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Bentonville Film Festival: ‘Rosemead,’ ‘The Librarians,’ ‘Sovereign’ Win Awards, Lucy Liu Receives Rising to The Challenge Honor
It’s shaping up as an award-winning summer for actress-producer Lucy Liu. On Saturday night Liu received the Rising to the Challenge Award at the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, an honor that “recognizes artists who champion storytelling that breaks barriers and broadens representation.” It wasn’t her only award of the night. Her new drama Rosemead, […]
On Saturday night Liu received the Rising to the Challenge Award at the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, an honor that “recognizes artists who champion storytelling that breaks barriers and broadens representation.” Deadline’s Damon Wise praised Lin and screenwriter Marilyn Fu, writing in his review that they afford Liu “the headspace she needs to deliver a performance of quiet power, selling us on the desperation that drives Irene to the limits of her always practical-minded sanity.” The film directed by Kim A Snyder and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker examines attempts by librarians in Florida and Texas and elsewhere to combat book banning efforts, while simultaneously facing unhinged attacks from right wing zealots accusing them of grooming children.
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