Film fest to honour Italian filmmaker Vittorio Storaro

Panaji: Renowned

Italian

cinematographer

Vittorio

Storaro will be honoured with the prestigious

lifetime

achievement

award

at the 51st edition of

Iffi

in Goa.

Best known for his work in the films like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Conformist (1970), Last Tango in Paris (1972), 1900 (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Reds (1981), The Last Emperor (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Café Society (2016) and Wonder Wheel (2017),

Storaro

is the recipient of three Academy Awards for best cinematography for the films Apocalypse Now, Reds and The Last Emperor. He is, in fact, one of three living persons who has won the award three times.

The 51st Iffi will also pay homage to stalwarts of cinema who passed away in 2020 by celebrating their contributions to the film industry. Movies of these stalwarts will be featured as tributes.

These are Chadwick Boseman starrer 42 by Brian Helgeland, Cutter’s Way by Ivan Passer, Dev Bhoomi by Goran Paskaljevic, Allen Daviau in The Extra-Terrestrial by Steven Spielberg, Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Stephen Daldry, Midnight Express by Alan Parker, Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick, Ennio Morricone in The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino and Olivia De Havilland in The Heiress by William Wyler.

Homage will also be paid to 19 Indian personalities like Sushant Singh Rajput, Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Saroj Khan, Wajid Khan and others by featuring films they have been a part of.