The Galway Film Fleadh will welcome Oscar winning actress Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor, Medium) as a special guest at year’s festival. Huston will take part in “An Afternoon with Anjelica Huston”, a public interview at the Town Hall Theatre on the closing day of the festival (12th of July).
Also taking place will be a screening of a mini retrospective of her films including;
• ‘The Dead’ (1987) UK/IRL/US, Directed by John Huston
• ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ (2001) USA, Directed by Wes Anderson
• ‘Choke’ (2008) USA, Directed by Clark Gregg
The award-winning actress and director, continues her renowned family's legacy in film, which began with her grandfather, Walter, and her father, John.
Throughout her career, Huston, who spent most of her childhood in Ireland and England, has received multiple honors from the National Society of Film Critics, two Independent Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards and an honor from Women in Film. The Fleadh are set to present the “Galway Hooker” prize to Huston following her public interview.
Huston received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Maerose in the 1986 feature ‘Prizzi’s Honor’. Her directorial debut was an adaptation of Dorothy Allison's best-selling memoir, ‘Bastard Out Of Carolina’, which garnered Huston an Emmy nomination for her work on the controversial drama as well as a Director's Guild nomination. Huston directed, produced and starred in ‘Agnes Browne’, which was presented at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Huston currently serves on the Board of Directors at NUI Galway’s John Huston School of Film and Digital Media as well as Homeboy Industries/Jobs for a Future and she is a member of the Film Foundation’s Artist’s Rights Council.
