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  • Jury of 15th Mumbai Film Festival announced

    Jury of 15th Mumbai Film Festival announced

    MUMBAI: As the buzz builds up to the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival, the just-announced list of jury members has raised expectations even further. Featuring a heady mix of some of the finest film makers, actors and connoisseurs, the fest is set to be bigger come October.

    Heading the International Competition jury as the president will be director Bruce Beresford, whose 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award for the Best Film. He was also nominated for Best Director in 1984 for Tender Mercies. This jury also boasts of more world class talents in the French actress Nathalie Baye, multi-faceted artist who has worked with the likes of Godard and Truffaut. There is Masato Harada too, renowned Japanese actor – director of The Last Samurai fame and India’s own Konkana Sen Sharma, who’s given memorable performances in films such as Mr and Mrs Iyer and Omkara.

    The India Gold 2013 Competition section jury is equally eminent, with the Academy Award winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi heading the Jury panel as president. By his side will be the man behind the acclaimed film Osama (2004) which won him an Academy award nomination, Siddiq Barmark. More names on this list include acclaimed British actor/director Waris Hussein of Doctor Who and Passage to India fame, Jill Bilcock (Australian Film Editor and Academy Award nominee for Moulin Rouge) and Roger Garcia, the executive director of the prestigious Hong Kong International Film Festival, film critic and an authority on Asian Cinema.

    Announcing this impressive jury list, Mumbai Film Festival director Srinivasan Narayan said, “The jury is the core of every film fest and we have a proud legacy of having eminent personalities on our jury every year. This year too we’re welcoming some very accomplished names, all masters in their fields. I can’t wait for October!”

    The 15th Mumbai Film Festival will take place from the 17-24 October 2013. This year’s edition will be held at Metro Cinema and Liberty Cinemas as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri (West) as the satellite venue.

  • Un Certain regard unveiled its President of the Jury and Opening film

    Un Certain regard unveiled its President of the Jury and Opening film

    THOMAS VINTERBERG, PRESIDENT OH THE JURY

    Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection.

    Born in Copenhagen in May 1969, Thomas Vinterberg received his training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993 as the school’s youngest student.

    His first short films Last Round (Sidste Omgang, 1993) and Drengen der gik bagl?ns (Le garçon qui marchait ? reculons, 1995) won awards at a number of festivals.

    In 1995, he partnered with Lars Von Trier and other artists to create Dogme95, a cinematographic movement that aimed to return to formal austerity in film making.

    In 1998, when he was discovered by the public at large with his feature film The Celebration (Festen), he received the Festival de Cannes Jury Prize from the President of the Jury, Martin Scorsese. One year later, he returned to the Croisette to preside over the Short Film Jury.

    In 2012, for the 65th edition of the Festival, he presented Jagten (The Hunt), which created a stir and for which lead actor Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award.

    Considered as a young prodigy by the profession as a whole, the artistic range of Thomas Vinterberg is not limited only to film. He also made the video clip of the song "The Day That Never Comes" from the album Death Magnetic by the group Metallica.

    He will succeed Tim Roth, last year’s President of the jury that awarded the top prize to the Mexican film After Lucia (Despues de Lucia), directed by Michel Franco.

    The Prix Un Certain Regard will be awarded on Saturday 25 May, the day before the Closing Ceremony of the Festival.

    THE BLING RING BY SOFIA COPPOLA : OPENING FILM

    The screening of The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola, with Emma Watson in the title role, Ta?ssa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst, will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday 16 May.

    Inspired by a true story, The Bling Ring recounts a group of adolescents who are fascinated by “beautiful people” and the world of brands, tracking the whereabouts and activities of celebrities online so that they can rob their homes. They steal over three million dollars of luxury items: jewellery, clothing, shoes, etc. Among their victims are Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson. The media nicknamed this gang the “Bling Ring”.

    An American director, actress, producer and screenwriter, Sofia Coppola lives in Paris.

    Her first films Lick The Star (1996), Virgin Suicides (1999) and Lost in Translation (2003), were very well received by critics and audiences, who recognized the authentic character of an auteur from her very first works. In 2005 she received the César for best foreign film for Lost in translation, which had already won an Oscar for best original script.

    Sofia Coppola said, "I am happy to come back to the Festival de Cannes. Marie-Antoinette was in competition in 2006, I presented my first film Virgin Suicides at the Directors’ Fortnight and I am very proud now to open Un Certain Regard with my new film that will be screened for the first time before an audience. I can’t wait to be there…"

    The Bling Ring will open in cinemas in France and around the world in June 2013.

  • Jury selected for Made In Germany Young Filmmaker Prize

    Jury selected for Made In Germany Young Filmmaker Prize

    MUMBAI: Germany – Award-winning German director Hans-Christian Schmid ( of the Home for the Weekend fame), actress Nicolette Krebitz (who starred in Bandits) and producer Heino Deckert (In The Fog) have been selected to form the jury for the 2013 Made in Germany – Perspective Fellowship honour. The award includes $20,000 (€15,000) fellowship and is given to an up-and-coming German filmmaker to help them complete their next film.
    The jury will pick next year‘s winner from the lineup of this year‘s Perspektive Deutsches Kino – the Berlin Film Festival‘s German cinema sidebar.
    The award was inaugurated last year and was won by director and screenwriter Annekatrin Hendel for her documentary Vaterlandsverraeter. Hendel has just completed her script for Disko (Disco), a documentary about the 1986 terrorist bombing of a West Berlin disco frequented by U.S. soldiers. Hendel is developing the prohject in collaboration with public broadcaster RBB and is expected to go into production by late 2013.
    The Made in Germany fellowship is backed by German watchmaker Glashutte Original.