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| Zadan (w/MK) in 2003 at the Hollywood Governors Ballroom |
Zadan
and Meron, the producing duo behind the screen and television hits
CHICAGO, HAIRSPRAY and SMASH, and who have just been announced to
produce
the 85th Academy Awards®, will be receiving the Visionary Award in
recognition of their contribution to LGBT arts and media visibility.
Glee
star Darren Criss, who starred in Zadan and Meron's Broadway production
of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will present the
award to them.
The
Legacy Awards serve as a fundraiser for the Outfest Legacy Project for
LGBT Film Preservation, which is a collaboration between Outfest and the
UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the only program in the world
devoted to saving and preserving LGBT moving images.
“Thanks
to Craig and Neil's exceptional work in movies, television and on
stage, they have given a loud and clear voice to LGBT characters
that reaches the widest possible audience,” says Kirsten Schaffer,
Executive Director of Outfest. “We are very proud to honor two friends
and longtime supporters of Outfest and are grateful for their profound
impact on the LGBT community.”
"We
are honored and humbled to receive the Visionary Award from an
organization as important and crucial as Outfest. We hope we can help
spread the
word that the community needs to embrace and support this outstanding
group, that does so much to enrich the art and the lives of LGBT people
everywhere," says Zadan and Meron.
As
previously announced, Bruce Cohen (Milk), Nina Jacobson (The Hunger
Games) and Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-Men) will co-chair this
year’s
event.
The
centerpiece screening at the 2012 awards will feature a special Sneak
Preview screening of the Legacy Project’s most challenging restoration
to date. The silent film DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS (ANDERS ALS DIE
ANDERN), made in 1919, is arguably the earliest surviving cinematic work
made explicitly about LGBT people. Directed by Richard Oswald and
co-written by famed psychologist Magnus Hirschfeld,
it is believed to be the only film from a group of gay-friendly movies
made during Germany’s Weimar era that escaped systematic destruction by
the Nazis.
Outfest
and the UCLA Film & Television Archive partnered in 2005 to create
the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. The only program
of its kind in the world, the Outfest Legacy Project is aimed at the
growing crisis in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender moving image
archiving. Many of the landmark LGBT films produced over the last 30
years are already in danger of fading away; their
original exhibition prints are in tatters and their negatives are in
woeful storage conditions, or even lost. Celebrating its seventh
anniversary, the Outfest Legacy Project is proud to have collected over
20,000 moving picture images for the collection and
restored 18 films.
Tickets go on sale on Now. To purchase and for further information, please visit
www.outfest.org or call 213-480-7088.
The Legacy Awards are presented by Northern Trust and Showtime.
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