Magician will be shown alongside a tribute to Workman, who will receive the MVFF Award from the California Film Institute.
“Just about anytime you watch an inspirational Academy Award clip montage or memorable film trailer, you are witnessing the genius of Chuck Workman,” the MVFF said in a news release. “In addition to creating short films and openings for 20 Academy Award presentations, Workman has directed the Oscar-winning short Precious Images, produced several documentaries (Superstar, The Source, The First 100 Years), edited main titles and sequences for countless film and television series, and crafted the iconic trailers for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and American Graffiti, among many others. Workman continues to galvanize audiences with his stirring cinematic compositions and demonstrates his absolute command of the form in homage to another master, Orson Welles, in this year’s Magician.”
The 96-minute documentary includes clips ranging from Welles’ experimental short Hearts of Age, shot when he was a teen, to the still-unfinished The Other Side of the Wind. Magician features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich and Richard Linklater (Me and Orson Welles).
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