La Biennale di Venezia and Cartier has announced that the legendary American director, writer and producer Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Last Man Standing) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st – September 10th, 2022), dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
The award ceremony for Walter Hill will take place on Tuesday September 6th 2022 in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) at 9.45 pm, before the screening Out of Competition of his new film, Dead For A Dollar (USA, Canada, 114′) with Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, and Benjamin Bratt.
In accepting, Walter Hill has declared: “In the film world, one knows it’s a great honor to be invited for a special screening at the Venice Film Festival. With my new film Dead For A Dollar, this is the fourth time that I’ve been so fortunate, and now this award makes me yet more grateful. My thanks to Alberto Barbera, Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, Cartier and the entire film community that has given me so much support and encouragement over the years. Thank you all, you’ve made an old man happy.
Welcoming this announcement, the Director of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera has stated: “Both inside and outside of tradition, Walter Hill constantly redraws the contours of the genres that form the horizons of his cinema – if nothing else, in order to transcend conventions in his nonstop search for a constructive relationship with the legacy of the American legend, inherited from classic cinema, and, on the other hand, for authentic modernity in ethics and form.
“Whether it be westerns, thrillers, horror, war films, or detective movies, Hill never refrains from making them an opportunity to create formal and narrative geometries that aim to recount modern times through genre stereotypes and to propose an aesthetic point of view that disregards and goes beyond the traditional demarcation line between good and evil. An auteur in the full sense of the term, Walter Hill nevertheless has no problem recognizing himself as a specialist in action movies, whose violence is subjugated to various degrees of stylization, and his search for new visual effects is conducted through constant experimentation on how to use the various possibilities offered by the film language.”
“For the second edition of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, Cartier is proud to join the Venice Film Festival in paying tribute to Walter Hill’s outstanding work, talent and particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry”, has declared Arnaud Carrez, Chief Marketing Officer of Cartier. “Walter Hill has enriched the world of cinema with his productions since the 70s and has unequivocally become a mainstay in contemporary artistic creation”.
Myriad Pictures handled all sales for DEAD FOR A DOLLAR outside of North America. Universal Pictures Content Group has key international rights, including United Kingdom, Latin America, Scandinavia, Benelux, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, and Italy. Splendid has rights in Germany, SND in France, and A Contracorriente in Spain. Quiver Distribution will release the film in the US and Canada this Fall.
