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VENICE 2015 Juries

The three international juries of the 72nd Venice Film Festival

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- Awarding the Golden Lions with the president, Cuarón, will be Emmanuel Carrère, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pawel Pawlikowski, Francesco Munzi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Diane Kruger, Lynne Ramsay, and Elizabeth Banks

The three international juries of the 72nd Venice Film Festival
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The 72nd Venice International Film Festival (2 –12 September) has announced the members of the three international juries of the Venezia 72, Orizzonti and "Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award for Best Debut Film sections.

Sitting on the Jury of the Venezia 72 competition, in addition to the president Alfonso Cuarón,will be French writer, screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrère, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won the Palme d'or at Cannes in 2014 with Winter Sleep [+see also:
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, Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, (whose film Ida [+see also:
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won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015), Italian director Francesco Munzi (who competed at Venice in 2014 with Black Souls [+see also:
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, the winner of 9 David di Donatello awards in 2015), Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, who won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1989 with A City of Sadness, and the Best Director award at Cannes in 2015 with The Assassin), German actress Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds [+see also:
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),
British director and screenwriter Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin [+see also:
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), and American actress and director Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2).

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Accompanying the president Jonathan Demme on the Orizzonti Jury will be French director and screenwriter Alix Delaporte, who competed at Venice in 2014 with The Last Hammer Blow [+see also:
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, with which Romain Paul won the "Marcello Mastroianni" prize, Spanish actress Paz Vega, famous for Sex and Lucia [+see also:
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by Julio Medem, Hong Kong-born director Fruit Chan, who has competed twice at Venice, once with Durian Durian (2000) and once with Hollywood, Hong Kong (2001), and Italian actress Anita Caprioli, who starred in Alice Rohrwacher’s Heavenly Body [+see also:
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(2011). 

The "Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award for Best Debut Film – the Lion of the Future, will be awarded by jury president Saverio Costanzo together with producer Roger Garcia, who has been the executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival since 2010, French critic and film industry expert Natacha Laurent, independent American director Charles Burnett, and Mexican journalist Daniela Michel, the founder and director of the Morelia Film Festival since 2003.

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(Translated from Italian)

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