Pioneering U.S. casting director Bonnie Timmermann — known for changing the face of Hollywood film and television by imposing diversity and discovering a multitude of talents — will be honored by Italy’s Biografilm Festival , the unique event billed as a cinematic celebration of human lives. In the mid 1980s, Timmermann broke new ground with the diverse range of actors she cast in the Michael Mann-directed TV series “Miami Vice” and later worked with Mann on “Manhunter,” “Heat” and “The Insider.

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