Palm Springs to recognition Chastain, Shoreline

Thesp Jessica Chastain and composer Howard Shoreline would be the final inclusions in the slate of honorees for that 23rd Palm Springs Film Festival. Both is going to be recognized in a Jan. 7 gala in the Palm Springs Convention Center. Chastain caught the interest of fest coordinators this season on her roles in "The Assistance,Inch "The Tree of Existence" and "Take Shelter." "Through a number of virtuoso performances, Jessica Chastain has built herself among the cinema's most versatile and many desired youthful stars," stated festival chairman Harold Matzner. Shoreline will require home the Ernest Loewe Award for Film Creating for his focus on "Hugo." The composer won exactly the same award in 2005 for "The Aviator," also directed by Martin Scorsese. "The labyrinthine setting of the Paris railway station, in which a youthful boy lives alone, doing what he or she must to outlive, and also the discovery of the aging filmmaker gifted having a second chance supply the perfect inspiration for Shore's haunting score," Matzner stated. The fest runs Jan. 5-16. Chastain and Shoreline join formerly introduced honorees George Clooney, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman, Kaira Pitt, Octavia Spencer and Michelle Williams helmers Stephen Daldry and Michel Hazanavicius and also the film "Youthful Adult." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com