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Backlot 2022
Saturday, October 29, 7 – 11 p.m.
Waypoint Aviation, Lunken Airport
Event attire: Hollywood Glam
VIP cocktail hour starts at 6 p.m., with general admission at 7 p.m.
Music provided by Fixx Band, and valet service is available at Waypoint Aviation.
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Celebrate the movie industry and the local crews and talent that keep the industry growing during Film Cincinnati’s fourth annual Backlot gala.
“We are excited to bring Backlot back to celebrate the work of our local crews and talent, as well as to welcome the motion picture industry to Greater Cincinnati,” said Kristen Schlotman, executive director of Film Cincinnati.
With the theme “Hollywood Glam,” Backlot is Film Cincinnati’s largest fundraiser, helping the non-profit continue to bring in major motion picture production teams to the Greater Cincinnati area. In 2017 and 2018, the last years figures are available, the motion picture industry had an economic impact of nearly $80 million in the Cincinnati area, according to the University of Cincinnati Economics Center.
Along with celebrating local talent, the event will honor Sarah Green with their Founder’s Award. Green is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated producer known for powerful auteur-driven work in film and television. She currently is in town for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, starring Tom Hardy, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer. She also is in post-production for Michael Shannon’s directorial feature debut, Eric LaRue.
Green produced Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life with Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Other notable productions include Nichols’ Mud, Midnight Special and Loving, Malick’s The New World, Knight of Cups and Song to Song, Julie Taymor’s Academy Award-winning Frida, Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight, and John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish.
Film Cincinnati, celebrating its 35th year in 2022, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Since its beginning in 1987, Film Cincinnati has brought hundreds of films to Greater Cincinnati, plus thousands of commercials, music videos, documentaries and industrials.