James Franco will present, Out of Competition, the film "The Sound and the Fury".
This year the eclectic actor, director, screenwriter, producer, American artist
James Franco will receive the
Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker prize at the
71st Venice Film Festival. Previous winners of the famous prize, which honors personalities who has made innovation in contemporary cinema, include artists like
Takeshi Kitano, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Spike Lee, Ettore Scola.
James Franco will be awarded the prize at the Sala Grande in
Palazzo del Cinema (
Venice Lido) on
5th September. Following the ceremony,
Venice Film Festival will present the world premiere, Out of Competition, of the new film written, directed and interpreted by James Franco:
The Sound and the Fury. Franco is one of the main protagonists together with Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Joey King, Ahna O’Reilly and Seth Rogen.
James Franco participated for the first time in
Venice Film Festival 2011 as director and screenwriter for
Sal (Orizzont), a biographical homage to the actor Sal Mineo. In the same year at the
Art Biennale he presented the visual arts installation
Rebel (a collateral event), homage to the film "Rebel Without a Cause" by Nicholas Ray. In 2012 he came to the Festival as actor and producer of
Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine (film in competition). In 2013 he was in
Venice as director and screenwriter of
Child of God (in competition), an adaptation of the homonym novel by Cormac McCarthy, and as the star of
Palo Alto by Gia Coppola (Orizzont), based on a collection of short stories written by
James Franco himself.
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