The Voice of Dust and Ash
The Voice of Dust and Ash is the untold story of monumental artist and humanitarian Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian, hailed by NPR as “one of the 50 greatest voices of all time” and by the Wall Street Journal as “the most important Iranian cultural figure of the last 3 decades.” When Iran’s ayatollah banned music…
Five Days at Memorial
Composer TORIN BORROWDALE Director MODERATED BY BYRON BURTON (The Hollywood Reporter, Awards Focus) Screening Link available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A Tuesday, November 29, 2:00PM (PT) Five Days at Memorial is based on actual events and adapted from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, which chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and…
Raymond and Ray
Raymond & Ray follows half-brothers Raymond and Ray who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow, they still each have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger, there’s pain, there’s folly, there might be love, and there’s definitely gravedigging. Not Rated | 106mins Jeff…
A Friend of the Familiy
Composer ARIEL MARX MODERATED BY CHRIS WILLMAN (Variety) Screening Link available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A Wednesday, November 30, 6:30PM (PT) A Friend of the Family is based on the harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by a charismatic, obsessed family…
Bad Sisters
Composer TIM PHILLIPS MODERATED BY BYRON BURTON (The Hollywood Reporter, Awards Focus) Screening Link available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A Thursday, December 1, 2:00PM (PT) A delicious blend of both dark comedy and thriller, Bad Sisters follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents…
White Noise
Composer DANNY ELFMAN Writer & Director NOAH BAUMBACH MODERATED BY JON BURLINGAME (Variety) Thursday, December 1, 7:00PM PT Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct. At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while…
Shantaram
Composer ADAM PETERS MODERATED BY JIM HEMPHILL (Filmmaker & Film Historian) Screening Link available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A Friday, December 2, 2:00PM (PT) Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram follows a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) who is looking to get lost in the vibrant and chaotic 1980s,…
Nope
SPECIAL 70mm NEW YORK PREMIER Composer MICHAEL ABELS MODERATED BY CHRIS O'FALT (IndieWire) Friday, December 2, 6:00PM ET Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct. Nope, by Oscar® winner Jordan Peele, reimagines the summer movie. It's an expansive pop epic of uncanny science fiction and complex social thriller that unpacks the seeds of violence,…
Where the Crawdads Sing
Composer MYCHAEL DANNA Director OLIVIA NEWMAN MODERATED BY ASHLEY IRWIN (SCL President) Friday, December 2, 7:00PM PT Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct. A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved. PG-13 | 125mins…
Matilda: The Musical
Composer TIM MINCHIN MODERATED BY JENELLE RILEY (Variety) Saturday, December 3, 11:00AM PT Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct. Matilda Wormwood is a little girl with big curiosity, a sharp mind, and a vivid imagination — and the worst parents in the world. While her parents content themselves with trashy TV and dodgy…
A Tree of Life
Songwriter & Vocalist of the song "A Tree of Life" IDINA MENZEL Songwriter & Producer of the song, "A Tree of Life" KATE DIAZ Director, Writer, & Producer TRISH ADLESIC MODERATED BY JAZZ TANGCAY (Variety) Screening Link available upon Registration YouTube Live Stream Q&A Monday, December 5, 1:00PM (PT) A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting…
All Quiet on the Western Front
Composer VOLKER BERTELMANN MODERATED BY JON BURLINGAME (Variety) Monday, December 5, 7:00PM PT Please be mindful of the SCL's Code of Conduct. All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of…