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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.
+ MoreThe 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.
Gregg Araki, a fixture in indie film for over 30 years, is the writer-director of Mysterious Skin, White Bird in a Blizzard, and The Living End. He recently restored his cult classics The Doom Generation and Nowhere. For television, he worked on Dahmer, American Gigolo, and Now Apocalypse.
Nicole Holofcener has written and directed seven feature films, including Friends With Money, Enough Said, and You Hurt My Feelings. She co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Can You Ever Forgive Me? In addition to her film work, Holofcener has directed numerous television series, including Parks and Recreation and Mrs. Fletcher.
Richard Linklater has directed 26 feature length films, garnering much acclaim as well as five Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Awards and two BAFTA Awards, including BAFTA’s Best Picture Award for Boyhood. His credits include Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Before Sunset as well as recent projects Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, Hit Man, Blue Moon, and Nouvelle Vague.
Recently named one of the 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time in The Hollywood Reporter, John Pierson's Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes (1996) launched at the Sundance Film Festival 30 years ago. Pierson then created and hosted four seasons of IFC's first original series, Split Screen, currently streaming on Criterion Channel.
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.
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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