Ryan Gosling to Present Vision Award to Nicolas Winding Refn At VISIONFEST
VisionFest 2010 is Filmmakers Alliances’ (FA) yearly celebration that brings together the best of L.A.’s independent filmmaking community. This year’s Vision Award Recipient is Danish filmmaker NICOLAS WINDING REFN, known for the “Pusher” trilogy. FA’s President, Jacques Thelemaque, “His work bares the signature of a true visionary – difficult to categorize, but singularly arresting, his films are not for the feint of heart – beautiful, often brutal and beyond compare.” His stunning biopic “Bronson” starring the amazing Tom Hardy has been called “A Clockwork Orange for the 21st Century!” by Damien McSorley (Zoo).
Gosling and Refn are currently teaming on the feature film “Drive”, based on the James Sallis novel of the same name; it follows “a stuntman whose already-exciting existence is jolted when he discovers that a contract has been put out on his life.”
The VISION AWARD is given to an established filmmaker whose artistic ambition and consistent filmmaking excellence provides artistic inspiration to emerging filmmakers all around the world. Past recipients include Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, Allison Anders, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Werner Herzog, Mark and Michael Polish, Kevin Smith, and producer Ted Hope.
“I see dozens of movies every year, but it’s relatively rare to encounter new directors with such exciting ability and instincts. I’ve detected the influence of my favorite filmmakers in Nicolas’s work, but he clearly has moved beyond homage to develop his own unique sensibility, which makes him the ideal person to receive this year’s Vision Award”, Stephen Pizzello, Executive Editor American Cinematographer.
Where: When:
Downtown Independent Theater Friday, August 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
