IFA Chicago welcomes the brilliant, Academy Award winning writer / director ALEXANDER PAYNE!

Known for films like Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), The Descendants (2011), Nebraska (2013), Downsizing (2017) and more, Alexander Payne is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director. His writing credits also include Jurassic Park III (2001) and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007). We're so excited to have Alexander Payne join us!

Please send in any questions you’d like to ask Alexander to kaleigh@ifachicago.org, fwe will do our best to pose as many as time permits. 

This is a members only event.