KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

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

Actor, Director & Comedian; Known for "Scary Movie" & "White Chicks"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Actor, TV Director, Award-Winning Dancer & Broadway Star

Actor, Director, Independent Filmmaker, NAACP Award Nominee

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

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

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

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

Acclaimed Actor, Producer & Leading Social Activist

Comedic Actor Best Known for Spoofs like "Scary Movie" and "Dance Flick"

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

Yale Drama Graduate, Tony Nominee, Emmy Award Winner

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