Matt Dillon Lands Locarno Award; Channel 4 Order; DocFest International Competition Jury; James Bond Doc — Global Briefs
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Matt Dillon To Receive Locarno Award
Matt Dillon is to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony on Thursday, August 4 in Piazza Grande will be accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989) and City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon, 2002), and a Q&A with the actor on Friday, August 5 at the Forum @Spazio Cinema. Dillon is best known for movies including The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), Wild Things (John McNaughton, 1998), There’s Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, 1998) and Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2018). Previous recipients of Locarno’s Lifetime Achievement Award have included Harrison Ford (2011), Alain Delon (2012), Jacqueline Bisset (2013), Harvey Keitel (2016) and, in 2021, Dario Argento.
Channel 4 Orders Facial Differences Format ‘Love My Face’
British broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned Glasgow’s Flabbergast TV to make life-affirming series Love My Face (working title). Each episode will see three people with visible facial differences —whether congenital, chronic, acquired or perceived — receive unique mental health support from disability campaigner Jono Lancaster. Support, advance and transformative treatments to help accept or address their differences are explored. It is producer Flabbergast’s first commission from Channel 4 since it landed the broadcaster’s Emerging Indie Fund discretionary award last year.
Sheffield DocFest Unveils International Competition Jury Ahead Of Thursday Festival Launch
Sheffield DocFest 2022’s International Competition Jury has been unveiled, comprising lecturer Emma Davie, whose film The Oil Machine which has its world premiere at the event; Nigerian filmmaker Ike Nnaebue, whose new