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Venezia: The members of the Juries
Venezia 70 (Competition)
The members of the international Jury of Venezia 70 are:
· Bernardo Bertolucci (president) is the most active Italian director in the world and one of the most influential in the history of cinema. At the Venice Film Festival, he has presented La commare secca (The Grim Reaper), Partner, Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem), La luna (Luna), and The Dreamers. He won the Golden Lion of the 75th Festival in 2007, and was president of the Jury for the Competition back in 1983. He won 9 Oscars for The Last Emperor (1987).
· Andrea Arnold, English director and screenwriter, won an the Oscar for her short film Wasp in 2005. For her feature-length films Red Road (2006) and Fish Tank (2009), both in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, she won the Jury Prize twice in succession. For Wuthering Heights (2011), in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, she won the Osella for Best Cinematography.
· Renato Berta, of Swiss and French nationality, is considered one of the most important directors of photography of his generation. Throughout his decades-long careers, he has worked with some of the greatest directors in European film, including Godard, Malle, de Oliveira, Resnais, and Tanner. He won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography in 2012 for Noi credevamo (We Believed), in Competition in Venice.
· Martina Gedeck, German actress, was nominated in 2002 at the European Film Awards for Mostly Martha and in 2007 for The Lives of Others. Her films have been selected twice for the Golden Globes and for the Oscars. In 2007 The Lives of Others, in which she starred, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In 2009 she starred in another film that was nominated for the Oscars, The Baader Meinhof Complex.
· Pablo Larraìn, Chilean director, screenwriter and producer. His second film, Tony Manero (2007), received great acclaim at the Quinzaine in Cannes and won the top prize at the Torino Film Festival. His next film Post mortem was screened in Competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival, to excellent press reviews. In 2012 he participated again in the Quinzaine with No, which went on to win one of five nominations for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars in 2013.
· Virginie Ledoyen, French actress. In 2002 François Ozon included her in the group of great French actresses for 8 femmes (8 Women), for which she shared the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival, and the European Film Award. In 2000 she acted alongside Leonardo Di Caprio in The Beach by Danny Boyle. She has been nominated three times for a César award. In 2012 she starred in Les adieux à la reine by Benoît Jacquot.
· Ryuichi Sakamoto, the celebrated Japanese composer, musician and producer. Following his early pioneering musical compositions with the Yellow Magic Orchestra, he recorded rock albums, composed classical music and over thirty film soundtracks, winning an Oscar for The Last Emperor (1987), and two Golden Globes (The Last Emperor,1987; The Sheltering Sky, 1990). He also wrote the soundtrack for Furyo (1983) by Nagisa Oshima, which will be shown in Venezia Classici.
· Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, screenwriter and director. As a director, he belongs to the so-called “Sixth Generation” which emerged in the 1990’s. As an actor, he won international recognition after his appearance alongside Gong Li inRed Sorghum (1987), by Zhang Yimou. In 1994 he won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor in the film he himself directed –Yangguang canlan de rizi (In the Heat of the Sun, 1994).
· one Jury member to be announced
The Jury will award the following prizes for feature-length films, with no joint awards allowed (except for the Coppa Volpi and Mastroianni Awards):
· Golden Lion for Best Film
· Silver Lion for Best Director
· Grand Jury Prize (new award)
· Special Jury Prize
· Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
· Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
· Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
· Award for Best Screenplay
Orizzonti
The members of the international Jury of the Orizzonti section are:
· Paul Schrader (president), one of the most important filmmakers of the New Hollywood, is the director of Blue Collar (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima (1985), Affliction (1997, presented in the Venezia Mezzanotte section). He wrote the screenplay for Yakuza (1974) by Sidney Pollack, Obsession (1976) by Brian De Palma, and Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Bringing Out the Dead(1999) by Martin Scorsese.
· Catherine Corsini, French director, in 2000 directed La Répétition (Replay), with Emmanuelle Béart and Pascale Bussières, in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. After Les Ambitieux (Ambitious, 2006), she participated in the Toronto Film Festival in 2009 with Partir (Leaving), starring Kristin Scott-Thomas, Sergi Lopez and Yvan Attal. Trois Mondes (Three Worlds, 2011) starring Raphael Personnaz, Clotilde Hesme and Arta Dobroshi, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section in 2012.
· Leonardo Di Costanzo, Italian director, is one of the greatest and most esteemed documentary filmmakers in Italy. In 2012, in the Venezia Orizzonti section, he presented L’intervallo, his first feature-length fiction film. It was a revelation that won great critical acclaim, along with the Fipresci and Pasinetti awards. In the wake of Venice, Di Costanzo presented the film at many other film festivals and won the David di Donatello for Best Debut Director.
· Frederic Fonteyne, Belgian director, has often participated in the Venice Film Festival. For his second film, Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love), in Competition in 1999, Nathalie Baye won the Coppa Volpi as Best Actress.La femme de Gilles (Gilles’ Wife, 2004) was invited to the Venice Film Festival, where it won the CICAE prize. His fourth film, Tango Libre (2012), won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
· Ksenia Rappoport, one of the most famous Russian film and theatre actresses, won the David di Donatello 2007 as best actress for La sconosciuta (The Unknown Woman) by Giuseppe Tornatore, and at the Venice Film Festival the Coppa Volpi as Best Actress for La doppia ora (The Double Hour, 2009) by Giuseppe Capotondi. In 2008 she hosted the opening and closing ceremonies at the Venice Film Festival. In 2013 she was awarded the Stanislavsky Prize at the Moscow Film Festival.
· Amr Waked is one of the most famous Egyptian actors on the international scene. He starred in Syriana (2005) with George Clooney, and won many awards for his performance. He also starred in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) by Lasse Hallström, and had roles in numerous films presented in Venice, including Winter of Discontent (2012) by Ibrahim El-Batout, Contagion (2009) by Steven Soderbergh, Al Mosafer (2009) by Ahmed Maher.
· Golshifteh Farahani is a young Iranian actress, the daughter of Behzad Farahani, theatre actor and director. She made her debut on the set at the age of six, and at fourteen she starred in The Pear Tree (1998) by Dariush Mehrjui. Since then she has acted in more than fifteen films. She starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in Body of Lies (2008) by Ridley Scott, thereby becoming the first Iranian actress to appear in an important American production.
The Jury will award the following prizes, with no joint awards allowed:
· Orizzonti Award for Best Film
· Orizzonti Award for Best Director (new award)
· Special Orizzonti Jury Prize
· Special Orizzonti Prize for Innovative Content (new award)
· Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film
“Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film
The members of the international Jury of the Venice Award for a Debut Film are:
· Haifaa Al Mansour (president), is the first woman director in Saudi Arabia and is considered one of the most significant figures in the cinema of her country. Her debut feature-length film, Wadjda, the first film shot in Saudi Arabia, was launched at the Venice Film Festival 2012 in the Orizzonti section to great critical acclaim, and is enjoying growing prestige thanks to enthusiastic audiences, and the many international awards it has won.
· Alexey German Jr., Russian director. His first feature-length film Posledny poezd (2003), won a Special Mention from the Jury of the Lion for the Future at the Venice Film Festival. The Russian Film Academy awarded him a prize as the Best New Director. His next film, Garpastum, participated in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2005. He later won the Silver Lion and the Osella for Best Cinematography in 2008 for Bumazhnyy soldat (Paper Soldier). In 2011 he presented the short film Iz Tokyo.
· Geoffrey Gilmore, from the United States, has been the creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises since 2009 and is responsible for the Tribeca Film Festival. He contributed to the development of the Tribeca distribution platform, Tribeca Film. He comes from the Sundance Institute, where he was Director of the Sundance Film Festival, responsible from 1990 to 2009 for the selection of the films and for the overall artistic direction.
· Ariane Labed, French actress, won the Coppa Volpi for Attenberg (2010) by Athina Rachel Tsangari, in competition at the Venice Film Festival. She later acted in many internationally-produced films, including Alps (2011) by Yorgos Lanthimos, presented at the Venice Film Festival and winner of an Osella for Best Screenplay, and Before Midnight(2013) by Richard Linklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
· Razvan Radulescu is a Romanian author, screenwriter and director. As a screenwriter he has worked with many film directors in his country, including: Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Radu Muntean, Calin Netzer. He was a consultant for the screenplay of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Golden Palm at Cannes, 2007) by Cristian Mungiu and for The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaucescu (2011) by Andrei Ujica. He was a co-director of First of All Felicia with Melissa de Raaf and is now working on his second film.
· Maria Sole Tognazzi, Italian director. Her first film Passato prossimo (Past Perfect, 2003) won a Silver Ribbon and a Globo d’oro as Best New Director. Her film L’Uomo che ama (The Man Who Loves) was the opening film of the Rome Film Festival in 2008. Ritratto di mio padre won a Silver Ribbon. Her recent Viaggio sola (2013) was nominated for five David di Donatello and six Silver Ribbon awards, and won the David di Donatello and the Ciak d’Oro 2013 for Best Actress for Margherita Buy and the Silver Ribbon 2013 for Best Comedy.
· one Jury member to be announced.
The Jury will award, with no joint awards allowed and making the selection among all the debut feature-length films in the various competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival (Official selection and Independent Parallel Sections), theLion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film, with a cash prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis, which will be split in equal parts between the director and the producer.
The independent and parallel sidebarsof the official selection at the 70th Venice International Film Festival are:
Settimana Internazionale della Critica (SIC - International Critics’ Week)
A series of 8 films – debut works – independently organized by a commission nominated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) in accordance with its own regulations.
Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days)
Independent section promoted by the Italian Association of Film-makers (ANAC - Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici) and by 100 Autori in accordance with their own regulation.
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