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The mother of late cinematographer Helena Hutchins is boycotting the world premiere of Rust at a film festival in Poland on Wednesday, saying she sees it as an attempt by Alec Baldwin to “unfairly profit” from her daughter’s death. ,Also read: Alec Baldwin’s Rust to premiere at Poland Film Festival; The Internet ‘Can’t Believe They Still Made It’,
Hayla Hutchins’ mother’s statement
The western is premiering at Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in the city of Torun, three years after Hutchins was accidentally shot on the set.
Rust lead actor and co-creator Baldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on set outside Santa Fe, New Mexico in October 2021 when the revolver fired, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Went. Baldwin has said that he pulled the hammer back – but not the trigger – and the revolver fired.
Souza was expected to present the film at the festival, a popular industry event dedicated to the art of cinematography, and the premiere was being dedicated to Hutchins.
“It was always my hope to meet my daughter in Poland and see her work come to life on screen,” Hutchins’ mother, Olga Solovy, said in a statement released by her lawyer and carried by Britain’s national news agency, PA.
She said, “Unfortunately, it was taken away from me when Alec Baldwin fired his gun and killed my daughter.” , He wants to take unfair advantage of my daughter’s murder.
He said, “That’s why I refused to attend the festival to promote Rust, especially now that there is still no justice for my daughter.”
What happened on the rust set?
Hutchins, 42, was a rising Ukrainian cinematographer and mother of a young son when she was murdered. She grew up on a remote Soviet military base and worked on documentary films in Eastern Europe before moving to Los Angeles to study film and begin a promising film-making career.
A New Mexico judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin in the fatal shooting. But with the threat of criminal liability lifted, he faces civil lawsuits, including Solovey’s.
Film Arsenal Hannah Gutierrez-Reed received the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter. A New Mexico judge found earlier this year that his negligence amounted to a serious violent crime. Prosecutors convicted Gutierrez-Reed of unknowingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust”, where it was explicitly prohibited, and failing to follow basic gun safety protocols. Was.
This year’s CameraImage Festival has already been mired in controversy.
Blitz director Steve McQueen walked out of the festival to protest an editorial written by festival founder Marek Zydowicz about female cinematographers, which McQueen saw as sexist. Zydowicz has since apologized.
