“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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Mindy Kaling

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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.

Created by and starring Lena Dunham, “Girls” is an award-winning comedy following the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their mid-20s living in New York City. In addition to Dunham, who stars as Hannah, the cast includes Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna, Alex Karpovsky as Ray, Adam Driver as Adam, Andrew Rannells as Elijah and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Desi. 

The aTVfest panel to follow the screening will celebrate the guys from “Girls.” 

"American Crime" is an upcoming anthology-format crime drama that follows a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial. Created by writer John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave") and starring Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton, the series debuts Thursday, March 5.

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Actor Timothy Hutton will receive the Icon Award prior to the screening.

An upcoming series from writer Michael J. Weithorn ("The King of Queens") and director Jake Kasdan ("New Girl"), "Weird Loners" is a comedy about four single 30-something underdogs who are unexpectedly thrust into one another's lives in a Queens, New York, townhouse. The series stars Becki Newton ("Ugly Betty"), Zachary Knighton ("Happy Endings"), Nate Torrence ("Hello Ladies") and newcomer Meera Rohit Kumbhani.

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