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EXCLUSIVE: The eighth DaVinci International Film Festival (DIFF) will coming Braveheart writer Randall Wallace pinch its Visionary Award astatine nan event’s opening nighttime connected September 25, 2026, astatine nan AMC Theaters astatine The Grove.
Wallace becomes nan 2nd personification to person nan grant aft Michael J. Fox took it location successful 2024. The grant “honors exceptional imaginative architects of cinema whose enduring bodies of activity animate and toggle shape world audiences.”
The opening nighttime will see a reddish carpet, a unrecorded accepted bagpipe processional, and past a screening of Braveheart followed by a Q&A and keynote with Wallace.
Wallace was Oscar-nominated for his book for Mel Gibson epic, Braveheart. He has besides directed movies including The Man In The Iron Mask, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Secretariat. He re-teamed pinch Gibson connected 2002 American warfare movie We Were Soldiers and has much precocious co-written nan scripts for Gibson’s upcoming The Resurrection Of The Christ films.
“Randall Wallace is simply a true architect of cinema, whose activity serves arsenic a powerful inspiration for nan movie community,” said Chadwick Pelletier, Founder and Executive Director of DIFF, which runs for 2 days. “His epic storytelling has genuinely stood nan trial of time, everlastingly defining nan creation of cinema. It is simply a profound privilege for DIFF to grant his bonzer bequest arsenic we footwear disconnected our eighth edition.”
“We motorboat our visions into nan dark, hoping they find a location successful nan hearts of others. To beryllium recognized pinch DaVinci’s Visionary Award is simply a beautiful affirmation of that chase,” commented Wallace.
