The Western will premiere at a Polish film festival next month at a screening to honor the cinematographer. Hutchins was killed in 2021 after a loaded prop gun handled by actor Alec Baldwin went off.
The film Rust is set to premiere in Poland three years after the tragic on-set fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
In October 2021, Alec Baldwin, the lead actor and a producer on the film, pointed what was supposed to be an unloaded prop gun while rehearsing a scene on the movie set outside Santa Fe. The gun discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
The Western film will now see its world premiere in late November at Poland’s Camerimage International Film Festival, in a screening meant to honor Hutchins’ memory, organizers said.
The festival will hold a panel discussion with Souza, cinematographer Bianca Cline, and Stephen Lighthill, Hutchins’ mentor at the film school AFI.
“We knew that our event was important to her, and that she felt at home among cinematographers from all over the world, who have been gathering at Camerimage for over 30 years,” festival director Marek Zydowicz said in a statement.
