DALLAS International Film Festival has announced today that Amber Heard will be receiving their first ever Shining Star Award, created “with an eye toward celebrating actors, filmmakers and film artists who have delivered exceptional performances or works on film in their brief careers as well as exhibiting the potential for greater achievements to come.” The River Why will see its world premiere at the festival while The Joneses will also be screened. Congratulations to Amber for the great honor!

Here’s what they had to say about Amber:

Heard will receive the DALLAS Shining Star Award prior to the screening of her film The Joneses on Saturday, April 10 at The Angelika Film Center. The award was created with an eye toward celebrating actors, filmmakers and film artists who have delivered exceptional performances or works on film in their brief careers as well as exhibiting the potential for greater achievements to come. Heard will be seen in two films screening at DALLAS IFF: Derrick Borte’s The Joneses and Matthew Leutwyler’s The River Why.

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The Dallas International Film Festival will host the world premiere of Matthew Leuwyler’s The River Why. The festival runs April 8-18, 2010.

Directed by Matthew Leutwyler, The River Why is a drama based on the novel by David James Duncan about a man known as “the Mozart of fly fishing” who leaves his big city home in rebellion from his family. In the process he comes in contact with an assortment of eccentric characters who help him in his journey to adulthood. The film stars Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan and William Devane.

Source: Alt Film Guild

Martin came across the official site of The River Why, which contains interesting information and beautiful images from the upcoming movie. Please be sure to check it out. The Green Report is especially a fascinating read for anyone interested in both films as well as the environment.

This Environmental Report is a report of Steel Head Films, LLC and their production, The River Why. The film was primarily shot in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2008. It was implemented to investigate and implement green practices on set and identify was in which waste management and water systems could be implemented on rural locations…
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I’ve added the photos of Amber as Eddy in our gallery.

“It’s a challenge to focus on your lines in 50-degree water, but there’s something to be said for the extra adrenaline.” – Amber Heard

What a great way to kick off the new year – Miss Heard is featured inside the February 2009 issue of Outside magazine. The piece focuses on The River Why, which is currently in post-production, and offers our first look at the movie. Tona kindly scanned the magazine for us. Enjoy this rare treat!

Things are a little quiet in the Amber world at the moment as she is taking a well deserved rest from the spotlight. The River Why has wrapped filming and is currently in post-production. The Informers and Ex-terminators do not have release dates yet but The Stepfather will be out in the US on October 16, 2009.

A YouTube user has uploaded a trailer for one of Amber’s early, rare films, called Price to Pay. Check it out under the cut… Amber looks uber gorgeous! Hopefully this one will be available on DVD sometime soon!

Ambush Entertainment is starting production on its ninth low-budget film: William Hurt starrer The River Why, an adaptation of the Sierra Club’s first book.

Ambush partner Matthew Leutwyler directs. Kristi Denton Cohen of Peloton Prods. will produce.

Based on the 1984 David James Duncan coming-of-age novel, The River Why also stars Zach Gilford as a fisherman who abandons his big-city family to find himself in the wild.

Amber Heard, Kathleen Quinlan and Dallas Roberts also star.

Ambush partner Miranda Bailey is exec producing along with Charles Mastropietro of D/F Management and Thomas A. Cohen, who co-wrote with John Jay Osborn Jr.

Leutwyler also produces with Kristi Denton Cohen of Peloton Prods.

Pic begins lensing in Portland, Ore., this month.

William Hurt and Amber Heard have joined Zach Gilford in The River Why, an adaptation of the 1983 Sierra Club novel by David James Duncan. Matt Leutwyler is directing.

The coming-of-age tale centers on a young man named Gus Orviston (Gilford) and his quest for an elusive rainbow trout, which is a metaphor for the man’s internal search for self-knowledge.

Hurt is Gus’ father, while Heard is his love interest, a tomboy fly-fisher.

Thomas A. Cohen and John Hay Osborn Jr. wrote the adaptation. Kristi Denton Cohen is producing. Lensing begins in early July in Oregon.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter