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6 6 I D G A M O N T H L Y DGA Screening Q&As Additional photos and podcasts are posted online at www.dga.org. photo by Marcie Revens photo by Shane Karns 1 2 Special Projects Global Cinema Series screens Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar's 21st feature, Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria), tells the story of a depressed director who is thinking of leaving fi lmmaking because of chronic health problems. A series of reencounters leads him to refl ect on the choices he's made. In recovering his past, he fi nds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need, he also fi nds his salvation. Pain and Glory earned Almodóvar a Palme d'Or nomination at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The fi lm is also Spain's offi cial entry for Best International Feature for the 92nd Academy Awards. Following the Eastern Region Special Projects Committee's Global Cinema Series screening in the DGA's New York Theater on September 30, Almodóvar discussed the making of Pain and Glory in a conversation moderated by Director Kenneth Lonergan. He also discussed the fi lm in a conversation with Global Cinema Subcommittee Chair Victoria Hochberg following the DGA Special Projects Global Cinema Series screening in Los Angeles on October 29. Almodóvar received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director in 2002 for his feature, Talk to Her, and won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2000 for All About My Mother. Photos: 1. Pedro Almodóvar and Kenneth Lonergan (moderator) in NY. 2. Pedro Almodóvar and Victoria Hochberg (moderator) in LA. Eastern Region Special Projects Global Cinema Series Screens Mati Diop's Atlantics An old lover may be reaching out from beyond the grave in Director Mati Diop's haunting fi lm from Senegal, Atlantics (Atlantique). Set in the outskirts of Dakar on Senegal's Atlantic coast, Diop's fi lm tells the story of Ada, a young woman who is in love with a construction worker named Souleiman but is already promised to another man. After Souleiman is lost at sea, a devastated Ada prepares to go through with her original wedding plans. But strange things begin to happen that might just thwart that idea. Diop made history as the fi rst black woman ever to compete in the Cannes Film Festival. Atlantics was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or and took home the Grand Jury Prize. The fi lm is now Senegal's offi cial entry for Best International Feature for the 92nd Academy Awards. Following the Global Cinema Series screening in the DGA's New York Theater on October 15, Diop discussed the making of Atlantics in a conversation moderated by Director Michael Almereyda. She is also scheduled to discuss the fi lm following the DGA Special Projects Global Cinema Series screening in Los Angeles on November 19. Diop's other directorial works include the documentary feature, A Thousand Suns, and the documentary short, Atlantiques. Photo: Directors Michael Almereyda (moderator) and Mati Diop. photo by Marcie Revens