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The doors are open again at Cinema Café, where the culture of conversation is reinvigorated. Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thought-provoking encounters and fascinating dialogue.
The doors are open again at Cinema Café, where the culture of conversation is reinvigorated. Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thought-provoking encounters and fascinating dialogue. Previous Cinema Café guests have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tessa Thompson, Jane Campion, Eugenio Derbez, Lena Dunham, Norman Lear, Kumail Nanjiani, Saoirse Ronan, Spike Lee, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Radha Blank, Ira Glass, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charlie Kaufman, Ice-T, Winston Duke, Eva Victor, Mstyslav Chernov, Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya, Marlee Matlin, Chloë Sevigny, Celine Song, D. Smith, and many others.
Events located at the Filmmaker Lodge are free for all Festival badge holders and attendees with a Festival ID attached to a 2026 Sundance Film Festival account.
Access is provided on a first-come, first-served basis and is subject to seating availability. No ticket or pre-registration is required to attend.
This talk will be livestreamed and a recording will be posted approximately 24 hours later.
Antoine Fuqua is the director and producer behind award-winning films including Training Day, The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer franchise, Southpaw, Olympus Has Fallen, Brooklyn’s Finest, Shooter, and King Arthur. Documentaries include American Dream/American Knightmare, Lightning in a Bottle, What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali, and Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers. Next up: a Michael Jackson biopic.
Billie Jean King was the year-end No. 1 player in the world six times in her career. She is the first woman athlete to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the first individual woman athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. She is the founder of the Women’s Sports Foundation and the Women’s Tennis Association, part of the ownership groups of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Angel City FC, on the advisory board of the PWHL, and a New York Times bestselling author.
The Sundance Film Festival’s Power of Story conversation looks to deepen public engagement with the art of storytelling, delve into cinema culture, and celebrate artists whose work propels and reinvents the form.
The Big Conversation tackles science, art, culture, and the movements that are fueling the imaginations of today’s independent artists.
The doors are open again at Cinema Café, where the culture of conversation is reinvigorated. Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thought-provoking encounters and fascinating dialogue.
The doors are open again at Cinema Café, where the culture of conversation is reinvigorated. Our series of informal chats brings together special guests for thought-provoking encounters and fascinating dialogue.
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