Legendary actress Jodie Foster to be featured guest at Sun Valley Film Festival
Jodie Foster, Academy Award-winning actress and recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards for her outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, will be a featured guest at the 2013 Sun Valley Film Festival, March 14-17 in Sun Valley, presented by Zions Bank.
The Festival will feature over 50 cutting-edge films, TV premieres, special children's programming, fabulous parties, engaging coffee talks with industry insiders, intimate filmmaker dinners, après ski gatherings, a screenwriters lab, a spectacular closing awards ceremony and more.
At the Festival, Foster will present during one of the featured Coffee Talks on the morning of Sunday, March 17. During this free and informal gathering, organizers say the actress will discuss her long and varied career and answer questions from the audience.
Foster will also present the Sun Valley Film Festival Vision Award during the Alaska Airlines Après Ski Closing Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening. The Vision Award is given to recognize a special filmmaker and their filmmaking journey.
"We are thrilled to have Jodie join us this year,” exclaimed Sun Valley Film Festival executive director Teddy Grennan. “Although the festival is only in its second year, the interest we have been generating from filmmakers around the globe, from industry visionaries like Jodie, and from movie lovers across the country has been remarkable.”
Foster is a fan of Sun Valley and eager to participate. “I love Sun Valley and am happy to support this new film festival that is building on the incredible heritage of a beautiful place,” she said.
The mountain resort setting of Sun Valley, the original ski town steeped in Hollywood history, provides a unique location for the new film festival. When Sun Valley Resort opened its doors in 1936, celebrities flocked to play at the new winter wonderland -- and Hollywood’s love affair with “America’s first destination ski resort” began. To celebrate the area’s old school Hollywood heritage and bring it into the 21st century, the inaugural Sun Valley Film Festival was launched in March 2012.
Jodie Foster has had one of the most substantial film careers in Hollywood history, with 50 feature films to her credit as actor or director, multiple Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and two Academy Awards® for Best Actress for her roles in The Accused and Silence of the Lambs.
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