This was just announced this afternoon. Looks like an exciting event, honoring a great screen legend. I’m in a rush, as I usually am, so here’s the press release:
Orlando, FL – (Mar. 30, 2011) – Enzian announced today Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Alan Arkin, will be honored at the Florida Film Festival’s 20th anniversary event, “An Evening with Alan Arkin,” on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Enzian.This Oscar® winning, three-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaking legend’s breadth of work spans nearly six decades and features diverse, original roles that blazed a trail in independent cinema. Arkin will receive the John M. Tiedtke Lifetime Achievement Award and the evening’s event will also include the 45th anniversary screening of The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, the film that earned Arkin his first Oscar® nomination in 1966. A moderated question and answer session between Arkin and the audience will follow the screening.
Starring in renowned and celebrated films, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and Catch-22 (1970), Arkin continues to earn universal acclaim for his performances in such films as The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Sunshine Cleaning (2008), City Island (2009) and most notably, Little Miss Sunshine (2006), which garnered the actor his first Academy Award® win.
“Alan Arkin is proud to call himself a character actor. In his travels through the American drama, he has been a comedian, a songwriter, and a director,” said Henry Maldonado, President of Enzian and the Florida Film Festival. “Mr. Arkin has had a leading part in the history of the American cinema, and very close to our heart at Enzian is his involvement in independent films. This 20th year of the Florida Film Festival, it is our honor to salute Alan Arkin with the John M. Tiedtke Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Individual tickets for “An Evening with Alan Arkin” ($30) and Platinum Passes, which grant holders access to all Festival films including guaranteed admission into all “Evening/Afternoon with” events ($650), are available at www.FloridaFilmFestival.com.