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Vancouver Island native and Hollywood star, Barry Pepper, returns to the Victoria Film Festival with his newest film Like Dandelion Dust.
Barry Pepper will be in attendance to provide insights into his experiences with the film. Born on Vancouver Island in Campbell River and graduating from George P. Vanier High School in Courtney, Barry is a star Vancouver Islanders can call their own. In Like Dandelion Dust, Pepper plays a character that goes through therapy for alcoholism and anger management and while in prison he trains himself physically and spiritually in order to be reunited with his wife and they then look to reunite with their son she had put up for adoption. Being a father of a nine-year old daughter himself, he was deeply moved by the emotionally provocative material. "You'd have to have ice in your veins not to be moved by this story," Pepper says. "It doesn't allow you to turn away from the honesty of the situation." Starting his career in 1992, Pepper obtained his breakthrough role as a Bible-quoting sniper in Steven Spielberg's WW II drama Saving Private Ryan in 1998. With the success of the film came sudden stardom for its cast, including Barry. There were photo spreads, interviews and even some Oscar buzz. His career has been in an upward spiral since. We are very excited Barry Pepper has agreed to join us.
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