Marjane Satrapi is set to be honored at the 2020 Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF), now in its ninth year. According to Variety, the “Radioactive” director will receive the fest’s Vision award, and is “expected to travel to Mallorca.”
“Marjane is the personification of the EMIFF Vision Award; her work reflects diversity and inclusion and she presents incredibly unique stories that are also universal and have the power to unite and create change,” said EMIFF founder and director Sandra Lipski
Satrapi most recently helmed “Radioactive,” a biopic of two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie that made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Rosamund Pike portrays the trailblazing chemist and physicist. Satrapi made her directorial debut with 2007’s “Persepolis,” an adaptation of her graphic novel of the same name. She co-directed the autobiographical story about her coming of age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. “The Voices” and “Gang of the Jotas” are among her other credits.
“Like many other festivals around the world, EMIFF is introducing a virtual element, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The festival will work in partnership with an online platform to showcase specific films in the 2020 line-up virtually. The online offering will also extend to panel events,” Variety details. “The physical festival will see new, distanced seating patterns at indoor and outdoor screenings, and will also see the popular drive-in cinema component expanded.”
EMIFF is slated to take place October 23-29.