Bainbridge-based filmmaker Alan Rudolph will host a Q&A session at the Lynwood Theatre following a 7 p.m. screening of his new film “Ray Meets Helen” on Thursday, May 10.

Starring Academy Award winner Keith Carradine and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sondra Locke, the film relates the story of Ray and Helen who, in bizarre and unrelated events, each happen upon large sums of money which give them the chance to reinvent themselves.

The cast also includes Samantha Mathis, Keith David and Academy Award nominee Jennifer Tilly.

Produced by Etchie Stroh of Moonstone Entertainment, who also produced Rudolph’s Academy Award-nominated feature “Afterglow,” and Steven J. Wolfe of Sneak Preview Entertainment (“500 Days of Summer” and “Relax, It’s Just Sex!”), “Ray Meets Helen” is executive produced by Lesley Ann Warren, Carradine and Locke.

“Ray Meets Helen” bears Rudolph’s signature hallmarks of intertwining characters whose lives will be altered by their meeting and the element of chance. Both Ray (Carradine) and Helen (Locke) are each stalled in midlife, beset by profound material challenges, haunted by failed or missed opportunities in their younger lives.

Ray and Helen each undergo a reversal of fortune, affording them unanticipated opportunities at self reinvention. When their paths eventually cross, each is beguiled by the other’s altered, and by some measures, enhanced, persona. However, the ability of life to strip away these newly adopted, external trappings finds Ray and Helen unexpectedly falling for each other’s true selves as they are gradually revealed.

Rudolph is a staple of the American independent film movement. He has directed 19 features and one feature-length documentary. His films have been presented in major international festivals for 40 years, and are noted for their fluid style, unpredictable humor and glowing performances.

His explorations of paradoxical human complexities are seen in films such as “The Secret Lives of Dentists,” “Afterglow” and “Choose Me.”

He has written or co-written screenplays for 15 of his own films, as well as his first produced screenplay, Robert Altman’s “Buffalo Bill and the Indians,” which won the Golden Bear at the 1976 Berlin Film Festival.

His filmed subjects have ranged from art forgery in 1920s Paris (“The Moderns”) to murderous New Jersey households (“Mortal Thoughts”).