John Sayles and Maggie Renzi will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and introduce the film Lone Star presented in 35mm at the 2017 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival on Friday October 20th.
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi double as husband and wife and creative team. The pair originally met while studying at Williams College and released their first film together, Return of the Secaucus Seven, a few years after graduating. The film went on to win major awards, including the LA Critics’ Award for Best Screenplay, thus launching their careers as independent filmmakers. Since then, Sayles and Renzi have worked both collaboratively and separately, becoming icons in American independent film.
“John Sayles is an auteur in the truest sense of the word and the human embodiment of independent cinema.” Jacques Paisner, Executive Director Santa Fe Independent Film Festival says.
The Awards Ceremony will be followed by Sayles’ and Renzi’s Oscar-nominated film Lone Star. Lone Star follows Sam Deeds, Sheriff of Rio Country Texas and son of Sheriff Buddy Deeds who is revered for replacing the corrupt Sheriff Charlie Wade. The young Sheriff is called to the small town of Frontera where a skeleton, the body of Charlie Wade, has been uncovered in the desert. Deeds soon finds himself caught amid the town’s long buried secrets, and suspicious that his father may not be the just man he’s made out to be. Written and directed by John Sayles, produced by Maggie Renzi, starring Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey, and Elizabeth Peña.
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John Sayles and Maggie Renzi to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and introduce the film Lone Star presented in 35mm at the 2017 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival on Friday October 20th.
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi double as husband and wife and creative team. The pair originally met while studying at Williams College and released their first film together, Return of the Secaucus Seven, a few years after graduating. The film went on to win major awards, including the LA Critics’ Award for Best Screenplay, thus launching their careers as independent filmmakers. Since then, Sayles and Renzi have worked both collaboratively and separately, becoming icons in American independent film.
“John Sayles is an auteur in the truest sense of the word and the human embodiment of independent cinema.” Jacques Paisner, Executive Director Santa Fe Independent Film Festival says.
The Awards Ceremony will be followed by Sayles’ and Renzi’s Oscar-nominated film Lone Star. Lone Star follows Sam Deeds, Sheriff of Rio Country Texas and son of Sheriff Buddy Deeds who is revered for replacing the corrupt Sheriff Charlie Wade. The young Sheriff is called to the small town of Frontera where a skeleton, the body of Charlie Wade, has been uncovered in the desert. Deeds soon finds himself caught amid the town’s long buried secrets, and suspicious that his father may not be the just man he’s made out to be. Written and directed by John Sayles, produced by Maggie Renzi, starring Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey, and Elizabeth Peña.
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2017 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival to Host Indie Film Legend John Waters’ Live One Man Show
A special evening with John Waters will be a highlight of the 2017 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival on Saturday, October 21st. The main event of the evening will be John Waters’ LIVE with Meow Wolf as Presenting Sponsor, in his one-man-show, “John Water – This Filthy World: Dirtier & Filthier, as he highlights his impressive film career and perverse taste. The living independent film legend (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos) who William Burroughs dubbed “The Pope of Trash,” will follow his show with a book signing of his latest title Role Models.
“Waters and Meow Wolf began as art on the edge and now are at the center of pop culture, like SFIFF, so we are honored to collaborate with Meow Wolf for such a special evening with Mr. Waters” said Liesette Paisner Bailey, Festival Director.
John Waters grew up in Baltimore in the 1950s, obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his counterculture friends as his cast, Waters began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-’60s. By the early 1970s, he was making features, breaking into world-wide notoriety with Pink Flamingos (1972) – a bold exercise in ultra-bad taste. Waters successfully crossed over to Hollywood with Hairspray (1988). Waters continues to create daring independent films today. His film Hairspray was turned into the eight time Tony award-winning broadway musical.
The 2017 Ninth Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will begin on Wednesday October 18, 2017, and come to a close on Sunday October 22, 2017, holding five (5) days of independent film, interactive social events, and numerous instructive and exploratory workshops.