Other Venice Film Festival

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For Immediate Release: August 6, 2009
RE: Oliver Stone – Maverick Spotlight Award
The Sixth Annual Other Venice Film Festival

Oliver Stone

The Other Venice Film Festival is extraordinarily honored to be presenting Mr. Oliver Stone with our prestigious Maverick Spotlight Award at this year’s Sixth Annual Other Venice Film Festival. This award is presented to a film producer or director who, through their exemplary filmmaking career, has paid tribute to the unique history and creative spirit of Venice Beach, California. Past recipients of this award have been given to Catherine Hardwicke, Roger Corman, Werner Herzog, Tony Bill and Stacy Peralta.

Never in the history of American cinema has there been a film director who has made as significant a contribution to the social and political landscape as Oliver Stone. As an Oscar Award© winning filmmaker, Stone has directed such feature films as “Talk Radio”, “Platoon”, “J.F.K.”, “Wall Street”, “Born on the Fourth of July”, “Heaven and Earth”, “Nixon”, “Natural Born Killers”, “U-Turn”, “Any Given Sunday”, “Alexander”, “World Trade Center” and most recently, “W.”

On Friday, October 16, The Other Venice Film Festival will honor Stone with an Eighteenth-Annual, Anniversary Screening of his feature film, “The Doors”, a visually hypnotic and deeply personal journey into the life of the legendary rock singer Jim Morrison. From his humble beginnings on the Venice Beach Boardwalk to his uncontrollable rise and fall during the social revolution of the 1960s, Morrison was both an enigmatic pop icon and a self-destructive saint.

For more information, you may log onto the festival website (www.othervenicefilmfestival.com) or you may also contact Reuben de la Casas at (310) 806-2181

Please join us for this incredibly memorable event.

Reuben de la Casas
Festival Founder
The Other Venice Film Festival
Venice Beach, CA 90294
(310) 806-2181