KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Actress, Youngest Hollywood EP, NAACP Award Winner

British Screenwriter & Director Known for "Belle" and "A Way of Life"

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"

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

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

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

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

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 Award-winning Production Designer, Art Directors Guild Award Winner, Afrofuturist Cultural Curator

American Actress; Founder of Color Farm Media; Thought Leader on Racial & Gender Equity

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

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

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

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

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"