Panels

 

JITC Hollywood Bureau both hosts and speaks on industry panels, including official Sundance panels, Variety conferences, and more!

• 2026 Sundance Film Festival: Rethinking Jewish Representation Amid Rising Antisemitism: Leveraging Insights From Our Groundbreaking USC “Jews on Screen” Study to Advance Narrative Change

 

• “How Hollywood Can Flip the Script Since October 7:” featuring Oscar-nominated producer Lawrence Bender (Red Alert), screenwriter Alison Peck (You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), filmmaker Sal Litvak (Guns and Moses), and JITC founder and executive director Allison Josephs, moderated by Marcus J. Freed

 

• “The State of Jewish Representation in TV:”  featuring Emmy-Winning Producer and former  president of The Jim Henson Company, Halle Stanford,  Jeremy Powell, writer on NBC’s Found, and Cindy Kaplan, Director of JITC Hollywood Bureau

 

• 2024 Sundance Film Festival: Sects, Lies and Videotape: Debunking deadly tropes about Jews and Israel in TV, film and media

 

• Variety’s Antisemitism and Hollywood Summit 

 

• 2023 Sundance Film Festival: #MeJew: Antisemitism, Authentic Representation, and Jewish Identity in Hollywood