Q&A on the HBO special I Said It, Y'all Thinking It with comedian Lil Rel Howery. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Returning to his hometown of Chicago for his second HBO special, actor and comedian Lil Rel Howery brings his signature storytelling style and spot-on impressions to the Chicago Theater. In his first hour-long stand-up since HBO’s “Live in Crenshaw” in 2019, Howery gets real on topics such as fame, fatherhood, and therapy – and performs sharp satirical takes on pr...
Dec 02, 2022•23 min
Q&A on the IFC Films movie Four Samosa with writer & director Ravi Kapoor and producer & actor Venk Potula. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. When a wanna-be rapper learns his ex-girlfriend is engaged to his rival, he teams up with three other misfits to steal her wedding diamonds and win her back.
Dec 01, 2022•25 min
Q&A on the film Blue's Big City Adventure with actor Joshua Dela Cruz. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Josh and Blue travel to New York City to attend an audition, hoping to star in a major Broadway musical while being a part of the cast.
Dec 01, 2022•25 min
Q&A on the Prime Video film Catherine Called Birdy with writer/director/producer Lena Dunham. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. In medieval England, the daughter of a financially destitute Lord thwarts her father's plans to marry her off to a wealthy suitor. When the most vile suitor arrives, her parent's love for her is tested.
Nov 30, 2022•29 min
Q&A with actor Sam Jaeger on The Handmaid's Tale and Devil in Ohio. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. The Handmaid's Tale - Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated...
Nov 30, 2022•27 min
Q&A on the Netflix series Ozark with co-executive producer/director/actor Laura Linney. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Nov 29, 2022•24 min
Q&A on the Netflix series The Crown with actor Elizabeth Debicki. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century.
Nov 29, 2022•24 min
Q&A on the film Cinema Sabaya with writer & director Orit Fouks Rotem and actors Dana Ivgy and Joanna Said. Eight women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, young filmmaker. With each camera take, the group dynamic forces the women to challenge their beliefs as they get to know one other.
Nov 28, 2022•24 min
Q&A on the Netflix film The Noel Diary with co-writer & director Charles Shyer. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. When a best-selling author returns home at Christmas to settle his mother's estate, he finds a diary that holds secrets to the past.
Nov 23, 2022•28 min
Q&A on the film Bones and All with screenwriter David Kajganich. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Love blossoms between a young woman on the margins of society and a disenfranchised drifter as they embark on a 3,000-mile odyssey through the backroads of America. However, despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their differences.
Nov 22, 2022•26 min
Q&A on the film Bantú Mama with director & co-writer Ivan Herrera and co-writer & actor Clarisse Albrecht. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. After being arrested in the Dominican Republic, an Afropean woman escapes and is sheltered by three minors in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.
Nov 21, 2022•26 min
Q&A on the FOX series Call Me Kat with actor Julian Gant. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. An optimistic and fun-loving woman continuously defies societal expectations, and her mother's wishes, to prove she can live a happy and fulfilling life on her own terms. Her first move? Using her entire savings to open a cat café in Louisville, Ky. Kat's in her element at her lively cat café, working alongside her friends: Randi, a bold, aspiring artist, and Phil, the café's resident ba...
Nov 21, 2022•25 min
Q&A on the Netflix series 1899 with actor Emily Beecham. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Immigrants on a steamship traveling from London to New York get caught up in a mysterious riddle after finding a second vessel adrift on the open sea.
Nov 18, 2022•31 min
Q&A on the HBO Max documentary Santa Camp with director & producer Nick Sweeney, producer Stacey Reiss, and film subjects Santa Chris, Trans Santa Levi, Dr. Claus Heidi, Santa Fin Ciappara, and Suki Ciappara. Professional Santas meet at a training camp and seek to incorporate more diversity in their ranks.
Nov 18, 2022•40 min
Q&A on the HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls with Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, Pauline Chalamet, Alyah Chanelle Scott. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Four roommates navigate their new freedom on the prestigious campus of Essex College.
Nov 17, 2022•11 min
Q&A on the Nickelodeon series The Really Loud House with actors Catherine and Aubin Bradley. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Lincoln Loud goes on new adventures in the town of Royal Woods with his best friend, Clyde McBride, while also navigating the chaos of living in a family with ten sisters.
Nov 17, 2022•16 min
Q&A on the documentary Bad Axe with director/producer/cinematographer David Siev, and family members & subjects Chun Siev and Jaclyn Siev. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian American family in rural Michigan fights to keep its restaurant and American dream alive.
Nov 17, 2022•37 min
Q&A on the Hulu documentary Aftershock with co-directors and producers Tonya Lewis Lee & Paula Eiselt. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. A disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac die due to childbirth complications. Now, their partners and families sound a rallying cry around this crisis.
Nov 16, 2022•26 min
Q&A on the Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial with cast Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Robert Pine, Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith Jr., Michael Gaston, and executive producer Carlton Cuse. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Chronicling the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a hospital. When the floodwaters rise, power fails and heat soars, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital are forced to make decisions that will follow them for years to come.
Nov 15, 2022•45 min
Q&A on the Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial with showrunner & executive producer Carlton Cuse and visual effects supervisors Eric Durst & Matt Whelan. Moderated by Will Mavity. Chronicling the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a hospital. When the floodwaters rise, power fails and heat soars, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital are forced to make decisions that will follow them for years to come.
Nov 15, 2022•28 min
Q&A on the Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial with showrunner & executive producer Carlton Cuse and production design Matthew Davies. Moderated by Will Mavity. Chronicling the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a hospital. When the floodwaters rise, power fails and heat soars, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital are forced to make decisions that will follow them for years to come.
Nov 14, 2022•29 min
Q&A on the Oscar eligible short film Dimensions of Self with writer/producer/actor Matías Figueroa. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Dimensions of Self is an uncontrollable ride of emotions that unfolds an outlook over Mathew Ripperton’s unsounded inner dialogues.
Nov 14, 2022•28 min
Q&A on the series SAS: Rogue Heroes with actor Connor Swindells. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. During World War II, eccentric young officer David Stirling is hospitalized in Cairo after a training exercise accident. Bored, he starts thinking that the accepted war methods are wrong and hits on a radical plan. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels tha...
Nov 11, 2022•27 min
Q&A on the Peacock series A Friend of the Family with actor Jake Lacy. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Tells 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 "friend."
Nov 11, 2022•30 min
Q&A on the Prime Video series The English with actor & executive producer Emily Blunt and actor Chaske Spencer. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. In the Powder River region of Wyoming, cattle baron and English gentleman Thomas Trafford, despite being the first European to enter the region, is struggling to maintain his empire against the homesteader 'invasion'.
Nov 10, 2022•9 min
Q&A on the Prime Video series The English with writer & director Hugo Blick. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. In the Powder River region of Wyoming, cattle baron and English gentleman Thomas Trafford, despite being the first European to enter the region, is struggling to maintain his empire against the homesteader 'invasion'.
Nov 10, 2022•9 min
Q&A on the audio series Spark Hunter with director & executive producer Trudie Styler and actor & executive producer Mark Rylance. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. When the world’s most advanced AI evolves past the limits of human intelligence, the US government fears she has gone rogue and is determined to take her out. Now, over dinner with her Maker, a final meal will determine if she represents a new hope for the world… or its destruction. With sharpshooters in pos...
Nov 08, 2022•26 min
Q&A on the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself with actor Jay Lycurgo. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world, and his powers.
Nov 08, 2022•28 min
Q&A with Natasha Leggero on her book, The World Deserves My Children. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. A laugh-out-loud funny collection of insightful and razor-sharp essays on motherhood in our post-apocalyptic world from comedian Natasha Leggero. When Natasha Leggero got pregnant at forty-two after embarking on the grueling IVF process, she was over the moon. But once her feelings of bliss dissipated, she couldn’t help but shake the lingering question: Am I doing this right?...
Nov 07, 2022•27 min
Q&A on the NBC series Lopez vs. Lopez with actor & producer Mayan Lopez. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. A working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection, and all the pain and joy in between.
Nov 07, 2022•25 min
