Eva María Daniels, producer on the 2020 Mark Wahlberg-starrer Joe Bell and EP on the latest Sydney Sweeney automobile Reality from HBO, has died. The information was introduced by good friend, filmmaker and fellow Icelander Börkur Sigthorsson. She was 43.
Daniels targeted on growing unique content material with socially related themes, launching her Eva Daniels Productions in New York in 2010.
The most up-to-date movies she was concerned with embody Reality, which premiered at Berlinale in 2023; Joe Bell, which premiered at TIFF in 2020 and obtained a large theatrical launch by Roadside Attractions; and Hold the Dark in 2018, starring Jeffrey Wright.
In a Facebook tribute, Sigthorsson recalled how early on Daniels discovered a means to assist Icelandic filmmakers by bundling their wants for movie inventory to obtain a greater value.
“This became her style,” he wrote. “She developed relationships with international filmmakers, offered opportunities for those whose talent she recognized but often lacked the means… and became an enabler and supporter of countless filmmakers who went on to become hugely successful.”
Reality is an adaptation of Broadway’s Is This A Room from playwright Tina Satter, who additionally directed the movie.