The 11th Annual California Film Festival Gala Night will be held at the Blackhawk Museum on April 18th, 2009. This year’s Lifetime Achievement Awardee is Ms Dianne Ladd, a recipient of numerous awards in television and motion pictures, and a three-time Oscar nominee. Derek Zemrak, Founder and President of the California Independent Film Festival, states “over our 11 year history, CIFF has honored some of Hollywood’s greatest, including Tony Curtis, Martin Landau, Rita Moreno, and Cloris Leachman, and this year, it is an honor to add Ms. Ladd to the list of honorees. This year’s Gala is going to be spectacular.”
Hailed by Time’s Magazine writer Richard Corliss as “one of the top ten actresses not only in this country, but the whole world.”, Ms Ladd received a Golden Globe for her television role in the sitcom, “Alice”; a British Academy Award for her role in the motion picture, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, coupled with an Oscar nomination.
Subsequent Oscar nominations were for her role in “Wild Heart”, and for the film, “Rambling Rose”, in which she co-starred with Robert Duval and her Daughter, actress, Laura Dern. As a momentous milestone in show business, she and Laura made a history as the first mother and daughter ever to be nominated for Oscar for the same motion picture in the same year!
Having starred in over 150 Television shows including two series (Alice) and Stephen King’s fifteen hour mini-series, Kingdom Hospital, Ms Ladd is also a recipient of three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest in Touched By An Angel, Grace Under Fire, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
“American Cowslip”, Ms Ladd’s latest film project, will be released soon, with co-stars Ronnie Blevins, Val Kilmer, Rip Torn, Cloris Leachman, Bruce Dern, and Peter Falk.
Tickets for the “Gala Evening Tribute” and “Slate Awards” are $80 and available through the festival’s website at www.CaIndieFilmFest.org, or visit the film festival’s Livermore office located at 2222 Second St., in the Old Theater Mall.
The 11th Annual California Film Festival is sponsored by The Independent, Senior Solutions, Comcast, and Yankee Music.
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