Events

Guest Editors; Brian A. Kates, ACE & Stacy Goldate, ACE are chatting with BFE Governor Andrew McKee BFE about this documentary.

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with editor Evan Schiff, ACE as he discusses his work on the 2025 Gothic drama, Frankenstein.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. (Description by Netflix)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Tuesday December 16 at 8PM ET/5PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Tuesday December 16 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Wednesday, December 17 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

For Active ACE members' only. Active members, please check your email for additional details and RSVP information.

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director Byron Howard & editor Jeremy Milton, ACE, as they discuss their work on the 2025 animated buddy cop comedy, Zootopia 2.

In Zootopia 2, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde's partnership is tested after they become fugitives from the law while chasing a mysterious pit viper who arrives in town to uncover buried secrets as old as the city of Zootopia itself. (Description by Walt Disney Animation Studios)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, December 17 at 8PM ET/5PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Wednesday, December 17 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Thursday, December 18 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/producer Dan Trachtenberg, visual effects supervisor Sheldon Stopsack (Weta), visual effects producer/co-producer Kathy Siegel, animation supervisor Karl Rapley (Weta), visual effects supervisor Olivier Dumont as they discuss their work on the 2025 science fiction action film, Predator: Badlands.

Predator: Badlands, which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator (Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg; produced by John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, Brent O’Connor and edited by Stefan Grube and David Trachtenberg. (Description by 20th Century Studios)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Thursday, December 18 at 8PM ET/5PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Thursday, December 18 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Monday, December 22 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with writer/producer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho and editors Eduardo Serrano & Matheus Farias, as they discuss their work on the 2025 neo-noir historical political thriller, The Secret Agent.

In 1977, under Brazil’s dictatorship, a widowed dissident flees a corrupt official and returns to Recife during Carnival to reunite with his son. Hunted by two assassins and aided by a benefactor, he discovers his hometown is far deadlier than he ever imagined. (Description by NEON)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Monday, January 5 at 8:30PM ET/5:30PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Monday, January 5 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Wednesday, January 7 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

ACE Members, please check your email for additional details and registration information.

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/producer/editor Laura Poitras and editors Peter Bowman and Amy Foote, ACE, as they discuss their work on the 2025 documentary, Cover-Up.

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence — revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes, and interweaving primary documents and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power and process of investigative journalism. (Synopsis by Netflix)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Tuesday, January 6 at 4PM ET/1PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Tuesday, January 6 at 8PM ET/5PM PT
Encore 2: Tuesday, January 6 at 11PM ET/8PM PT

ACE Members, please check your email for additional details and registration information.

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer/producer Park Chan-wook & editor Kim Sang-beom, as they discuss their work on the 2025 South Korean satirical black comedy thriller, No Other Choice.

From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years. (Synopsis by NEON)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, January 7 at 9PM ET/6PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Wednesday, January 7 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Thursday, January 8 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with writer/producer/director Rian Johnson & editor Bob Ducsay, ACE, as they discuss their work on the 2025 mystery, Wake Up Dead Man.

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’s modest but devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly wound lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), bestselling author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny). After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic. Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson writes and directs Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and assembles another all-star, award-winning cast.
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Thursday, January 8 at 8PM ET/5PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Thursday, January 8 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Friday, January 9 at 1PM ET/10AM PT

The Q&Agency (FKA 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 media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer/producer Petra Costa and editors David Barker, ACE; Nels Bangerter; Tina Baz, as they discuss their work on the documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics.

When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, director Petra Costa takes us on a decade-long journey through the spiritual and political upheaval of Brazil. What begins as a search for signs of life in a fragile democracy transforms into a deeper inquiry into the seductions of power, prophecy and belief. Costa gains extraordinary access to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former President Jair Bolsonaro and the nation’s magnetic televangelist Silas Malafaia. More than a chronicle of political change, Apocalypse in the Tropics is a cinematic investigation of the fault lines that emerge when religion fuels political ambition. With the savage clarity that defined her Academy Award–nominated The Edge of Democracy, Costa documents a time of kaleidoscopic confusion and fear with intimate observational filmmaking that braids together the personal, the historic and the mythic. As faith shifts from private refuge to public battleground, Brazil holds a mirror to a world where democracies are being tested by the power of prophecy. (Synopsis by Netflix)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Friday, January 9 at 5:30PM ET/2:30PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Saturday, January 10 at 3PM ET/12PM PT
Encore 2: Saturday, January 10 at 6PM ET/3PM PT