Panelists

Jimmy
“MrBeast” Donaldson

Creator/Host/EP

Michael H. Miller

EP

“It has to be bigger. We have to make it better. We have to deal with all of the financial implications, safety implications, crew implications, everything that goes around that. And it’s a challenge, but we’re all here. We’re all up for it.”

Panelists

Colin Hanks

Director/ Producer

Chris Candy

EP

Jennifer Candy-Sullivan

EP

“I think it also had to do with the evolution of documentaries … and it felt like now was the time to tell his story the way that we had envisioned.”

Panelists

Ally Pankiw

Director

Cassidy Hartmann

EP

“I think anytime a power-system structure is proven wrong, it’s an important thing to document.”

Panelists

Octavia Spencer

Narrator/EP

Matt Robins

EP

“Sadly, there is a series that we’ve created called Lost Women, and sadly there are so many voices that need to be restored. And we are happy to do the job.”

Panelist

Rebecca Miller

Director

“He particularly wanted to kind of open himself in a new way for this. He would often say ‘Oh, I want to say this in a new way.’ He wanted to meet me really right where I was.”

Panelist

Keith Scholey

Director

“[The practice of bottom trawling] is as common as plowing a field… and yet people have never seen images of it before. And so, I think it was a real revelation in the film that this is what industrial fishing really looks like.”

Panelist

Stanley Tucci

Host/EP

“There’s no point in me rehashing what everybody knows, everybody’s seen a thousand times. There’s no significance to that. We want to be able to dig a little bit deeper into the culture, into the culinary culture, but also the culture of the city itself, or the place itself, or the people themselves.”

Panelists

Kelsey Trainor

EP

Jeff Luini

EP

Harshal Dave

EP

Cori Close

UCLA Women’s Head Basketball Coach

“I think what this documentary allows us to do is to show people that you can be courageously vulnerable. You can care about people’s hearts and you can compete to master your craft.”

Panelists

Brittany Broski

Creator/ Producer/Host (Royal Court)

Michelle Khare

Creator/ Producer/Host (Challenge Accepted)

Cleo
Abram

Creator/ Producer/Host (Huge* If True)

Julian Shapiro-Barnum

Creator/ Producer/Host (Celebrity Substitute)

Kareem Rahma

Creator/ Producer/Host (SubwayTakes)

Sean Evans

Creator/ Producer/Host (Hot Ones)

“…Now I’m making all the things I’ve ever wanted to make, and YouTube has allowed me to do that without needing permission from gatekeepers or a studio.”