GLASGOW: BAFTA-winning Glaswegian filmmaker Lynne Ramsay will be honoured with the Cinema City Honorary Award at the 22nd Glasgow Film Festival (GFF). She will receive the accolade on March 6 during a special In Conversation event titled ‘From Page to Pulse’, hosted by Glasgow filmmaker Adura Onashile (Girl) as part of the festival’s Industry Focus strand. The session will explore Ramsay’s “unparalleled approach to adaptation,” organizers said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ramsay made her feature debut with the 1999 Glasgow-shot ‘Ratcatcher’, which won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut. Over the last three decades, she has become known for her distinctive visual style and powerful storytelling, directing films including ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’, ‘Die My Love’, and ‘You Were Never Really Here’, the festival noted.
Launched in 2024, the Cinema City Honorary Award recognizes filmmakers who have made “an outstanding contribution to cinema.” The award is named after Glasgow’s nickname “Cinema City,” given in the 1930s when the city had more cinemas per capita than anywhere else in the UK. Previous recipients include Viggo Mortensen and fellow Glaswegian James McAvoy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Lynne Ramsay is one of a very small number of filmmakers who have the seemingly miraculous power of taking a unique vision in their minds and creating it onscreen exactly as they imagined,” said Paul Gallagher, GFF head of program.
