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‘The Piano Lesson’ Star Danielle Deadwyler to Receive Mill Valley Film Fest Award (EXCLUSIVE)
Danielle Deadwyler will receive the Mill Valley Film Festival's award for acting at a spotlight presentation of 'The Piano Lesson' on Oct. 6.
With the award, Deadwyler joins the ranks of past honorees including Nikyatu Jusu, Regina King, Denis Villeneuve, Robert Pattinson, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Brie Larson and Steve McQueen. “Malcolm Washington’s confident directorial debut both honors the soul of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play and infuses it with a vibrant cinematic sensibility. He’s assembled a great cast, actors who have an incredible sense of the language and spirit that made Wilson one of America’s greatest playwrights,” stated MVFF director of programming Zoë Elton about the film.
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