The 2025 version of the Mediterrane Movie Pageant is falling into focus.
The third installment of the competition — scheduled to happen in Valletta, Malta from June 21-29 — has reeled in a jury that features filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Oscar successful manufacturing designer Rick Carter (Avatar), costume designer Charlese Antoinette (Air), set decorator Elli Griff (Napoleon), manufacturing designer James Worth (Poor Issues), Maltese director Mario Philip Azzopardi (ZOS: Zone of Separation). The jury will decide the recipients of the Golden Bee Awards, a listing that might be unveiled at a gala, on June 29.
The Mediterrane Movie Pageant, which is below the course of a brand new artistic group in competition director Ray Calleja and curator Mark Adams, options three pillars of programming: primary competitors (movies from throughout the Mediterranean), out of competitors (world alternatives) and Mare Nostrum or Our Sea (movies devoted to sustainability and environmental themes). The latter’s jury contains Grainne Humphreys, a longtime inventive director of the Dublin Movie Pageant, and Ania Trzebiatowska, a senior programmer on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
Past the fest’s public screenings, programming can even embody panels, roundtables and masterclasses from notable business expertise. Jury member Hardwicke might be pulling double responsibility this 12 months as she’s already been booked for a filmmaker dialogue in assist of her movie, Lords of Dogtown, which could have a twentieth anniversary screening. Previous audio system embody Mike Leigh, editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Poor Issues), Oscar-winning manufacturing designer Nathan Crowley (Depraved), casting director Margery Simkin (High Gun) and composer Simon Franglen (Avatar: The Method of Water).
This 12 months’s competition is being curated with the theme “We Are Movie,” which is supposed to be a mirrored image of the competition’s mission to unite creators and audiences in honoring the common language of movie. It additionally very a lot aligns with a significant Malta milestone: 2025 marks 100 years of filmmaking within the space, courting again to its first function movie, 1925’s Sons of the Sea. Within the century since, it has change into a sizzling manufacturing hub because of its structure, landscapes and water-based services at Malta Movie Studios. Motion pictures which have shot within the space embody Gladiator, Troy, Recreation of Thrones, Napoleon and plenty of extra.
“As we have fun 100 years of filmmaking in Malta, we’re honored to welcome an distinctive panel of judges who replicate the depth, range, and world attain of up to date cinema. Along with our competition curator, Mark Adams, we’re dedicated to shaping a program that not solely honors Malta’s cinematic previous but additionally champions daring new voices from throughout the Mediterranean and past,” stated Calleja in an announcement.
Added Malta movie commissioner Johann Grech: “The Mediterrane Movie Pageant was born from a easy but highly effective concept – to attach artistic minds from the Mediterranean and throughout Europe and remodel their concepts into actuality. We stand for alternative, collaboration and creativity.”