Sentimental Value sweeps up at European Film Awards

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Joachim Trier’s drama about an ageing film-maker and his estranged actor-daughter wins top five awards Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value swept aside its competition at the European Film Awards on Saturday night, seizing all five top prizes at a ceremony in Berlin. Sentimental Value , which won the Grand Prix at Cannes last year, went home with best film, best director, best screenwriter, best actor for Stellan Skarsgård and best actress for Renate Reinsve, as well as best composer. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/EY6HtqU via IFTTT
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The Hollywood crisis #MeToo missed: ‘Every female composer has been through it’

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The film scoring industry is largely unregulated, with few protections for assistants. Veterans say abuse is rampant

In the wake of the #MeToo movement that toppled Harvey Weinstein and made the the entertainment industry tremble, an up-and-coming musician named Nomi Abadi vowed to expose one of Hollywood’s last dirty secrets: the toxic, abusive work conditions that run rampant behind the closed doors of soundtrack composing studios.

Abadi, a former child piano prodigy turned singer and composer, was a sexual abuse survivor and knew of many others in a part of the industry where men still vastly outnumber women and much of the work goes on unregulated at all hours of the day and night.

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