The 2024 Locarno Movie Competition will honor veteran indie producer Stacey Sher, whose credit embody Erin Brockovich, Gattaca and Django Unchained, with this 12 months’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico, or finest impartial producer, Award. The prize celebrates “excellent personalities who’ve made main contributions to worldwide movie manufacturing.”
Along with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg at Jersey Movies, Sher helped kick-start the 90s period of U.S. indie filmmaking, producing groundbreaking hits together with Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Gattaca, and Out of Sight. She is arguably finest identified for her work with Quentin Tarantino, additionally producing The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, and with Steven Soderbergh, with whom she produced such hits as Out of Sight and Oscar-winner Erin Brockovich. Her newer credit embody Liesl Tommy’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect and the AMC collection Into the Badlands.
“Stacey Sher‘s work has profoundly reshaped our collective notions of impartial cinema,” mentioned Giona A. Nazzaro, Inventive Director of Locarno. “The Nineteen Nineties have been marked indelibly by her producer’s acumen and imaginative and prescient, giving rise to among the most iconic American movies by way of her stewardship.”
Sher will obtain the Rezzonico Award at a ceremony at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on August eighth. The competition may even display Erin Brockovich and Django Unchained in tribute.