This week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the names of those invited to join the organisation in 2020, including SDI’s executive producer Sonja Henrici and academic collaborator Emma Davie.
A total of 819 artists and executives have been invited to join the organisation, each one having distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. The 2020 class is 45% women, 36% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 49% international from 68 countries.
The list also includes women and men who have collaborated with us in the past:
- Violeta Ayala – “Cocaine Prison,” “The Bolivian Case”
- Julia Bacha – “Naila and the Uprising,” “Budrus”
- Almudena Carracedo – “The Silence of Others,” “Made in L.A.”
- Paola Castillo – “Beyond My Grandfather Allende,” “Genoveva”
- Pernille Rose Grønkjær – “Hunting for Hedonia,” “The Monastery”
- Amelia Hapsari – “Rising in Silence,” “Fight like Ahok”
- Rachel Leah Jones – “Advocate,” “Gypsy Davy”
- Mariana Oliva – “The Edge of Democracy,” “Piripkura”
- Elhum Shakerifar – “Of Love & Law,” “Even When I Fall”
- Mila Turajlic – “The Other Side of Everything,” “Cinema Komunisto”
- Sandi DuBowski – “A Jihad for Love,” “Trembling before G-d”
- Nicolas Philibert – “To Be and to Have,” “In the Land of the Deaf”
Congratulations to everyone from all of us at SDI!
V.V.MAHESHWAR RAO says
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