Calling all cinephiles! Join us on Thursday, July 18th at 7pm EST for an intimate Q&A with the post team behind The Bear. Bring your questions to this informal Q&A and learn about the post-production process behind this hit TV show. Made in NY, Post-Production by Senior Post based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, as he discusses his work on the 2018 supernatural horror film Hereditary. Ari Aster’s horrifically disturbing debut feature, Hereditary, is truly chilling, but more importantly, it’s a compelling, astute drama that vividly dissects a family’s cracked psychology. In the lead, Toni Collette gives a detailed, go-for-broke performance, and Alex Wolff goes toe-to-toe with her with as much intensity and confidence. And, as shot by Aster’s frequent cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, Hereditary is a visually luminous work that slowly builds dread and mystery through this inventive artist’s work. Edited by Jennifer Lame, ACE, and Lucian Johnston, Hereditary is one of the great family dramas/horror films of the past decade that announced the arrival of a provocative new voice in filmmaking and became a surprise box office hit. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, July 22 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Join us for a Q&A with screenwriter Eric Roth, as he discusses his work on the 1994 comedy-drama film Forrest Gump. Winner of 6 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Film Editing for Arthur Schmidt, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Eric Roth, Forrest Gump is a film that is so moving, so sweet, and so expertly-crafted that it’s outlasted most of its contemporaries. Following an Alabamian, Forrest Gump, who finds himself at the center or just to the side of many critical points in mid-20th Century US history, this warm, winsome film is endlessly endearing and full of moments that became cultural touchpoints. In adapting Winston Groom’s 1986 novel for the screen, Eric Roth proved once again why he’s the master of film adaptations (six of his seven Oscar nominations are for Best Adapted Screenplay), as he gave this epic, decades-spanning story both the requisite sweep and a huge heart. Endlessly quotable and with an iconic Tom Hanks at its center, Forrest Gump is a zeitgeist-capturing sensation that found director Robert Zemeckis at the peak of his powers, displaying his mastery of mixing human drama with technical wizardry to great effect. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, July 29 at 7PM ET/4PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with actor Greg Sestero, as he discusses his work in the 2003 unintentionally hilarious cult drama The Room. The Room is this generation's Rocky Horror Picture Show – an I-can't-believe-anyone-made-a-movie-like-this midnight movie sensation courtesy of enigmatic director, producer, writer, star Tommy Wiseau and editor Eric Yalkut Chase. Now billed as a “black comedy”, there’s nothing in this unintentionally hilarious film that indicates it was ever intended to be anything but a drama. Full of now-iconic one-liners – “Oh hai, Mark!” – gratuitous sex scenes, and frequent shots of a spoon painting sitting on a table (at midnight screenings, audience members throw plastic spoons every time the picture appears), The Room is a joy-inducing spectacle. And, to top it all off, co-star and frequent Wiseau conspirator, Greg Sestero, wrote a bestselling book, The Disaster Artist, that chronicles the making of The Room that was itself adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. The Roomis our programmer Joshua Handler’s favorite cult movie that is a passionately-made work which has given the world over 20 years of happiness and nonstop laughter. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, August 5 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer David Wain, as he discusses his work on the 2001 satirical comedy Wet Hot American Summer. David Wain and Michael Showalter have a very distinct sense of humor – over-the-top, low-brow, and raunchy – and upon release in 2001, few understood the giddy genius of their paean to summer camp movies, Wet Hot American Summer. Starring a group of then-relative unknowns, many of whom would go on to A-list status – Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and others – and edited by Meg Reticker, this raucous raunchfest quickly found a devoted cult following that has grown by the year. What makes Wet Hot so special is the love and sincerity with which it was made as well as its willingness to go anywhere and do anything. Like so many other great cult movies, Wet Hot American Summer was simply ahead of its time, though luckily the world seems to have caught up with it. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, August 19 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**