The 2024 Locarno Movie Competition will honor veteran indie producer Stacey Sher, whose credit embody Erin Brockovich, Gattaca and Django Unchained, with this yr’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico, or greatest impartial producer, Award. The prize celebrates “excellent personalities who’ve made main contributions to worldwide movie manufacturing.”
Along with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg at Jersey Movies, Sher helped kick-start the 90s period of U.S. indie filmmaking, producing groundbreaking hits together with Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Gattaca, and Out of Sight. She is arguably greatest recognized for her work with Quentin Tarantino, additionally producing The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, and with Steven Soderbergh, with whom she produced such hits as Out of Sight and Oscar-winner Erin Brockovich. Her newer credit embody Liesl Tommy’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect and the AMC collection Into the Badlands.
“Stacey Sher‘s work has profoundly reshaped our collective notions of impartial cinema,” mentioned Giona A. Nazzaro, Creative Director of Locarno. “The Nineteen Nineties had been marked indelibly by her producer’s acumen and imaginative and prescient, giving rise to a number of the most iconic American movies by her stewardship.”
Sher will obtain the Rezzonico Award at a ceremony at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on August eighth. The pageant may even display Erin Brockovich and Django Unchained in tribute.