Filmmaker Hanna Hulda Hafþórsdóttir has been awarded the second annual prize, which honors the legacy of Icelandic filmmaker and producer Eva Maria Daniels, who died in 2023. Because the 2025 Daniels prize winner, Hafþórsdóttir will obtain business mentoring and 1.5 million Króna to place in the direction of her subsequent mission.
Hafþórsdóttir’s successful quick, “In Rhythm,” is described as a “poignant coming-of-age movie that follows a younger woman’s journey to reconnect along with her childhood finest pal via their shared ardour for dance, in the end revealing the bittersweet magnificence in letting go and embracing life’s inevitable transitions.”
“In our second 12 months honoring Eva Maria Daniels, it was a vigorous deliberation with many glorious contenders,” stated jury chair and Daniels’ long-time producing associate Riva Marker. “However in the end we had been gained over by Hanna’s quick lm, In Rhythm, which confirmed echoes of early Andrea Arnold in its naturalistic and pressing exploration of girlhood.”
Los Angeles Greek Movie Pageant Units Might 28 Opening Night time and Lifetime Tribute to Director Costa-Gavras
The nineteenth version of the competition might be held throughout 6 days, from Might 27 to June 21. The nonprofit group brings filmmakers from Greece and Cyrpus, in addition to movies about Greece, to Southern California. The Pageant will host the eleventh Discovery Days discussion board, which supplies filmmakers a possibility to “workshop their function movie initiatives.”
The 2025 version of the LAGFF will even current a lifetime tribute to director Costa-Gavras.
“We’re thrilled and honored to current the lifetime achievement Orpheus Honorary award to Costa-Gavras, the legendary icon of world cinema,” stated LAGFF creative and competition director Aristotle Katopodis. “His presence highlights LAGFF’s 19 years showcasing Greek cinema’s impression and aspirations worldwide. Tradition, social points, id, goals, and private tales proceed to tell the cinematic panorama that Greek and Cypriot filmmakers select to discover.”
Costa-Gavras will obtain the 2025 Honorary Orpheus Award on the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on the competition’s opening evening Might 28. The occasion will even function a screening of Costa-Gavras’ 1969 movie “Z.”
Friday, April 11
Gravitas Ventures to Launch ‘The Misplaced Princess’ on Digital and VOD
Gravitas Ventures has acquired romantic motion thriller “The Misplaced Princess” and is about to launch the movie Might 13 on digital and VOD platforms.
The movie is directed by Hicham Hajji and follows American billionaire Alec Touati as he’s transported by way of an ayahuasca journey to Morocco, the place he meets Hanna and learns about “her mom’s tragic story of an organized marriage and a secret affair,” per the official logline.
“We’re thrilled so as to add ‘The Misplaced Princess’ to our numerous slate,” Kevin Scheid, Gravitas Ventures’s gross sales supervisor, stated in an announcement. “The movie combines a global enchantment with thrilling drama, beautiful visuals and passionate storytelling. Hicham Hajji has created a movie that not solely delivers an exhilarating journey but additionally touches on common themes of affection and sacrifice, making it a narrative that may stick with audiences lengthy after the credit roll.”
The movie gained finest cinematography on the Beverly Hills Movie Pageant. Ayoub Lamrani was the cinematographer.
Hajji penned the script with Jean-Daniel Camus and Jonathan McConnell. The forged contains Cillian O’Sullivan, Gary Dourdan, Soraya Azzabi, Eric Roberts and Robert Knepper.
“At its core, ‘The Misplaced Princess’ is in regards to the seek for id—how our previous shapes who we’re, and the way we navigate the complexities of self-discovery,” Hajji stated in an announcement. “It’s a movie that blends journey and emotion, and I’m glad to be partnering with Gravitas Ventures, who share our imaginative and prescient and consider within the movie’s potential to resonate with U.S. audiences.”
Thursday, April 10
Atticus Ross to Obtain BMI Icon Award for His Movie and Tv Scores
Atticus Ross will obtain the BMI Icon Award — which acknowledges his composition work for movie and tv — on the BMI Movie, TV and Visible Media Awards on Might 14.
The awards might be held in Beverly Hills. Mike O’Neill, BMI president and CEO, and Tracy McKnight, BMI vice chairman, artistic, movie, TV and visible media, will host.
Ross, working with Trent Reznor, has composed the scores for Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and “Queer,” David Fincher’s “The Social Community” and “Gone Woman” and Trey Edward Shults’s “Waves,” amongst different movies. The pair additionally scored the HBO sequence “Watchmen.” Ross additionally composed the rating for “Shōgun,” collaborating along with his brother Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba.
“Atticus Ross’ distinctive capability to merge revolutionary sounds with cinematic storytelling has left an indelible mark on the business, and we’re thrilled to acknowledge his extraordinary expertise and achievements with the BMI Icon Award,” McKnight stated in an announcement. “His distinctive contributions proceed to encourage and form the way forward for music in movie and tv.”
Ross has beforehand earned 19 BMI awards. Previous BMI Icon Award winners embody Alexandre Desplat, Ramin Djawadi, Rachel Portman, James Newton Howard and John Williams.
Tuesday, April 8
Diego Luna to Host Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards
Diego Luna is about to host the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on April 29.
The “Andor” actor and government producer will current 14 achievements on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage. Along with reprising his function as Cassian Andor from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” within the upcoming “Andor” Season 2, he acquired a Golden Globe nomination for the restricted sequence “La Máquina” and has appeared in “Y Tu Mamá También,” “Frida,” “If Beale Road May Discuss,” “Narcos: Mexico” and the upcoming “Kiss of the Spider Man” alongside Jennifer Lopez, which not too long ago premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
Along with his performing work, Luna has additionally directed a number of movies, together with “Cesar Chavez” and “Mr. Pig,” and co-founded the Mexican manufacturing firm La Corriente del Golfo.
The 14 achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards, represented by 37 particular person recipients, have demonstrated a file of added worth to the movement image business. They will even be offered with an Academy Award of Advantage as a recognition to people who’ve developed or supported captioning expertise in movie.
Scientific and Engineering Award honorees embody Jayson Dumenigo for the event of the Motion Manufacturing facility Hydrogels aimed toward fireplace stunt security; Thijs Vogels, Fabrice Rousselle, David Adler, Gerhard Röthlin and Mark Meyer, for the creation of Disney’s ML (machine studying) Denoiser, which has been adopted for animation and CGI; and Nir Averbuch, Yair Chuchem and Dan Raviv for Sound Radix’s Auto Align Submit 2 for mixing of a number of transferring microphones throughout postproduction.
In a beforehand launched joint assertion, Academy CEO Invoice Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang stated: “As a part of the Academy’s mission to have a good time artistry and innovation in filmmaking, we’re honored to acknowledge the distinctive contributions of this 12 months’s Scientific and Technical Awards recipients.”
Earlier hosts embody Natasha Lyonne, Margot Robbie, Jason Segel, Patrick Stewart, David Oyelowo, John Cho, Leslie Mann and Nia DaCosta.