Filmmaker Roberto Minervini joins Sandra Hebron, Head of Screen Arts at the National Film & Television School (NFTS), for an in-depth conversation about his cinema, which often takes us to the backyards of the American Dream, with the support of NFTS and the Italian Cultural Institute London. Minervini has often worked collaboratively and intimately with the American communities that are the subjects of his films – and here, he’ll be discussing his relationships with his protagonists, and how his ideas about repositioning a filmmaker’s intentions from authentically representing the community to entering a more dialogical mode of storytelling unfolds in practice. He’ll also be discussing how his cinema often looks beyond the frame, calling for debates on the causes of unrest and on the social conditions that may lead to politically inept governments and deep civic inequalities.