What exactly are movie producers looking for when searching for new creative voices? Academy Award® nominated Director Carlos López Estrada (“Raya and the Last Dragon”) — and winner of the Dolby Institute Fellowship — returns with another all-star panel to discuss this very topic, with some of the top producers in the field. So if you are an aspiring filmmaker, screenwriter, director, or any of the above early in your career, this episode is filled with real-world advice for navigating the film industry as an emerging creative voice.

Joining Carlos are producers:

- Christina Oh, Producer, “Minari”

- Poppy Hanks, Executive Producer, “Judas and the Black Messiah”

- Michael Gottwald, Producer, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

- Andrew Hevia, Producer, “Moonlight”

- Janet Yang, President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences / Producer, “The Joy Luck Club” and “Over the Moon.”

“I try to see as much stuff as possible, then just reach out to people when something seems just really great. But a lot of it has, of course, been like: You work with one director, that director knows this other person [and] says, ‘you guys, you should talk.’ You then meet that person, you realize you love their work and you want to work with them [too]. Anything that makes your world smaller I think in this industry is super helpful.”

—Michael Gottwald, Producer, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

This discussion was streamed live as part of Antigravity Academy’s new Satellite Sessions — “monthly conversations with incredibly exciting figures from the film and TV universe” — co-presented by CAPE USA (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment).

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