At the Toronto International Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporte r honored the filmmakers behind Train Dreams with the inaugural Trailblazer Award for Excellence in Sustainable Storytelling. The award, which recognizes visionary creators who illuminate our changing world, was presented to Bentley and Edgerton by Sam Read, the executive director of the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance.

Train Dreams, based on the Pulitzer finalist from author Denis Johnson, follows Robert Grainier (played onscreen by Joel Edgerton), a laborer in Idaho and Washington State, as he quietly works on the area’s burgeoning train system and later its logging operations. The film, which takes place from the end of Westward expansion through the 1960s, takes a look at the human toll on the natural worl

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