Veteran director, writer, producer and actor Werner Herzog will receive a Donostia Award in recognition of his career during the opening gala of the San Sebastián Festival (September 18-26). The festival’s highest honorary distinction for the German filmmaker will be accompanied by a screening of his new feature, Bucking Fastard, which will launch at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The Donostia Award Screening will take place at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre prior to the award ceremony at the Kursaal. Watch on DeadlineBorn in Munich in 1942, he grew up as a child in a remote valley in the Bavarian mountains. He made his first phone call at age 17 and his first film at 19.