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AWARDS FEATURES

Gregg Schwenk

“We’re the top luxury lifestyle film festival in the US,” says Newport Beach’s Gregg Schwenk

The festival’s location is a draw for distributors and sales agents looking for awards contenders and world premieres on their doorstep.

Yesterday The Eye Didn't Sleep

Athens film festival awards top prize to Rakan Mayasi’s ’Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep”

Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals For A Revolution won the best documentary category.

Asian Academy Creative Awards

How the Asian Academy Creative Awards is evolving with new forms of storytelling

The ninth edition of the awards will introduce a category for microdramas.

Luca Guadagnino (cropped) / Sam Altman (cropped)

Buyers speculate on why Amazon really dropped Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’

CAA Media Finance shopped Artificial around town after Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios reportedly decided the feature was too dark and would be “better served” elsewhere.

'Bait'

How Riz Ahmed’s diary of “strange, absurd situations” inspired drama ‘Bait’

Created by its star Riz Ahmed, Bait follows a struggling actor vying for the role of James Bond. “I want to make space for stories told in a way they haven’t been told before.”

AWARDS COUNTDOWN: INTERVIEWS

Hildur Guðnadóttir

“I made a deal with a butcher”: Hildur Gudnadottir on creating a bone orchestra for the ‘28 Years Later’ sequel

The Icelandic composer is guest of honour at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards.

Jonny Greenwood

“It’s addictive working with Paul Thomas Anderson”: Jonny Greenwood on their long collaboration and scoring ‘One Battle After Another’

The Radiohead founding member has collaborated with Anderson on six films so far, and says he has started working on the seventh.