The Locarno Film Festival will hand American producer Stacey Sher its Raimondo Rezzonico Award at this year’s edition, which runs August 7 – 17.
Sher will receive the award at the Swiss festival’s famous Piazza Grande on August 8. The tribute will include screenings of two titles from her career, including Erin Brockovich by Steven Soderbergh and Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino.
On August 9, she will chair a panel conversation at the Forum @ Spazio Cinema. The festival has said the award is handed out to honor “outstanding personalities who have played a major role in international production.” Sher is one of the enduring names of American independent cinema.
Her credits include 90s classics such as Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Matilda (1996), Gattaca (1997), and Out of Sight (1998).
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