Lucrecia Martel announced as jury head of Venice Film Festival
Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has been announced as the jury president of the 2019 Venice Film Festival.The director has become the seventh woman to preside over the jury in the festival’s 76-year-long history. Previously, actor Annette Bening served as the jury head at the 2017 edition of the film extravaganza.”It’s an honour, a responsibility, and a pleasure to be a part of this celebration of cinema, of humanity’s immense desire to understand itself,” Martel said in a statement.Martel will head the jury that awards the festival’s coveted Golden and Silver Lions.…
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