The Chair's Workshop is a weekly event for the Graduate Film community, giving students the chance to meet and talk with established directors, writers, actors, producers, cinematographers and others in the film industry in a masterclass format. It also provides students and recent alumni with a forum to screen their work or give table readings of feature scripts in development.
Recent guests have included:
- Stephen Daldry (writer/director)
- Amy Dotson (IFP labs)
- George Romero (writer/director)
- Robert Benton (writer/director)
- Arun Chaudhary (White House Videographer)
- Henry Selick (writer/director)
- Rob Epstein (writer/director)
- Kasi Lemmons (writer/director)
- Agnes Godard (cinematographer)
- Janusz Kaminski (cinematographer)
- Darren Aronofsky (writer/director)
- Cary Fukunaga (writer/director and recent student)
- Jorgen Leth (writer/director)
- Katie Jacobs (producer/director)
- Leonard Retel Helmrich (documentary director)
- Steven Soderbergh (writer/director/cinematographer
- Paula Wagner (producer)
- Tony Gilroy (writer)
- Alison Maclean (writer/director)
- Mark Heyman (writer)
- Barry Levinson (writer/director/producer)
- David Mamet (writer/director)
- Stephen Gaghan (writer/director)
- Ang Lee (director)
- Robert Elswit (cinematographer)
- Adherrahmane Sissako (writer/director)
- Werner Herzog (writer/director)
- Melvin van Peebles (writer/director and actor)
- Declan Quinn (cinematographer)
- George Butler (director)
- Josh Marston (writer/director)
- Paul Haggis (writer/director)
- John Sayles (writer/director)
- Jodie Foster (actor and director)
- Jacques Audiard (writer/director)
- Gaspar Noe (writer/director)
- Susan Seidelman (director)
- Laurent Cantet (writer/director)
- Bruno Dumont (writer/director)
- Debra Granik (writer/director)
- Frank Langella (actor)
