Alfonso Cuarón Honored with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award At The 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala

Alfonso Cuaron will be honored with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award on January 3 at the Awards Gala for the 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Festival Chairman Harold Matzner said, “Alfonso Cuarón’s latest feature Roma is a masterful achievement in filmmaking. Drawing upon his childhood memories, Cuarón has created an emotionally driven story about a family growing up in 1970s Mexico City. A film he not only directed, but also was a writer, producer, cinematographer and editor. For his ability to take on many roles and for his expert storytelling of this subject matter, the festival is proud to present Alfonso Cuarón with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award.”

Roma, an exquisite masterpiece, follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in Mexico City’s middleclass Roma neighborhood. Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst Mexico’s political turmoil of the 1970s. The film is Cuaron’s most personal project to date.

Cuaron most recently won an Oscar for Gravity and has directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien.