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Sun Valley chooses The Debut to open its December film festival

Jesse Eisenberg’s film will launch the December 2–6 festival, with Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial selected for the closing screening. The programme includes 30 shorts alongside features, artist conversations and honours for Bill Pullman, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen. Jessica Lange’s previously announced award will accompany a screening of Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

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Festival crew unload brushed-aluminium film canisters and transit cases outside a timber-and-stone cinema venue in the snow-covered mountain town of Sun Valley, Idaho, ahead of the December film festival.

The Debut will launch the festival

The Sun Valley Film Festival in the United States has selected Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut for its opening screening and announced its film programme and honorees.[1], [2]

The event runs from December 2 to 6. Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, a film about the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, will close the festival. 30 short films are scheduled across the five days. The feature selection also includes All of a Sudden, A Long Winter, The Row, Tangles and Ink.[1]

Screenings accompany honours for actors and filmmakers

Actor Bill Pullman will receive the Pioneer Award and attend with Everybody Digs Bill Evans. Producers Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen are selected for the Impact Award; their animated production also has a screening. Director Peter Farrelly will discuss his film I Play Rocky on December 5 after its screening. The production of the 1976 boxing film starring Sylvester Stallone is its subject.[1]

Lange’s award dinner follows her film’s screening

The previously announced Vision Award for actor Jessica Lange has a December 4 dinner. On December 3, audiences will see Lange alongside actor Ed Harris in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Tenzing writer Luke Davies is the recipient of the Deadline Disruptor Award. The High Scribe Award goes to Elsinore writer Stephen Beresford, a screenwriter and playwright. The entertainment publication Deadline co-presents that honour. The programme combines these planned honours with conversations involving participating artists.[1]

References

  1. News sourceDeadlineSun Valley selects The Debut to open and Artificial to close↩1↩2↩3↩4
  2. News sourceThe ContendingSun Valley selects The Debut to open its film festival↩

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