British filmmaker James Marsh has been confirmed as a guest of the 2011 edition of Reykjavik International Film Festival. Marsh, Academy Award winner for Best Documentary in 2008 for Man On Wire, will attend public screenings and participate in Q&A’s.
A special category has been announced, assembled with three of the filmmaker’s works. The Oscar-winning Man On Wire, the 1999 docudrama Wisconsin Death Trip and his latest, Project Nim. While Man On Wire recounts the infamous and highly illegal stunt performed by French acrobat Philippe Petit, of walking a line between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, Wisconsin Death Trip tells of the eerie series of mishaps, strange happenings and even demonic posessions in Black River Falls, a small town in Wisconsin, late in the 19th century.
This year’s Project Nim revolves around a controversial experiment conducted in New York by Columbia University scientists, when a baby chimpanzee, called Nim, was removed from his mother and raised as a human child.
Screening dates and other event timings will be announced soon. Festival passes and tickets are available in presale on the festival’s website, riff.is.
RIFF 2011 takes place from September 22nd to October 2nd.