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THE 23RD MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL WILL PRESENT THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO WALT DISNEY
Montreal, August 12 -- The Montreal World Film Festival will present its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, to Walt Disney on September 4. Walt's daughter Diane Disney Miller will accept the award on behalf of her late father.
In accepting the invitation to attend the Montreal World Film Festival, Diane Disney Miller said, "This is truly a worthy and important honor for my father, one he would have been proud and delighted to accept. It is a great privilege for me to come to the country of my grandfather, and to this wonderful city, and accept this award for him."
Joining Diane on stage to help celebrate Walt's life and career will be "Disney Legends," friends, and biographers. The program will be produced and moderated by Darrah Meeley in her 12th year as producer of the event. Rare clips and some more familiar clips will be shown, along with a musical presentation by Richard Sherman, of his and his brother Robert Sherman's, musical hits for Disney. This will be followed by a panel discussion in which all the participants will join together on stage to remember Walt.
Special guests include actress Hayley Mills, who was awarded a special Oscar® for "Pollyanna"; Peter Ellenshaw, Academy Award®-winning matte artist and production designer; Academy Award®-winning composer/lyricist Richard M. Sherman; Leonard Maltin, film critic, author, and "Entertainment Tonight" commentator; Associated Press veteran Bob Thomas, author of several books on Disney; Katherine and Richard Greene, authors and creators of a new Disney family Web site and CD on Walt's life; and Disney vice president of Studio Communications and author Howard Green and his wife, Amy Boothe Green, whose new book, "Remembering Walt," was just released.
Tickets must be bought in person at either the Place Des Arts Theatre
Ticket office or the Parisien Theatre.
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