Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg (Toronto, 1943) will receive the Donostia del Zinemaldia award during this next edition, the seventieth, as announced by his organization today. The disturbing filmmaker joins Juliette Binoche on the honor list for this edition of the festival, which will be held between September 16 and 24.
Cronenberg will receive the award next September 21st at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, after which his latest film will be screened, the feature film “Crimes of the future”, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart and which competed at the last Cannes Film Festival.
Cronenberg has directed twenty films, including “Scanners”, “The Fly”, “A History of Violence”, “Eastern Promises”, “Cosmopolis”… Now, he joins the list of filmmakers who have received the Donostia Award, together with Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Agnès Varda, Hirokazu Koreeda and Costa-Gavras.
The Canadian filmmaker has also appeared as an actor in films by other filmmakers, such as “Nightbreed” (Night Races, 1990, Clive Barker), “To Die For” (All for a Dream, 1995, Gus Van Sant) , “Extreme Measures” (When crossing the limit, 1996, Michael Apted) and “Falling” (2020), by Viggo Mortensen, whom he has also directed a few times. In 2014 he published his first novel “Consumed: A Novel” (Consumed).
Source: Eitb
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