Jane Campion to Receive Next Generation Indie Film’s 2023 Luminary Award
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jane Campion will be honored with Next Generation Indie Film’s 2023 Luminary Award. The director will accept the award at the third annual gala, which will take place on Oct.
29 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. Next Generation Indie Film Awards is a non-profit organization for independent authors and publishers.
It bestows the Luminary Award on a “transformative figure in the industry, an artist whose work and journey are a North Star to the filmmaking community, especially at a time when art and inspiration are much-needed.” Rian Jonhson was the inaugural recipient of the Luminary Award in 2022.
Campion’s most recent film, 2021’s “The Power of the Dog,” a searing Western drama about a hardened rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who torments his brother’s wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), was regarded as one of the best of the year and received 12 Oscar nominations.
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