SCL Online Screening + Q&A: Minari

Composer & Songwriter EMILE MOSSERI Writer & Director LEE ISAAC CHUNG MODERATED BY TIM GREIVING (Film Music Journalist) Screening Link Instructions available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 6:30PM PT A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their…

Holiday Social

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 5:00-6:30 pm (PT) / 8:00-9:30 pm (ET) The Covid Grinch will NOT have his way with the SCL. In lieu of past in-person holiday celebrations, we're hosting a low-key, festive Holiday Social - all members are welcome! As well as engaging in a long overdue 'virtual face to face' with everyone (rather than…

Mulan

Q&A with Composer HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS MODERATED BY SCL President ASHLEY IRWIN Screening Link Instructions available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 5:00pm PT Disney’s Mulan, suggested by the narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan,” brings China’s legendary warrior to life in the story of a fearless young woman - masquerading as a…

The Midnight Sky

Q&A with Composer ALEXANDRE DESPLAT Moderated by JON BURLINGAME (Variety) Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 - 12:30PM PT This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a…

The Life Ahead

Q&A with Songwriter DIANE WARREN Original Song - “Io Si (Seen)”  Director/Writer EDOARDO PONTI Moderated by MELINDA NEWMAN (Billboard) Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 - 7:30PM PT In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo has ambitions to make his fortune in…

Shirley

Q&A with Composer/Performing Artist TAMAR-KALI Moderated by JAZZ TANGCAY (Variety) Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 - 6:30pm PT Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship…

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Q&A with Songwriter SAVAN KOTECHA Director DAVID DOBKIN Moderated by BILGE EBIRI (Vulture) Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 - 1:00pm PT When aspiring Icelandic musicians Lars (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit (Rachel McAdams) are given the opportunity of a lifetime to represent their country at the world's biggest song…

News of the World

Q&A with Composer JAMES NEWTON HOWARD Director PAUL GREENGRASS Moderated by TIM GREIVING (Film Music Journalist) Screening Link Instructions Provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A TUESDAY, JANUARY 5 - 1:00pm PT Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from…

Nasrin

Q&A with Songwriters LYNN AHRENS (Lyrics) & STEPHEN FLAHERTY (Music) Original Song: "How Can I Tell You?" Director/Producer/Writer JEFF KAUFMAN Producer MARCIA ROSS Moderated by ANNE THOMPSON (IndieWire) Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 - 1:00pm PT Secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to…

Da 5 Bloods

Q&A with Composer TERENCE BLANCHARD Moderated by SCL President ASHLEY IRWIN Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 - 6:30pm PT From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a New Joint: the story of four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah…

Greyhound

Q&A with Composer BLAKE NEELY  Moderated by JON BURLINGAME (Variety) Screening Link Instructions provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 - 6:30PM PT Tom Hanks stars as a longtime Navy veteran who, as a first-time captain, is tasked with protecting a convoy of 37 ships carrying thousands of soldiers and much-needed supplies…

The One and Only Ivan

Q&A with Songwriter DIANE WARREN Original Song "Free" Moderated by Composer/Songwriter/SCL Board Member LYNN KOWAL Screening Link provided with Registration Confirmation YouTube Live Stream Q&A FRIDAY, JANUARY 8 - 5:30pm PT Based on Katherine Applegate’s book, Disney’s The One and Only Ivan is a tale of friendship, loyalty, and the importance of home. Ivan, a silverback gorilla, is the star in a…