KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

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

Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Director; Best Known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" & "The Last King of Scotland"; Founder of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

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

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Director, Writer & Producer Known for "Precious," "Empire," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" & "The Deliverance"; Founder, Lee Daniels Entertainment

Comedian, Director & Writer; Known for "White Chicks" and "In Living Color"

Tony Award-winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

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

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

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Director

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

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

Former NFL Running Back; Golden Globe Nominated Actor Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Ballers"

Actor, Director, Independent Filmmaker, NAACP Award Nominee