From writer, director and producer Sean Penn – as well as editor and AFI Alum Jay Cassidy (AFI Class of 1976) – INTO THE WILD (2007) was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2007, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “INTO THE WILD is a vast journey across America — and deep inside oneself. Writer/director Sean Penn’s sensitive adaptation and expansive direction brilliantly captures the exuberance and idealism of youth — and the danger of pushing love away. The story lives in the eyes of Emile Hirsch, the warm smile of Catherine Keener, and the luminous spirit of Hal Holbrook. INTO THE WILD celebrates the dreamer in all of us — and the danger of dreaming alone.”
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