The Stockfish Film & & Sector Festival in Reykjavík, Iceland, has actually developed an award for brief movies to recognize the heritage of late neighborhood filmmaker Eva Maria Daniels, it was revealed Thursday.
Daniels, that generated such indie dramatization as What Maisie Knew, Hold the Dark and Joe Bell, passed away in June after a fight with cancer cells. She was simply 43.
With the assistance of Daniels’ partner, Moritz Diller, and child, Henry, one standout manufacturer or supervisor in the festival’s Shortfish (Sprettfiskur) competitors will certainly obtain the inaugural Eva Maria Daniels Award for Crucial Filmmaking. The victor will certainly obtain 1.5 million Icelandic króna (regarding $11,000) for their following task.
The 10th yearly festival occurs April 4-14. Twenty brief movies will certainly get involved in the competitors in the classifications of finest brief story, finest brief docudrama, finest video and finest brief speculative. The court will certainly be chaired by Daniels’ long time creating companion, Riva Pen.
“Eva’s approach to producing was to listen and support undeniable talent,” Pen claimed in a declaration.“We will never know all the beautiful stories she would bring to audiences, but we’re honored to create an inaugural award endowed to storytellers that we believe Eva would have championed.”
The Reykjavík-born Daniels likewise exec generated Time Out of Mind (2014) and The Supper (2017 ), both guided and co-written by Oren Moverman and starring Richard Gere, and the Sydney Sweeney-starring Truth, which evaluated at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.
![It was all going well until… | Squid Game 2 | Netflix [ENG SUB]](https://thehollywoodpremiere.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/It-was-all-going-well-until-Squid-Game-2-120x86.jpg "It was all going well until… | Squid Game 2 | Netflix [ENG SUB]")
