EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has picked up North American rights to Hilma — the newest movie written and directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Lasse Hallström (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), which is poised to make its North American premiere on the Palm Springs Film Festival.
The cinematic portrait of the Swedish artist and feminist pioneer Hilma af Klint — who’s performed at totally different ages by Tora Hallström and Oscar nominee Lena Olin — will premiere theatrically on the Quad Cinema in NYC on April 14 earlier than increasing nationwide.
Hilma brings to the massive display screen the life story of a girl who defied conventions and revolutionized the artwork world when her work was exhibited in its entirety in 2019 on the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The artist died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the lady who invented summary portray, displacing Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian because the initiators of summary portray and Modernism. From her adoration of the occultist Rudolf Steiner and her invincible perception in spirits, to her unconventional romantic life and shut circle of fellow feminine artists who converged round Hilma and her atelier, the movie gives a portrait of a girl who selected to stay true to her imaginative and prescient as an artist, regardless of working in a hostile, misogynistic world the place ladies weren’t anticipated to precise themselves and weren’t but allowed to vote.
Hallström’s newest additionally stars Tom Wlaschiha and Catherine Chalk. Helena Danielsson produced the movie for Viaplay Studios, alongside Hallström and Sigurjon Sighvatsson.
“Lasse Hallström has brought to life one of the least recognized and most enigmatic painters working in the early twentieth century,” mentioned Juno Films CEO, Vondah Elizabeth Sheldon. “His portrait of Hilma is nuanced and will help cement a place in the canon of great artists for this visionary whom critics initially overlooked, partly due to Hilma’s own insouciance towards the art world and because her paintings lay in storage until their discovery in 1967.”
“I’ve spent several years trying to understand the mystery of Hilma af Klint,” said Hallström. “This is a story about an unwavering search for the truth about humanity and the universe, at a time when men set all the rules. Despite so many obstacles, Hilma created art that influences our lives today. My ambition is for the audience to experience these struggles with all their senses.”
Juno Films is a boutique movie distributor and world gross sales agent based by Sheldon, who has over 20 years of expertise within the distribution of documentary and have movies for each North American all-rights releases and worldwide gross sales. The firm’s latest releases embrace Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s surreal drama Earwig, Peter Hedges’ pandemic drama The Same Storm, and the Sundance documentary The Most Beautiful Boy within the World from filmmakers Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri.
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