Overview

• Emma Thompson will be honoured at the 78th Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 6 to 16 in Switzerland.
• The Dead of Winter, directed by Brian Kirk, will have its world premiere on Piazza Grande on August 8.
• Thompson executive produced the action thriller and stars as a widowed fisherwoman who intervenes in a teenage kidnapping during a Minnesotan blizzard.
• Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro praised Thompson’s four-decade career spanning acting, writing and producing from Shakespeare adaptations to major blockbusters.
• Vertical has secured North American distribution rights to the film, which also features Laurel Marsden, Judy Greer and Gaia Wise.