We are very happy to announce that producer Jan Harlan, long-time collaborator of Stanley Kubrick, is this year's guest of honour and receiver of the Lifetime Achievement award at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, taking place from the 12th to the 16th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia.

 

Lasting for 30 years, Harlan's collaboration with Kubrick started with a project about Napoleon that would never be realized. It continued with A Clockwork Orange, where Harlan was an assistant producer, and lasted until Kubrick’s last film Eyes Wide Shut. It was Jan Harlan who suggested the use of Also Sprach Zarathustra on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey and later became a literal keeper of the flame, overseeing with unflagging energy the huge archives and extraordinary exhibitions curated and created around the world today from Kubrick’s singular film opus. A brilliant lecturer in film schools around the globe, he not only communicates a priceless enthusiasm for this subject, but displays a questioning curiosity for new and young cineastes wherever he is invited.

 

He also made a moving documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, which will be shown as a part of the retrospective of our guest of honour’s films. A worthy representative of an extraordinary family of film-making talents, we welcome him with great delight to the family of Grossmann in 2016. It is an honour and a pleasure for us to honour him as few personalities shine so brightly in the darks of the cinema today.

 

More information about this year's Grossmann Festival can be found here:

http://www.grossmann.si/home/