“The incredible company that I’m in for this award is just stunning to me. “I was really humbled,” Stewart says of her reaction to being named a Cinema Unbound Award winner. The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Thursday, June 22, at the Portland Art Museum. “We can see the film itself as a documentation of what those artists were experiencing,” says Stewart, who adds that the plight of “immigrants and political refugees are still issues that we’re dealing with now.”Īs a recipient of this year’s Cinema Unbound Awards, Stewart is joined by fellow honorees Guillermo del Toro, Gregory Gourdet, Fred Armisen, Jon Raymond, and Tessa Thompson. That behind-the-scenes reality parallels the “Casablanca” refugee-crisis storyline, in which characters are desperate to flee the dangers of World War II. “They were fleeing persecution, and the prospect of death in Europe.” “So many of the cast and crew were emigres,” Stewart says. Stewart cites a current Academy Museum exhibit focused on the 1942 classic, “Casablanca.” Nostalgic fans who can quote lines from the script (“Here’s looking at you, kid,” “Round up the usual suspects,” “We’ll always have Paris,” and so on) may delight in seeing archival materials associated with the production.īut what makes the exhibit more than a pleasant trip down memory lane is what Stewart describes as a narrative that puts the “Casablanca” story in context. “The Academy Museum is in the rare position to be able to work directly with Academy members, and the international film community, to enlighten people on what it takes to make films, going deeply into film history,” Stewart says, in a recent phone interview.įilms made in earlier decades are valuable not just in themselves, Stewart suggests, but also as sources of information and insight about issues that remain timely today.
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