Oliver Stone to make guest appearance at St Petersburg film festival

US director Oliver Stone best known for hard-hitting political films will be a special guest at this year’s International Film Festival in St Petersburg. The festival will feature a retrospective of Stone’s work, screening five films in total. Stone has won Academy Awards for his films Midnight Express, Platoon and Born of the Fourth of July all of which he either directed, wrote screenplays for or both.

The festival made headlines this month after Wentworth Miller, star of TV series Prison Break, announced he would boycott the event to protest against the federal law against “homosexual propaganda”.

The festival was relaunched last year with the aim of encouraging cultural exchange between filmmakers of different nationalities. This year, the festival will open with Jobs, a biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The festival will run from 13 to 22 September.