Riana Emma Balla, only 13 years old, participated in more than 100 competitions in 4 years, in various categories (music, film, drama), domestic and international competitions. She won most of the competitions, but was also awarded in the others. In 2021, her outstanding performance was the Golden Classical Music Awards world competition, where she won a debut concert opportunity for the 2023 season at Carnegie Hall in New York. In addition to numerous music awards, she has now become an actress who has been awarded 36 times. In 2020, she was awarded “BEST YOUNG ACTRESS” at the Los Angeles Film Awards for her role in “Breakdown”. In 2020, she was chosen as “BEST CHILD ACTRESS” at the American Golden Picture International Film Festival /Florida/. In 2022, the prestigious Best Actor&Director Awards (New York) chose her as the best child actress and honored her with the PLATINA award. But also in the adult category, she won many female lead awards, such as “BEST ACTRESS” for her performance in the film RIFT/RIANÁS, for example in Sydney.
AWARDS:
Riana Emma Balla worked in theaters, but nowdays she usually works on her slolo career. We can also see her in American productions, in leading and supporting roles. You can see her in the American series THE ALIENIST-ANGEL OF DARKNESS (2020) and in the short film DEFEKT (Breakdown), and in the year 2024 in the American movie BORDERLANDS as Young Lilith, the American series JACK RYAN, as well in FRIGHTIME, and in some more upcoming movies like: CURTIS’S LIFE, THE FUTURE OF CINQUECENTO, THE SIEGE, the 1242 -GATEWAY TO THE WEST, THE CHILD OF THE NIGHT, ROSE, and of course in her own movie: RIFT. This short film RIFT was written by Riana Emma Balla. Riana has also worked with world-famous actors such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Cate Blanchett, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Daniel Brühl and Nina Hoss. The director of BORDERLANDS Eli Roth.
FILMS:
Riana Emma Balla has already played several theater roles. She worked at the MISKOLCI NATIONAL THEATER, in the opera László Hunyadi, as young Mátyás Hunyadi, at the BUDAPEST OPERETTA THEATER, in the play Christmas Carol. She had the opportunity to play the role of the Shaman from the rock opera Stephen the King. She played the young Marilyn Monroe in the HEART Company, and she also played Alice in Alice in Wonderland.
THEATER:
In 2019, Riana Emma Balla, at the age of only 7, was admitted to the operetta course of Károly Peller as the youngest ever. After that, she showed herself as a performer on many stages, events and galas in different cities of Hungary during this period. She was invited by the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra for a joint performance, where she sang with symphonic accompaniment in front of nearly 2000 people. She has already worked together with the famous primas Norbert Salasovics and his band, who emerged from the 100-member gypsy band, and they are planning a joint performance with the world-famous violinist Roby Lakatos. As a performer she mainly entertains the masses with operetta/opera arias, but her repertoire also includes musicals, pop songs and evergreen hits. Among others, she performed at operetta galas in Várpalota, Balatonalmádi at the Hungarikum festival, Sóly, Szikszó, the international Cake De La Cake, Budapest, Balatonszemes, Kisgyőr, Emőd, Sárorpatak and Miskolc. It’s primary objective is to popularize the operetta genre among the younger generation.
PERFORMING ARTS:
Riana Emma Balla initially started working on operetta for her own pleasure. She uploaded videos of competitions and performances to her YouTube channel, and she received letters from more and more parents saying that their children started listening to operetta because they saw Riana’s videos. This is where the idea came from, that she wants to popularize the operetta genre among the young generation both at home and abroad. but nowdays she most likely into pop music, she never gave up the operetta singing tho. Among her videos, we can find recordings in German and Italian, French, English.
Riana Emma Balla’s social sensibility showed early. In 2019, at her own request, we visited the Ronald McDonalds House so that she could delight ill children with a musical and fairy-tale concert. She has already participated in a charity concert for the renovation of a kindergarten, and she also helps the Zsófi Reményvár Association, where she performs charity concerts and collects toys for ill children. She is also a member of the Miracle Group in Germany, where she also helped ill children. But she has already participated in a large-scale charity campaign in Budapest, in which 1,000 pizzas were distributed to homeless people in various parts of Budapest as part of the Pizza D’ORO promotion.
SOCIAL SENSITIVITY:
Riana Emma Balla’s latest short film is RIANÁS, she wrote the script and with a small crew she made a movie from her idea. Riana has been writing screenplays since 2019, which are of mixed genres. Since Riana Emma’s film roles are mostly drama and thriller genres, it is not surprising that this style of story is dark and dramatic. Moreover the film was made on a low budget, as she was independent filmmaker. She is planning to write and make other movies in the future in different generes.
You can read more about this on the RIANÁS/RIFT Facebook page.
The film achieved great success in the world. The film currently won 106 international awards at prestigious film festivals. Just a few of those headlines, which were recently leading news in the media. The short film RIANÁS/ RIFT is the international one is among the most awarded films of her works. Riana and her crew received several awards from Chicago, Canada, New York, From Paris, Hollywood, India and other places around the world. The film is currently in competition, so not for another year can be seen by the audience.
RIFT/ RIANÁS FILM AWARDS:
Riana Emma Balla still works in music and film business, but she has other hobbies that she likes to do in her free time and wiew the world from a different angle.
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