This year, the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival will honor actor Adam Beach with the Rising Star Award for his performance in “Flags of Our Fathers”.? In early October, The Film Society held its annual pre-festival event at the historic Beverly Hills home of Patricia Barry, once owned by screen legend Charlie Chaplin. The event was held to announce the honorees of the 2007 Film Festival Awards Gala. Festival Chairman Earl Greenberg announced that they will award actor Adam Beach with the prestigious award (read the story here). Last year?s Festival honored David Cronenberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Felicity Huffman, Michael London, Shirley MacLaine, Thomas Newman and Charlize Theron.

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Beach stars along with Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Barry Pepper and Paul Walker in “Flags of Our Fathers”, a human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo Jima.? Two-time Academy Award?-winning director Clint Eastwood focuses equally on the war and home, crosscutting between the viciousness of the battle and the manufactured propaganda campaign and careful manipulation of the image of ?Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima? the photo that depicts five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi.? DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Malpaso/Amblin Entertainment production, ?Flags of Our Fathers? schedule for release on Friday, October 20, 2006.?

Beach may best be known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals, which won the Filmmaker’s Trophy Award and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.? Beach also starred opposite Nicolas Cage in “Windtalkers”, the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, who spoke their language as a code during World War II.? Beach will next star in ?Moose TV,? a comedy series for Canadian television.? He will also be seen in ?Comanche Moon,? a telefilm based on the Larry McMurtry novel.? Beach?s many studio and independent feature films include “Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale”, “The Big Empty”, “The Art of Woo”, “Posers”, “Last Stop”, “Now and Forever”, “My Indian Summer” (Best Actor In A Feature Film by First Americans In The Arts), “A Boy Called Hate”, “The Adventures of Joe Dirt”, opposite David Spade, and “Mystery, Alaska”.? Beach earned a Best Actor award from the American Indian Film Festival for his role as Frank Fencepost in the screen adaptation of W.P. Kinsella’s “Dance Me Outside”.