The Tortured Rust Will Finally Premiere at a Polish Film Festival

Rust is finally seeing the light of day, even as the aftershocks of Halyna Hutchins’s on-set death reverberate. The movie will premiere at Poland’s Camerimage International Film Festival, accompanied by a panel dedicated to Hutchins. Alec Baldwin, whose gun fired and killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza, is not scheduled to appear at the festival. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s on-set armorer, was denied a new trial on October 1 following’s the dismissal of Baldwin’s trial in July.

The festival’s post-screening panel will feature Souza; Bianca Cline, the cinematographer who finished the film in Hutchins’s absence; and Hutchins’s film school mentor, Stephen Lighthill. It will discuss Hutchins’s artistic style, the challenges of continuing her style after her death, and larger, systemic issues in the film industry, including the challenges of female cinematographers and on-set safety. 

The Camerimage festival specifically celebrates cinematography. “We knew that our event was important to [Hutchins], 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. The festival runs from November 16 through November 23, 2024.