmmaker Known for "I Am Not Your Negro" & "Lumumba"

Award-Winning Writer & Director Known for "Pariah"

Legendary Movie Producer, Emmy Nominee, & Storyteller; Founder of Will Packer Productions

English Actor, Producer, Rapper and DJ; Best Known for His Roles in "The Wire" & "Luther"

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"