Posted by Larry Gleeson
ZOE SALDAÑA TO BE HONORED WITH
AMERICAN RIVIERA AWARD
AT 40TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2025
(October 22, 2024] SANTA BARBARA, CA – Zoe Saldaña shall be honored with the American Riviera Award on the fortieth annual Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition. Saldaña will obtain the award on Friday, February 7, 2025 at an in-person dialog about her profession, main as much as her acclaimed efficiency this 12 months as Rita Moro Castro in Netflix’s EMILIA PÉREZ. Zoe Saldaña’s efficiency in EMILIA PÉREZ is certainly one of her most transformative roles so far, and provides one other distinctive side to her already spectacular profession.
“Zoe Saldaña has a unbelievable filmography value celebrating any 12 months, however her commanding and stouthearted efficiency in EMILIA PÉREZ makes our tribute to her crucial” remarked SBIFF’s Govt Director Roger Durling.
Zoe Saldaña has steadily earned a popularity as probably the most versatile and revered powerhouses within the business with a exceptional profession spanning greater than 20 years as an actor and producer. As the one actor in historical past to have starred in 4 movies which have grossed over 2 billion {dollars} and the highest three highest grossing movies of all time, AVATAR, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and Marvel Studios’ AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Saldaña’s passionate dedication to searching for compelling, indelible roles has remained fixed.
Most not too long ago, Saldaña lead and govt produced the impartial movie THE ABSENCE OF EDEN, directed by Marco Perego in his function movie debut, and at the moment stars in Taylor Sheridan’s undercover CIA drama collection “Lioness” for Paramount+, which she additionally govt produces together with her manufacturing firm Cinestar Footage. Saldaña can subsequent be seen starring within the Spanish-language musical crime comedy from Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ, which premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition and took residence the Jury Prize. Saldaña acquired the competition’s prestigious Finest Actress Award alongside the feminine ensemble and Netflix will launch the movie in theaters this Fall.
From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes EMILIA PÉREZ, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. By way of liberating track and dance and daring visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of 4 exceptional girls in Mexico, every pursuing their very own happiness. The fearsome cartel chief Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer caught in a dead-end job, to assist faux her dying in order that Emilia can lastly stay authentically as her true self. Written and directed by Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), the double Cannes-winning movie additionally stars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Édgar Ramírez.
The American Riviera Award was established to acknowledge actors who’ve made a major contribution to American Cinema. Earlier recipients embrace Mark Ruffalo, Brendan Fraser, Kristen Stewart, Delroy Lindo, Renée Zellweger, Viggo Mortenson, Sam Rockwell, Jeff Bridges, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Robert Redford, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock, Mickey Rourke, Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon and Diane Lane.
The fortieth Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition will happen LIVE February 4 – February 15, 2025. Official occasions together with screenings, filmmaker Q&As, business panels, and celeb tributes, shall be held all through the town, together with on the historic Arlington Theatre. Passes for the 2025 Competition are on sale now at sbiff.org.
Final 12 months, the competition had a program of 200+ movies from over 48 nations with honorary awards feted on Robert Downey Jr., Bradley Cooper, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Andrew Scott, Martin Scorsese, Justine Triet, Billie Eilish, and Ludwig Göransson.
A-list and business visitors will as soon as once more ascend to Santa Barbara, making it a must-stop location on the awards circuit, and delivering a file variety of movies with many World and U.S. premieres. The movie lineup and schedule shall be introduced January 2025.
In regards to the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition
The Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition (SBIFF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and academic group devoted to discovering and showcasing one of the best in impartial and worldwide cinema. Over the previous 39 years, SBIFF has change into one of many prime 10 movie festivals in the US – attracting 100,000 attendees and providing 11 days of 200+ movies, tributes and symposiums, fulfilling their mission to interact, enrich, and encourage the Santa Barbara group by means of movie.
SBIFF continues its dedication to schooling and the group all through many free instructional applications and occasions. SBIFF’s applications help over 18,000 children, college students and households in our area people by introducing movie as an artwork type to younger kids with applications like AppleBox and Mike’s FieldTrip to the Motion pictures; educating movie evaluation to highschool and faculty college students with applications like Rosebud and the Movie Research Program; and educating the craft of screenwriting and filmmaking with Movie Camp and 10-10-10 Mentorship applications. Most significantly SBIFF’s applications are all the time directed in direction of the under-represented and under-served communities inside Santa Barbara County.
In 2016, SBIFF acquired the historic and beloved Riviera Theatre. After a capital marketing campaign and renovation, the theatre is now SBIFF’s state-of-the-art, year-round residence, displaying new worldwide and impartial movies day by day. In 2019, SBIFF opened its personal Schooling Middle in downtown Santa Barbara on State Road to function a house for its many instructional applications and a spot for creativity and studying.
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