Cate Blanchett, Matteo Garrone, Molly Manning Walker Among 709 New Members of European Film Academy – Global Bulletin
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The European Film Academy has added a record 709 new members in its 2024 annual intake.
New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/U.K.), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France), Stéphan Castang (France), David Thion (France), Marie-Ange Luciani (France), Latifa Saïd (France), Rebecca Houzel (France), Thomas Hakim (France), Sami Mustafa (France/Kosovo), Mohamed Siam (France), Hanna Bergholm (Finland), Hamze Bytyçi (Germany) and Christian M.
Goldbeck (Germany). The intake also includes Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), Jerry Hoffmann (Germany), Aylin Tezel (Germany), Jasmin Tabatabai (Germany), Sofia Exarchou (Greece), Phedon Papamichael (Greece), Kate McCullough (Ireland), Matteo Garrone (Italy), Enzo d’Alò (Italy), Francesco Montagner (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Cindy Jansen (Netherlands), Fatih Rağbet (Netherlands), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Anca Puiu (Romania), Elene Naveriani (Switzerland), Selahattin Paşalı (Turkey), Molly Manning Walker (U.K.), Melanie Hoyes (U.K.), Lizzie Francke (U.K.), Charles Newland (UK), Jad Salfiti (U.K.) and Guy Nattiv (U.S.).
Some 49% of the new members are women, 50% are men and 1% define as non-binary. They hail from Germany (114), Italy (58), Greece (50), the U.K. (50), Switzerland (37), France (36) and Poland (36), Spain (26), Czech Republic (26), Ukraine (24), Romania (23) and Turkey (20).
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