Premiering January 22 - The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) from director Mona Fastvold. Screenings: gatewayfilmcenter.org A visionary drama that reimagines the life of the Shaker movement’s founder, exploring faith, persecution, and the radical cost of spiritual leadership. | Gateway Film Center

The Testament of Ann Lee 🛶⛪️ From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional S

Guillermo del Toro, Jon M. Chu, Benny Safdie, Nia DaCosta, Rian Johnson and Mona Fastvold talk the fraught role of AI in filmmaking, breathing new life into classic texts, and walking a tightrope in Hollywood franchises on The Envelope Oscar Directors Roundtable. Watch The Envelope Oscar Directors Roundtable, hosted by The Times’ Mark Olsen, on Dec. 19 at 9 a.m. PST on the L.A. Times' YouTube and on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. PST on Spectrum. #Frankenstein #WickedForGood #The SmashingMachine #Hedda #Wake