Venice Film Festival Adds Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof to Competition Jury
The Venice Film Festival on Friday unveiled this year’s competition jury, the group of film professionals that will pick this year’s Golden Lion for best film at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof, French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé (At War), Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero (Vermiglio), Palme d’Or winning Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Ash Is the Purest White) will all sit on the main jury.
As previously announced, two-time Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, Sideways, Nebraska) will head up the jury as president. Payne has only once screened a film in the Venice competition, with Downsizing debuting on the Lido in 2017.
In addition to the best film Golden Lion, the competition jury selects the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize, Silver Lions for best director, the Coppa Volpi for best actor and best actress, as well as the festival’s best screenplay award, a special jury prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Award, named after the late Italian film icon, for best young actor or actress.
Venice on Friday also unveiled that the Horizons, or Orrizonti, jury will be chaired by French director and screenwriter Julia Ducournau. She will be joined by Italian director and video artist Yuri Ancarani, Argentine film critic Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Australian director Shannon Murphy and U.S. artist and filmmaker RaMell Ross.
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Finally, chaired by Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, the jury of the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film will also include French-Tunisian director and producer Erige Sehiri and Italian director and screenwriter Silvio Soldini.
The 82nd Venice festival runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6.
