Albert appears opposite lead actress Grace Van Dien in the feature film Silver Star, which will have its world premiere at the 50th edition of Deauville Festival du Cinéma Américain in France. Amongst the over 100 films presented at three screening sites are Sean Baker’s 2024 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Chris Sanders’ animated The Wild Robot, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.
Directed by Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar, Silver Star stars Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things) as a pregnant teenager taken hostage by Billie (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), a young African American tomboy whose attempt at a bank robbery goes wrong. Together, they run away, embarking on a twisted journey, clashing and struggling for common ground, until Franny offers Billie an unexpected deal…
The film will screen on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 4:30pm, at Center International de Deauville, where Lola Bessis, Ruben Amar, and Grace Van Dien will be in attendance. The film will screen a second time on Thursday, September 12, 2024, 8:30pm, at Cinéma le Morny 2.
Deauville Festival du Cinéma Américain highlights the diversity of American cinema, from major Hollywood productions to independent films. Over the past 50 years, the festival has discovered films which have marked cinema history: Darren Aronofsky’s Pi, Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovitch, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, Paul Haggis’s Crash, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton’s Little Miss Sunshine, Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Matt Ross’s Captain Fantastic, and Ben Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild.