Cannes finalises jury line-up
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the final lists of jury members for the 62nd edition of the festival.
Indian actress Sharmila Tagore has been added to the main competition jury, which is headed by Isabelle Huppert this year.
The Un Certain Regard jury will be presided over by Paolo Sorrentino along with French actress Julie Gayet, Toronto Festival director Piers Handling, Indian journalist and festival programmer Uma Da Cunha and Marit Kapla of Sweden´s Gotenborg Festival. Bahman Ghobadi´s No One Knows About The Persian Cats will open the sidebar on May 14.
The Camera d’Or jury will be led by Roschdy Zem as its president with cinematographer Diane Baratier, Olivier Chiavassa of France’s Federation des Industries Techniques du Cinema, director Sandrine Ray, critic Charles Tesson and Edouard Waintrop of Switzerland’s Fribourg Festival.
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Pulak Mukherjee | 8-May-2009 6:37 pm
We are proud of you Ms. Tagore and wish you perform you duty perfectly. You have talent from Tollywood as well as Bollywood of Indian cinema, we wish you success.
Pulak Mukherjee,
Vice President,
Eastern India Motion Picture Association,
Kolkata.
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