By Any Means Necessary
Award-winning producer Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games) joins Joana Vicente and Jason Kliot for a conversation on bringing impossible films to life, safeguarding directors' creative vision, and shaping the future of cinema.
Behind every great film there is a producer who has willed the film into being and protected the director's vision from an idea to the screen. Over the past four decades, Jon Kilik, Joana Vicente, and Jason Kliot have shaped independent cinema, embracing emerging technologies to produce award-winning films by some of the most distinctive voices in the industry, from Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, and Jim Jarmusch to Julian Schnabel, Brian de Palma, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
About the speaker
Jon Kilik is an American producer known for long collaborations with Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X), Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Biutiful) and Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Paterson). He also produced Dead Man Walking and The Hunger Games franchise.
About the moderators
Joana Vicente is co-founder and CEO of Open Cities. An award-winning producer and executive, she has served as CEO of the Sundance Institute, Executive Director and Co-Head of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Executive Director of Gotham (formerly IFP) and the Made in NY Media Center.
Jason Kliot is co-founder, president and chief creative officer of Open Cities. An Academy Award-nominated producer of more than 40 features and documentaries, he has worked with directors including Jim Jarmusch, Brian De Palma, Nadine Labaki and Steven Soderbergh, and his films have won two Sundance Grand Jury Prizes and the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice.
Part of the Open Cities Accelerator Residency in Cascais
Free admission, subject to prior registration
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours
About Open Cities
Open Cities is an international film accelerator and production company developing a new model for ambitious independent filmmaking.
Learn more at www.open-cities.com