Vashon Film Institute has actually set the date for the 3rd yearly Vashon Island Film Festivalwhich is slated to occur Aug. 8-11. The statement features the launch of 2 brand-new departments of the Vashon Film Institute and a brand-new contribution arm, which accepts limited funds to be utilized exclusively to money enhancements at the Vashon Theatre.
VFI’s brand-new departments are the Quartermaster Lab, a cumulative of filmmaking programs, and VFIpresents, its sales, circulation and release department, which will likewise concentrate on arranging neighborhood occasions outside VIFF.
“The essential objective in establishing VFI was to support independent filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest,” stated Mark Mathias Sayre, creator of Vashon Film Institute. “To that end, VIFF has actually currently brought engaging indie functions and documentaries to regional audiences and will continue to do so. That’s just part of the video game strategy: We’re similarly dedicated to stimulating the production of brand-new movies as much as we are delighted to commemorate them. In this sense, the [Quartermaster Lab] will concentrate on establishing brand-new jobs that VFIpresents can bring to life. Their commonness will be the PNW, whether that implies the movies are set or produced here, or the filmmakers call it home.”
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter Awarded the Inaugural Eva Maria Daniels Award for Vital Filmmaking at the Stockfish Film & & Industry Festival
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The Stockfish Film & & Industry Festival has actually granted Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter the inaugural Eva Maria Daniels Award for Vital Filmmaking for her narrative brief movie “Fár.” The reward, provided at the 25th yearly Edda Awards, featured 1.5 million Icelandic Króna for Schlüter to put towards her next task.
“A respected jury of Eva Maria Daniels peers and associates were consentaneous in our choice to award the inaugural reward in Eva’s honor to Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter for her impressive brief movie ‘Fár’,” stated jury chair Riva Marker. “Gunnur, and her manufacturers, Sara Nassim and Rúnar Ingi, crafted a vibrant brief that brims with vision, self-confidence and environment, and we are enjoyed introduce the EDP Vital Award with them.”
The award honors the tradition of Icelandic filmmaker and manufacturer Eva Maria Daniels, who passed away in June 2023. “Fár” was picked from a swimming pool of 20 movies.
Spirit Awards Set February Date
Movie Independent has actually set the date of Saturday, Feb. 22 for the 40th Spirit Awards. The awards come a couple of weeks ahead of the March 2 Oscars date.
“For 40 years, the Spirit Awards have actually been the beacon for strong and initial independent storytelling,” stated Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As we celebrate this considerable turning point, we eagerly anticipate commemorating with the independent imaginative neighborhood on February 22nd.”
The Spirit Awards candidate breakfast will happen on Jan. 4.
Seattle Film Festival Sets Lineup, Opening With ‘Thelma’
The Seattle International Film Festival has actually exposed its lineup for the 50th edition, which occurs May 9– 19 at locations throughout Seattle and followed by a week of choose virtual screenings on the SIFF Channel May 20– 27. The program consists of 261 movies representing 84 nations and areas, consisting of 92 functions, 47 documentaries, 5 archival functions, 2 unique homages, 2 secret screenings and 115 brief movies.
The celebration will open with Josh Margolin’s action funny “Thelma” from Magnolia Pictures, which will evaluate at the Paramount Theatre throughout SIFF’s opening night on May 9. Other highlights consist of “Dìdi” (“弟弟”), a directorial launching from Oscar candidate Sean Wang; Neon’s “Babes” composed by and starring Ilana Glazer and directed by very first time director Pamela Adlon; IFC’s “Ghostlight” and Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft”. SIFF will close with Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” from A24, which will evaluate on May 18 at SIFF Cinema Downtown. Tickets and schedules can be discovered on the celebration’s site
Miky Lee to Deliver USC School of Cinematic Arts 2024 Commencement Address
Miky Lee, executive manufacturer of “Parasite” and “Past Lives,” will provide the USC School of Cinematic Arts 2024 Commencement address, revealed Elizabeth M. Daley, dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA). Director, author and SCA alumnus James Gray (“The Immigrant,” “Armageddon Time”) will likewise get the Mary Pickford Alumni Award at the in-person graduation event hung on Friday, May 10, at the Shrine Auditorium.
“Miky Lee is a real leader and ambassador of collective worldwide filmmaking, and we are so pleased to have her share her insight and proficiency with our finishing trainees,” Daley stated. “Miky works throughout borders, cultures and categories, and champs the type of jobs our trainees desire producing. We are so happy she accepted be this year’s graduation speaker.”
As start speaker, Lee signs up with a current list of home entertainment figures consisting of Brian Grazier and Ron Howard, Matt Reeves, Ryan Coogler, Jon M. Chu, Paul Feig, Jim Gianopulos, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Donna Langley, Barry Meyer, Ron Meyer, Sumner Redstone, Jay Roach, Stacey Sher and Laura Ziskin.
GKIDS Acquires North American Distribution Rights to Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence”
GKIDS, the supplier of the Studio Ghibli movies, has actually gotten theatrical circulation rights for North America to Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence.” In event of the movie’s 20th anniversary, GKIDS will launch a 4K remediation of “Ghost In The Shell 2” in theaters nationwide this summertime.
“We’re honored to be dealing with the group at Production I.G in bringing this visionary movie, from a real auteur, to theatrical audiences in North America,” stated Rodney Uhler, GKIDS Director of Acquisitions and Development. “Mamoru Oshii was and stays, in numerous methods, a filmmaker ahead of his time so we’re enjoyed have the ability to share his movie, with a stunning, 4K remaster, with brand-new and old audiences alike.”
The offer was worked out in between Uhler of GKIDS and Francesco Prandoni of Production I.G.
Droop Awards 2025 Announces Key Dates, Live Stream on Netflix
The Screen Actor Guild Awards revealed that its 31st yearly telecast will be streamed live on Netflix on Feb. 23, 2025 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. In 2015’s SAG Awards were likewise streamed live on the platform, marking the award program’s live launching to the banner.
The SAG Awards has actually typically operated on cable television networks, Netflix struck an offer to telecast the program in 2022, when the award program worked on the banner’s YouTube page. The SAG Awards formerly had a longstanding handle TBS/TNT that ended the exact same year.
The SAG Awards likewise revealed eligibility dates and a calendar for the next awards season.
Submissions for elections will open on Aug. 29 and close on Nov. 1. and need to be sent out in at sagawards.org/submissionsQualified efficiencies should air or premiere in between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024 to be thought about for the 2025 award.
Stars can send their own efficiencies, or permit to manufacturers, studios/networks, representatives, supervisors or press agents to do so.
Elections will be revealed Jan. 8, 2025. Secret dates are as follows:
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
Submissions Open at sagawards.org/submissions
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Submissions Close at 5 p.m. PT
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024
Elections Voting Opens
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 2025
Elections Voting Closes at 5 p.m. PT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025
Elections Announced
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2025
Last Voting Opens
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Last Voting Closes at 12 p.m. PT
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025
31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Live on Netflix
Cinespia Reveals Lineup for Pride Month Hollywood Forever Cemetery Screenings
Cinespia has actually exposed the lineup for its Hollywood Forever Cemetery Pride Month movie series. The screening lineup consists of “Se7en” on May 26, “Legally Blonde” on June 1, “Dazed and Confused” on June 8, “Across The Universe” on June 15, “D.E.B.S.” on June 22 and the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford timeless “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” on June 29 in collaboration with LA Pride.
“We’re so fired up to be back at the Cemetery with some amazing, Cinespia fan-favorite movies to start the summer season,” stated John Wyatt, creator of Cinespia. “As June introduce a dynamic event of love and variety, we’re enjoyed continue our yearly custom of partnering with LA Pride.”
To learn more or to buy tickets, see www.cinespia.org
Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart to lead Cannes’ Caméra d’Or Jury
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will include French star Emmanuelle Béart and director and songwriter Baloji heading the Caméra d’Or Jury.
The Caméra d’Or award exists to the very best very first function movie. The objective of the award is to expose and highlight the value of a director’s very first film, whose qualities suggest that they ought to carry out another task. The reward is granted throughout the celebration’s closing event by the jury.
“Being a self-taught filmmaker and a filmmaker from the Congolese diaspora,” confides Baloji, “it’s a terrific honour to be able to witness the vigor of novice directors, to find their strong singularities and their inaugural work, which will have an enduring effect on the identity of their filmography.” Baloji, who recieved the New Voice Prize at Un Certain Regard in 2015 for his launching function “Omen,” stated in a declaration.
Béart included her declaration: “A very first movie has to do with the impossibility of doing anything aside from diving into the depths of one’s being to learn what we can’t keep peaceful about. A deeply moving and extremely complimentary birth: no one is waiting for you. We will honor our responsibility with marvel and regard.”
Béart and Baloji will be assisted on the jury by agents of the market, consisting of press, market and filmmakers associations. In 2015’s Caméra d’Or was granted to Pham Thien An for “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” by the Jury commanded by French star Anaïs Demoustier.
Greta Gerwig, author and director of “Barbie,” will be the celebration Jury president this year. The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will happen May 14-25.
Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman and More Will Honor Nicole Kidman at AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute
Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts and Reese Witherspoon will be amongst the speakers at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute in honor of Nicole Kidman at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on April 27.
Streep who was the recipient of the 32nd AFI Life Achievement Award, will provide the award to Kidman, who is the very first Australian star to get the kudo. Other previous receivers consist of John Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, George Lucas and more.
The homage unique, “The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman,” will premiere on TNT June 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT and on Turner Classic Movies June 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. This marks the ninth year the AFI Life Achievement Award special will air on TNT.
DGA Announces Date for 2025 Awards Ceremony
The 77th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards will occur on Feb. 8, 2025 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. More info, consisting of the ballot schedule and crucial due dates, will be revealed later on in the year.
Cadillac will as soon as again function as the main automobile sponsor for next year’s event. Christopher Nolan was bestowed the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Film Award for his movie Oppenheimer at this year’s event, which was likewise held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.