Legendary director Gus Van Sant will receive a Precious Gem Awards during Miami Film Festival GEMS. He’ll receive the award immediately following a screening of his latest film Dead Man’s Wire during a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast moderated by Scott Feinberg, Executive Editor of Awards, in front of a festival audience. The event will be held on Monday, Nov. 3 at 7:00 p.m. at Cosford Cinema.
Featuring captivating performances from Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Colman Domingo, and Al Pacino, Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire is the feature screenwriting debut of Austin Kolodney. The film recreates the strange, fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping that made aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.