Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay and former Icelandic Movie Heart (IFC) chief Laufey Guðjónsdóttir acquired honors from the tenth anniversary version of Reykjavik’s Stockfish Movie & Trade Competition (April 4 – 14, 2024). The awards, offered throughout a reception on April eleventh, rejoice excellent contributions to the movie trade each internationally and domestically.
Recognized for its intimate environment and ease of networking, the non-profit Stockfish is overseen by the six skilled associations of filmmakers in Iceland, members of which comprise the pageant board. The pageant affords screenings of home and worldwide options together with the favored Shortfish, a juried competitors for Icelandic shorts in a wide range of classes. The pageant honors are a part of an trade program that features talks and panels in addition to Icelandic works-in-progress.
Citing honoree Ramsay’s distinctive artistry, Stockfish’s creative director Hrönn Kristinsdottír praised the director-screenwriter for difficult conventions and pushing boundaries in an trade dominated by male voices. Ramsay, whose movies “Ratcatcher,” “Morvern Callar” and “We Want To Discuss About Kevin” are screening as a part of mini-retrospective, evoked cheers and laughter from the group as she remarked, “Iceland is quite a bit like Scotland, solely extra magical.”
In presenting the award to Guðjónsdóttir, actress Þórunn Lárusdóttir famous that in Guðjónsdóttir’s 20 years on the helm of the IFC the Icelandic movie trade multiplied and have become a major a part of the financial system in addition to a priceless cultural asset. She credited Guðjónsdóttir for shaping the funding framework that catalyzed the creation of Icelandic tales capable of communicate to the world. In the meantime, Guðjónsdóttir humbly paid tribute to the artists who made the movies. She additionally emphasised the significance to filmmakers of continued authorities assist, worldwide collaborations and festivals.
Earlier than the awards presentation, Ramsay instructed Selection that she has three scripts prepared. More likely to shoot first is “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, an adaptation of a novel by Argentine author Ariana Harwicz a couple of lady residing in isolation in rural France who loses her thoughts amid marriage and motherhood.
There’s additionally the provisionally-titled “Darkish Slides,” a drama to star Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara from an authentic script she wrote. Though some shops report this mission as being in publish, Ramsay says capturing has not began.
“Stone Mattress,” an adaptation of a brief story by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, penned together with her “You Have been By no means Actually Right here” cinematographer Tom Townend, is more likely to be a extra complicated manufacturing since it’s set on a cruise ship within the Arctic. Final 12 months, Julianne Moore, Sandra Oh and Kyle Chandler had been reported to board the mission.
Whereas she waits for her subsequent mission to shoot, Ramsay is co-writing one other mission with Townend known as “Hierarchies.” She can be writing some music with guitarist George Vjestica, a Nick Cave and the Dangerous Seeds band member, that Jennifer Lawrence might file.
Ramsay will conduct an open discuss on the pageant together with her longtime editor and good friend Lucia Zuchetti on April twelfth. Requested what recommendation she may give native filmmakers, she says she’s going to suggest the e book that at the moment offers her inspiration: The Artistic Act: A Manner of Being by Rick Rubin.
A shared curiosity within the aforementioned e book has already led her to a different artistic, Emmy-winning American composer Dustin O’Halloran, whom she met in Iceland and hopes to collaborate with sooner or later.
