American actress Julianne Moore will chair the international jury of the Venice Film Festival, scheduled for September, in Italy, the organization announced on Friday.
The 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival will take place from August 31 to September 10 and the international jury will decide on the official selection awards, namely the Golden Lion for Best Film, the Silver Lion for Best Director, the grand prize or the Coppa Volpi for best representation.
Julianne Moore will chair a jury that will also include the Anglo-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Argentine director Mariano Cohn, the Italian Leonardo di Constanzo, the French director Andrey Diwan, the Iranian actress Leila Hatami and the director Spanish Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
Julianne Moore, 61, has won a number of international awards, in a career primarily in film since the 1980s.
In Venice, she won the award for best actress and the audience award for her performance in the film “Far from paradise” (200), by Todd Haynes.
From this year’s edition of the Venice Film Festival, it is known that two lifetime achievement awards -Golden Lion- will be awarded to American director Paul Schrader and French actress Catherine Deneuve.
Source: Observadora
