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‘Erin Brockovich’ Producer Stacey Sher To Be Feted At Locarno
Sher will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Award.
Discussing Sher’s honor, Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, said the producer “profoundly reshaped our collective notions of independent cinema.” “The 1990s were marked indelibly by her producer’s acumen and vision and thus gave rise, through her stewardship, to some of the most iconic films in the canon of American filmmaking,” he said. Whether in films like Man on the Moon (1999) by Miloš Forman or Gattaca (1997) by Andrew Niccol, her desire to challenge what is still possible in filmmaking is in abundant evidence.
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