The Locarno Movie Competition will hand American producer Stacey Sher its Raimondo Rezzonico Award at this 12 months’s version, which runs August 7 – 17.
Sher will obtain the award on the Swiss competition’s well-known Piazza Grande on August 8. The tribute will embrace screenings of two titles from her profession, together with Erin Brockovich by Steven Soderbergh and Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino. On August 9, she is going to chair a panel dialog on the Discussion board @ Spazio Cinema.
The competition has mentioned the award is handed out to honor “excellent personalities who’ve performed a serious position in worldwide manufacturing.”
Sher is without doubt one of the enduring names of American impartial cinema. Her credit embrace 90s classics comparable to Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Matilda (1996), Gattaca (1997), and Out of Sight (1998). She has additionally produced sequence like Reno 911! and the Emmy award-winning Mrs. America (2020). And in 2021, she produced the 93rd Academy Award ceremony with Steven Soderbergh.
Discussing Sher’s honor, Giona A. Nazzaro, Creative Director of the Locarno Movie Competition, mentioned the producer “profoundly reshaped our collective notions of impartial cinema.”
“The Nineteen Nineties have been marked indelibly by her producer’s acumen and imaginative and prescient and thus gave rise, by her stewardship, to a number of the most iconic movies within the canon of American filmmaking,” he mentioned. “Her lengthy affiliation with filmmakers comparable to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh is proof of her imaginative and prescient and devotion to the craft. Whether or not in movies like Man on the Moon (1999) by Miloš Forman or Gattaca (1997) by Andrew Niccol, her need to problem what continues to be potential in filmmaking is in considerable proof. Celebrating Stacey Sher’s vital achievements on the Locarno Movie Competition and awarding her with the coveted Raimondo Rezzonico Award is an honor and pleasure for us in addition to a present for movie lovers everywhere in the world.”