Posted Thursday August 26, 2010 - 5pm
Movie producer Ryan
Kavanaugh, whose recent films include Mamma
Mia, A Serious Man and The Strangers, will be honored at the Israel
Film Festival Gala Awards in Beverly Hills on October 20.
Kavanaugh, who is
the founder and CEO of Relativity Media, will be presented with the 2010 IFF
Achievement in Film Award.
The Israel Film Festival will present over 40
films and runs in Los Angeles from Oct. 20 – Nov 4.
Kavanaugh has created business and financial
structures for a number of studios, production companies and producers, and has
introduced over $10 billion of capital to these structures.
Past structures and deals include Sony,
Universal, Warner Bros., Marvel and many others.
As a producer, Ryan Kavanaugh's personal
production line-up includes: Tarsem Singh's War
of Gods, an epic action adventure film in the vein of 300, and David O.
Russell's The Fighter starring
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.
Kavanaugh's recent films include Universal's Mamma Mia and A Serious Man; Lionsgate's Brothers
and 3:10 To Yuma; The Weinstein Company's Nine; Screen Gems' Dear John;
and under Rogue Pictures, Last House On
The Left, The Unborn and The Strangers.
Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir
Fenigstein said, "Ryan Kavanaugh’s accomplishments within the film industry
command the highest respect, making him the
ideal recipient for the IFF Outstanding Achievement in Film Award.”
"His innovativeness as a producer and
executive combined with his support of the Jewish community and Israel are most
admirable.”
Past
IFF Achievement in Film Award recipients include Edward Zwick, Paul Schrader,
Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Celebrating
its 25th anniversary with events in Los Angeles,
New York and Miami,
the Israel Film Festival is the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States.
In
the last two and a half decades, the Festival
has presented more than 800 Feature films, documentaries, television dramas and
short films to over 900,000 Filmgoers and brought hundreds of Israeli
filmmakers to the U.S. to share their art.
The
program presents 40 films in various venues with multiple screenings taking
place at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, the Royal in West
Los Angeles, and the Laemmle Fallbrook 7 in West Hills.
A complete
list of films to be presented at this year’s festival will be announced
shortly.
