Portugal's Annual General Meeting (AGM) - featuring special guest, Film Director Catherine Hardwicke

About the Event

Don't miss the DA Portugal Annual General Meeting!  You'll get a chance to hear about what we accomplished in 2023.   We'll also be describing the 2024 strategy and vision:  To create blue wave of overseas voters to defeat the Republican nominee and ensure the USA remains a strong, free democracy.  

The stakes in a national election have never been higher, and we need your help to reach thousands of Democrats living in Portugal.   Come learn more about how you can get involved.

The meeting will also feature Hollywood film director, Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight, Lords of Dogtown, The Nativity Story). She will speak to the importance of the overseas vote and take Q&A about her experience as a woman in Hollywood.

This event is free and open to all DA members.  Please RSVP to receive the Zoom details.

 

 

About Catherine Hardwicke, Filmmaker

 

Hardwicke’s first film as a director (and co-writer) was the critically-acclaimed coming-of-age Thirteen, which won numerous awards in global film festivals, including the Director’s Award at Sundance, Golden Globe nominations for Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood, and an Academy Award nomination for Holly Hunter.  Hardwicke has since then become best known as the director of Twilight, which launched the blockbuster franchise and earned nearly $400 million at the global box office.  

Hardwicke’s other credits include: Lords of Dogtown (Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch), Miss You Already (Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette), Red Riding Hood (Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman), Miss Bala (Gina Rodriguez) and The Nativity Story (Oscar Isaac).  For television, she has directed episodes of This Is Us, Eye Witness, Low Winter Sun, Hell on Wheels, Reckless and the 14 part Quibi series Don’t Look Deeper (Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer).

Hardwicke previously worked as a Production Designer on films including Vanilla Sky (directed by Cameron Crowe) , Three Kings (dir. David O. Russell), The Newton Boys (dir. Richard Linklater) , Laurel Canyon (dir. Lisa Cholodenko), Tank Girl, and the classic western Tombstone. She holds an Architecture degree from UT Austin and did graduate work in animation at UCLA Film School.

Hardwicke’s latest work includes the wild action/comedy Mafia Mamma, filmed in Rome (Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci) – released in 2023. For Samuel Goldwyn’s global anthology film Tell it Like a Woman, she wrote and directed segments based on true stories about tough, inspiring women. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2023 and screened at the UN General Assembly.

Hardwicke’s gritty family drama Prisoner’s Daughter (Kate Beckinsale, Brian Cox), filmed on the back streets of Las Vegas, premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival and was released in 2023. Hardwicke recently worked on the upcoming Hulu series, Under the Bridge.

She directed Dreams in the Witchhouse (Rupert Grint, Ismael Cruz Cordova), inspired by a J.P. Lovecraft novella - for the Netflix anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s "Cabinet of Curiosities." It features a tree root witch and a talking rat with a human face.

 

 

 

WHEN

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 05:00 PM Lisbon Time

WHERE

This is a virtual event. See the event description above or RSVP for virtual participation options.

CONTACT

Sally DeSipio
[email protected]

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