this The most anticipated A-list star at Italy’s Turin Film Festival, which opens on Friday, isn’t award-winner Sharon Stone or Angelina Jolie, who will be on hand to screen her new film as a director. No blood.
Instead, Alec Baldwin was charged with manslaughter after a tragic accident on the set of his indie western. rust Was fired in August. October 21, 2021 rust Photographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on set when Baldwin fired live ammunition from a prop revolver that was originally filled with fake bullets. The gunfire also struck film director Joel Souza in the shoulder, narrowly missing his spine.
Baldwin will fly to the northern Italian town of Turin on Monday, where he will be awarded the festival’s prestigious “Stella a Mole,” a career achievement honor. He will meet international media at a press conference ahead of a screening of his 1990 thriller The Hunt for Red October. Stone and Matthew Broderick will also be on hand to receive the TFF Career Award. Past winners include Kevin Spacey and Angelina Jolie.
rust The film premiered without Baldwin at the Camerimage Film Festival in Torun, Poland, earlier this week to a warm reception. Director Sousa and new cinematographer Bianca Klein were in attendance. Before the screening, a minute’s silence was observed in Hutchins’ memory.
The screening was introduced by Hutchins’ close friend Rachel Mason, who has been working on a documentary about the director of photography. She emphasized that “there was so much controversy and difficulty surrounding the film” following the accident. She said she considered Souza and Klein “real heroes” for completing the film after the tragedy.
rust It tells the story of a 13-year-old boy in Wyoming in the 1880s who accidentally kills a rancher and goes on the run with his grandfather, played by Baldwin.
The 42nd Turin Film Festival will be held from November 22nd to 30th.
