After the death of her husband, Norma Bates buys a motel in the picturesque coastal town of White Pine Bay, giving herself and teenage son Norman a chance to begin anew. Shy Norman is reluctant at first, but with the help of his mother, with whom he shares an intensely close relationship, the boy begins to open up to others and make new friends. Some locals, however, aren't as friendly and welcoming to the Bates, who discover that White Pine Bay isn't as peaceful as it appears, and they are forced to do whatever it takes to survive.

A Q-and-A session will follow the screening.

From the creator of True Blood, Banshee features Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania. There, he continues his criminal activities even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.

A Q-and-A session will follow the screening.

Panelists:

Adam Targum
Executive producer, writer

Antony Starr
Actor

Based on a popular Scandinavian book series by renowned criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson, this crime drama centers on Everett Backstrom, a brilliant but troubled detective who heads up the Special Crimes Unit in Portland, Oregon. As Backstrom and his team handle the city's most sensitive cases, the detective tries — and fails — to modify his self-destructive tendencies. Three-time Emmy Award nominee Rainn Wilson plays the titular role in this series created by executive producer Hart Hanson.

“Fortitude” is like nowhere else on Earth: a frontier boomtown in the wild and savage landscape of the Arctic Circle. Sheriff Dan Anderssen (Richard Dormer) leads a world-class search and rescue team but now finds himself investigating the shocking murder of a prominent member of the community. What’s more, he is forced to work alongside DCI Eugene Morton (Stanley Tucci), a murder detective sent from the mainland. As they search for the killer, each cop finds good reason to suspect and mistrust the other.

The FBI calls on Ryan Hardy, a former agent with physical and emotional scars, when Joe Carroll, a notorious serial killer Hardy apprehended years earlier, escapes from death row. Joe, a former professor and novelist fixated on Edgar Allan Poe, mutilated and killed 14 women before he was imprisoned. Ryan and the FBI learn that while he was incarcerated, Joe spent his time gathering a collection of cult-like followers.

In the tradition of “Roots” and based on Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel “Someone Knows My Name,” “The Book of Negroes” is a six-part miniseries depicting the extraordinary life journey of Aminata Diallo (Aunjanue Ellis) — an indomitable African woman who cuts a swath through a world that is predisposed to underestimate her.

As the wife of an ailing and wealthy town selectman, Mary Sibley holds the distinction of being the most powerful sorceress in Salem, Massachusetts. Ruthless yet vulnerable and with secrets to hide, Mary leans on her ageless accomplice Tituba to help advance her agenda. When Mary’s long-ago love interest, Salem native John Alden, returns from war to find the town paralyzed by fear of a witchhunt, her plans take an unexpected turn.

Annalise Keating, played by Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning actress Viola Davis, is a brilliant, charismatic and seductive professor of defense law, who teaches a class titled How to Get Away With Murder. Unexpectedly, she and her students end up having to apply practical knowledge from the course when they become entangled in a murder plot that not only shakes the entire university to its core but also changes the course of each of their lives.

Discussion with Rising Star cast members to follow screening.

In this romantic-comedy series, creator and star Mindy Kaling plays a young OB-GYN doctor who laughingly struggles to balance her personal and professional life surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small office.

A discussion with Mindy Kaling and writers for "The Mindy Project" will follow the screening.

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PANELIST:

Mindy Kaling

Actor, writer


Ike Barinholtz

Actor, writer
 


FOX's new drama "Empire" chronicles the family life and business dealings of drug dealer-turned-hip-hop mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard). As the CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lyon has always ruled unchallenged, but when a medical diagnosis predicts he will be incapacitated in three years, the sharks begin to circle. Lyon must choose between his three sons and ex-wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) as they battle for the throne.

A discussion with actor Terrence Howard and executive producer, writer and director Lee Daniels will follow the screening.