Alec Baldwin’s Western film “Rust” is poised to make its world premiere next month, three years after the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin, 66, was both an actor and a producer in the indie film, which will debut at the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival in Toruń, Poland, on Nov. 23.
According to the annual festival, the film’s screening will pay tribute to the 42-year-old cinematographer, who was killed on Oct. 21, 2021, after a prop firearm held by Baldwin discharged a live round during a scene rehearsal at a church near Santa Fe, New Mexico. “After the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins, a Ukrainian cinematographer who was part of the festival family, Camerimage is set to honour her memory and remind the world of her legacy,” the festival shared in a statement published on its website on Oct.
3. Following the screening, Joel Souza, the film’s director, will take part in a panel discussion alongside cinematographers Bianca Cline and Stephen Lighthill, the latter of whom mentored Hutchins during her studies at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Souza, 51, was also wounded during the on-set shooting after a bullet—believed to be the same one that killed Hutchins—struck his shoulder.
During the panel, Souza and the two other filmmakers will touch on the “events surrounding the film” and offer insight into their decision to continue production after Hutchins’s tragic death. “Maintaining Hutchins’ art.