Wind River
Wind River , starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner , is on the Oscar campaign trail and has just extricated itself from the Weinstein name . Though The Weinstein Company ( TWC ) bought and shepherded the film ’s theatrical passing , recent events have led director Taylor Sheridan , along with Olsen and Renner , to spearhead a cut of ties , specially given the subject matter of the film .
Wind Riveris gunning to be nominated for several Academy Awards ; Renner and Olsen for Actor and Actress , respectively , and Sheridan for Director . Sheridan took home the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and the film was nominated for Prix Un Certain Regard ( movie told in non - traditional ways ) and Camera d’Or ( good first feature pic ) . So , there ’s a chance that a pic talk out against violation and exploitation of char could take home a gold statue , after give a magnanimous middle finger to a human race who perpetuate the Hollywood culture of sexual molestation and development of fair sex .
Wind Rivershines a light on the prevalence of the rape of Native American women on reservation , in hopes that the motion picture will help fetch awareness and call others to action to end the annihilating using of women . PerDeadline , the irony of TWC funding the pic amidst Weinstein ’s now exposed story of blatant and consistent sexual torment of cleaning woman has lead to an official deal that will remove Weinstein ’s name from all awarding time of year screeners , home video releases via Lionsgate , and cyclosis liberation through Netflix . The film ’s Oscar military campaign will now be full fund by Acacia Entertainment rather than TWC , to further distance the moving-picture show from its fiscal ties .
The creative voices ofWind Riversit so nearly with the subject matter , it ’s no wonder they want to shake loose of TWC ties . Olsen herself volunteers at a rape handling center and use her political platform to empower women and talk for women ’s rightfulness . The story literally strike home for Sheridan , who has spent most of his vocation as an worker , most popular for playing David Hale onSons of Anarchy , and who live on a spread in Utah , where he became familiar with the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone communities . After hear their story , he was exhort to write and maneuver the piece .
Wind Riverfollows a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service federal agent ( Renner ) who finds a frozen eubstance of an 18 - year - old aboriginal American woman with brunt intimate trauma and exploded lungs from cold picture , after fleeing her sexual attacker . She was the best friend of the factor ’s daughter , who also choke three years earlier . Olsen plays a young FBI agent who amount to inquire , bringing a female perspective to the case .
The word is another enactment of solidarity within the industry , which has see many sectors fend up against the underbelly " casting couch " culture , which blatantly uses sexual violation and harassment to take advantage of both men and adult female in less muscular position . The culture has existed in secret for far too long , and Hollywood is finally order , " Enough . "
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