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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Mar 24, 2015 23:54:40 GMT -6
deadline.com/2015/03/cannes-sidebar-sets-jury-bbc-two-orders-pair-of-election-themed-shows-global-briefs-1201397941/The 54th Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar has named Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz as jury president. Elkabetz co-helmed this year’s Golden Globe nominee Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem with 2014 Variety Screening Series - "Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem" Screeningher brother Shlomi. It ran last year in Directors’ Fortnight. Elkabetz’s jury will include director Katell Quillévéré, cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, Toronto Film Fest programmer Andréa Picard and journalist Boyd van Hoeij. The panel will award the Nespresso Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award for feature films and the Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize for short films. Elkabetz came to international attention in 2004 when she starred in Keren Yedea’s Or, which ran in Critics’ Week that year and won the festival’s Camera d’Or. She has also featured in films by André Téchiné and lauded 2007 film The Band’s Visit. As a director, Elkabetz opened Critics’ Week with 7 Days in 2008. That film was the second in a trilogy that began with To Take A Wife in 2004 and concluded with 2014’s Gett. Critics’ Week runs May 14-22.
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