Art & Activism with Reinaldo Marcus Greene (MONSTERS AND MEN) and more

Silas Howard is an award-winning writer/director focused on telling honest, boundary-shattering stories featuring groundbreaking characters. After his first feature film, By Hook or By Crook (2002 Sundance Film Festival), won several awards at world film festivals, Howard began directing documentaries, music videos, and television. His recent television credits include Transparent, The Fosters, This Is Us, and Faking It. His latest feature film A Kid Like Jake premiered at Sundance this year to widespread praise and will be distributed by IFC. Howard received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and will co–executive produce and direct on FX’s upcoming Pose. 

Laura Nix recently directed Inventing Tomorrow (Sundance US Documentary Competition, CPH:DOX 2018), and was named a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker, a prestigious award given to experienced US-based women filmmakers. Nix previously directed The Yes Men Are Revolting, (TIFF 2014, Berlinale 2015), The Light in Her Eyes (IDFA), The Politics of Fur (Grand Jury Prize, Outfest), and Whether You Like It Or Not. She’s the recipient of the Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship. Her work has screened theatrically domestically and internationally, on New York Times Op-Docs, and on television via HBO, PBS, Arte, ZDF, VPRO, CBC, NHK, and Canal+. 

Reinaldo Marcus Green is a writer, director, and producer. He directed and co-wrote Bob Marley: One Love, a global box office hit starring Kingsley Ben-Adir. He is best known for King Richard, which earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and won Best Actor for Will Smith. His debut feature, Monsters and Men, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. Green also directed HBO’s We Own This City and Netflix’s Top Boy, the first Netflix series inducted into the BFI National Archive. His films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, and TIFF. He most recently directed the upcoming Marvel television special, The Punisher: One Last Kill, which is releasing on Disney+ on May 12. He is developing a Tiger Woods biopic produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.