“I want to thank everyone who was willing to look stupid and put even just a sliver of themselves on the line to legitimize all these new filmmakers here tonight,” Russell said at the awards ceremony on Sunday.
The show is not taking place in Santa Monica for the first time since 1994.
“It may feel impossible to see the light right now, but I’m deeply grateful to all of you for helping us understand who we are in the midst of chaos,” the former ‘SNL’ star said.
The writer-director-star made her feature debut with the film.
Markus Schleinzer’s fine-grained portrait depicts a fictionalized composite character who passes herself off as a hardy male farmer, drawn from hundreds of comparable cases throughout history.
The show recognizing the best in independent film and TV from the past year will stream live on YouTube on Sunday, Feb. 15.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s new movie is tipped to win the Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend in North America, but Sony Animation and Stephen Curry’s ‘GOAT’ is gaining ground far too quickly for comfort.
The veteran Indonesian filmmaker returns to the Berlin International Film Festival with a socially conscious horror flick set in a wig factory.
Sam Pollard’s documentary on Archbishop Desmond Tutu premieres in Berlin on Monday.
Co-founder Wieland Speck shares insight into the past and future of the award whose winners have included Pedro Almodóvar, Todd Haynes, Tilda Swinton, Derek Jarman, Céline Sciamma, Christine Vachon, Gus Van Sant, John Hurt, and Sophie Hyde.
