‘Moonlight’ Producer Adele Romanski Teases ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ and ‘True Detective,’ Accepts Indie Star Award: ‘It Feels Good to Be Called Independent again’
variety.comMarta Balaga Academy Award-winning producer of “Moonlight” Adele Romanski teased upcoming projects at Poland’s American Film Festival, including Barry Jenkins’ “Mufasa: The Lion King.” “I think anything new is scary and scary is exciting.
I run towards that. What we saw was an opportunity to work with new tools, to explore the inside of a different medium and put our own stamp on it,” she said during a masterclass.
Romanski also worked on Jodie Foster-starring “True Detective: Night Country,” set to premiere in January. “Issa López, who is the showrunner and directed all six episodes, had a take on it that felt like [the show] was going back to the first season, one that people really responded to, and at the same time it was reinventing itself.” American producer and co-founder of Pastel, also behind Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” received the coveted Indie Star Award at the fest. “I felt so displaced after the Oscars for ‘Moonlight.’ I was a diehard indie filmmaker, those were my friends and my family, and then all of a sudden I was supposed to hang in a different room.
I have processed all that and I’m in a much better place now, but it feels good to be called independent again,” she said. Although Romanski initially thought about pursuing editing, in 2010 she ended up producing David Robert Mitchell’s “The Myth of the American Sleepover” instead. “At some point, you have to figure out what you are going to be in this world.
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