Future of Everything Festival Drive In

The Wall Street Journal’s Future Of Everything Festival brings together the most revolutionary minds to explore the ideas forming what comes next. Over three days of unscripted interviews and interactive workshops, attendees with an eye on emerging trends will hear from and collaborate with entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, scientists and thinkers for a first look at the seismic shifts occurring in the way we live, work and play.

To accompany this year’s online festival, the Wall Street Journal hosted its first US based live event since the pandemic began by bringing Hollywood to Brooklyn for a special motion-picture moment. Manhattan’s breathtaking skyline was the backdrop for this exclusive screening under the stars of “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a biographical drama depicting the life and death of Fred Hampton, former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party.

Before the film, guests watched a streamed conversation with its screenwriters, Keith and Kenny Lucas, and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. about storytelling’s role in social justice and how filmmaking is becoming a tool for empowerment beyond the movie industry.

May 2021
Skylight Drive In | New York, NY
Senior Producer