Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and Welsh-Egyptian filmmaker Sally El Hosaini are joining the list of honourees for this year’s TIFF Tribute Awards at next month’s Toronto festival.
Guðnadóttir, known for her scores for films and TV projects including Joker and Chernobyl, will get the Variety Artisan Award. Guðnadóttir composed the score for Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, which will have its international premiere at TIFF on September 13.
El Hosaini, best known as writer-director of 2012 festival award winner My Brother The Devil, will get the TIFF Emerging Talent Award. El Hosaini’s The Swimmers gets its world premiere as TIFF’s opening night gala presentation on September 8.
For its fourth year, the TIFF Tribute Awards will return to an in-person gala fundraiser during the festival on September 11.
TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey commented: “Both Hildur Guðnadóttir and Sally El Hosaini are singular artists who continue to expand the horizons of their disciplines. We’re proud to present TIFF Tribute Awards to Guðnadóttir for her remarkable score for Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, and El Hosaini for directing one of the most urgent, moving films of the year in The Swimmers.”
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