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The 18th Stockholm International Film Festival presents the Stockholm Visionary Award 2007 to American director Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson will visit the festival to accept the award in person and to meet the audience in a special Face2face on Nov 16.
The motivation is as follows:

Wes Anderson receives the Stockholm Visionary Award for his humane and humoristic portraits of solitary human beings. In his films, he creates unique and stylized universes inhabited by characters searching for something to search for. Through his visionary filmmaking, Anderson has given a modern face to the classic ‘auteur’.

Wes Anderson grew up in Texas, and had his feature debut in 1996 with Bottle Rocket. Anderson co-wrote the script together with Owen Wilson, and has since worked with Owen and/or Luke Wilson in all of his feature films. Andersons widely praised feature debut was followed by Rushmore in 1998. Trailblazing comedy The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) resulted in an Oscar nomination for best screenplay for team Anderson/Wilson. In A Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Anderson put Wilson in front of the camera, and co-wrote the script with Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale).

Wes Andersons latest film The Darjeeling Limited (2007) will be screened in a special Visionary Award section at this year’s festival. The Darjeeling Limited tells the story of three brothers who set out to bond on an eventful trip throughout India. Owen Wilson is again in front of the camera, together with Adrien Brody (The Pianist) and Jason Schwarzman (I Heart Huckabees, Rushmore).

Wes Anderson will visit Stockholm together with Jason Schwarzman.
Preliminary press day Nov 15.

Get accredited to this year’s festival to make interview requests and get access to press screenings. Visit www.stockholmfilmfestival.se, click on ”press” to fill out an online application.

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The 18th Stockholm International Film Festival November 15-25 2007. The Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is now the leading competitive film festival in Northern Europe. The festival takes place every year in November, with more than 170 films from over 40 countries. The festival organizes exclusive screenings and the popular Summer Cinema - an outdoor mini-festival. On April 6 – 13, 2008, the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior brings the latest films to youngsters between 6 and 16 years of age.