The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) announced Jessica Lange will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Lange will receive her award during the festival’s screening of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” in which she stars as matriarch Mary Tyrone opposite Ed Harris. She previously played the role on Broadway, earning her a Tony and Drama Desk Award.
The festival will open with a screening of “A Talent for Murder” and closes with “Wild Horse Nine.” “The Debut” will screen Oct. 27 as the Centerpiece Gala Presentation. Variety will present its fifth annual 10 Artisans to Watch at the festival, honoring standout talent in cinematography, costume design, editing, hair and makeup, production design, sound editing and design and visual effects. Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay will moderate that conversation.
Variety’s “Pixels and Pencils” panel also returns to SCAD Savannah Film Festival for a fifth year, spotlighting the directors behind the year’s standout animated features. Clayton Davis, Variety’s chief awards editor, will moderate the conversation with the six filmmakers. This year’s schedule includes Gala and Signature Screenings, Special Presentations, Professional and Student competition films, the Docs to Watch and Pixels and Pencils screening series and the Behind Their Lens and Below the Line panel series.
Throughout its history, the festival has screened more than 250 Academy Award-nominated films and honored nearly 225 legendary actors, directors, producers, writers and filmmakers from around the world. What I love most is that our students get to experience it all by being in the room with these artists, hearing how the work came together, asking questions and making connections that can shape their own careers.” The following 24 films have been selected for distinguished screenings: ● A Talent for Murder (Bleecker Street/LD Entertainment), dir. Anton Corbijn ● Behemoth! (Searchlight Pictures), dir.
Tony Gilroy ● Being Heumann (Apple Original Films), dir. Siân Heder ● Clarissa (Neon), dir. Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri ● Elsinore (Focus Features), dir.
Simon Stone ● I Play Rocky (Amazon MGM), dir. Peter Farrelly ● Josephine (Sumerian Pictures), dir. Beth de Araújo ● La Bola Negra (Netflix), dir.
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