Christopher Plummer Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

Award winning actor Christopher Plummer was honored on Saturday, January 24 with a Lifetime Achievement Award given to him by the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and Florida Atlantic University at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale.

The night began with a film screening of "The Wind Across the Everglades," where Plummer starred in his second film in 1958 as Walt Murdock, a 19th-century Florida game warden who declares war on local bird poachers in the Everglades in early Miami, Florida.

The DeSantis Center for Motion Picture Industry Studies at FAU's Barry Kaye College of Business and FLIFF presented the film, with a brief introduction on the background of the film presented by Foster Hirsch, a professor of film at Brooklyn College and author of sixteen books on film and theater.

Hirsch then went on to introduce Plummer and mediate a Bravo Network's Inside the Actors Studio style Q&A with the actor. Hirsch and Plummer discussed his career and the different aspects of various films and co-stars.

Published 1/26/09 by

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