Yale in Hollywood has revealed Jennifer Beals and Roshan Sethi as honorees for its sixth annual digital movie competition, set to run Dec. 4-6.
Beals will obtain the competition’s 2025 Profession Achievement Award, whereas Sethi will probably be offered with the Queer Voice Award. Each honorees will settle for their awards on the Yale in Hollywood Fest 2025 Awards Livestream on Dec. 6.
The Profession Achievement Award has beforehand been bestowed upon actor C.S. Lee and tv creator Justin Noble. The Queer Voice Award was established in 2024 by juror and 2023 fest award recipient Justin Noble.
Beals government produced and starred in “The L Phrase: Technology Q,” the Showtime revival of her authentic hit sequence. Her portrayal of Bette Porter earned her the GLAAD Golden Gate Award, two NAACP Picture Award nominations and a Satellite tv for pc Award nomination. In 2012, she obtained the Human Rights Marketing campaign’s Ally for Equality Award for her LGBTQ+ neighborhood advocacy. Beals can be government producing “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” for Freeform alongside “The L Phrase” creator Ilene Chaiken. In 2024, she launched Run-A-Muck with Chaiken, a cross-platform queer media model producing content material throughout movie, TV and dwell occasions.
Sethi, a author, director and working towards oncologist, is understood for co-creating the Fox medical drama “The Resident.” He directed the Impartial Spirit Award-winning movie “7 Days,” “World’s Finest” for Disney Plus and “A Good Indian Boy,” and co-wrote “Name Jane.”
The three-day competition lineup will characteristic brief movies and livestream occasions, with all packages streaming free worldwide at yihfest.com from Dec. 4 by means of Dec. 7.
VEEEU is awarding two $500 prizes to competitors winners chosen by the competition jury. Story-boards.ai, a Swiss AI storyboard software program firm, will sponsor three one-year subscription awards for competitors winners.
Yale in Hollywood Fest showcases movies that includes not less than one Yale pupil, alumnus or present employees member in a key inventive function. The group is led by founder Kevin Winston, with Melissa Daybreak Johnson and Quentin Lee serving because the competition’s founding programmer and director, respectively.
Previous Yale in Hollywood Fest honorees embrace Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung, Robinne Lee, Justin Noble, Cory Finley, Kahlil Inexperienced and C.S. Lee.
