(20 Nov 2024)
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Torun, Poland – 20 November 2024
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The Alec Baldwin movie "Rust" has screened at the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage in Torun, Poland.
The mother of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is boycotting the world premiere of the film Wednesday, saying she views it as an attempt by Alec Baldwin to “unjustly profit” from her daughter’s death.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for “Rust,” was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on the set outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October 2021 when the revolver went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
Souza is expected to introduce the film at the festival, a popular industry event dedicated to the art of cinematography, and the premiere was being dedicated to Hutchins.
“It was always my hope to meet my daughter in Poland to watch her work come alive on screen," said Hutchins’ mother Olga Solovey in a statement issued by her lawyer and carried by Britain’s national news agency, PA.
“Unfortunately, that was ripped away from me when Alec Baldwin discharged his gun and killed my daughter," she said. “Alec Baldwin continues to increase my pain with his refusal to apologize to me and his refusal to take responsibility for her death. Instead, he seeks to unjustly profit from his killing of my daughter.”
The festival’s director Marek Żydowicz released a statement ahead of the premiere, saying that the team behind "Rust" approached the festival to screen the movie, writing "we wanted to pay tribute to Halyna, who respected our festival and who wanted to show her film here. There is no commercial undertone, either from our festival or the filmmakers."
Hutchins, 42, was a Ukrainian cinematographer on the rise and a mother of a young son when she was killed. She grew up on a remote Soviet military base and worked on documentary films in Eastern Europe before studying film in Los Angeles and embarking on a promising movie-making career.
Alec Baldwin will not be attending the premiere.
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