Screen International's correspondent and film reviewer, Dan Fainaru will be one of three jurors at the Critics' Week sidebar of the forthcoming Venice Film Festival.

Fainaru, who is FIPRESCI luminary, will join veteran Italian writer-director Carlo Lizzani, whose directing credits include The Last Days Of Mussolini (1974) and actress and director Julie Delpy. Her credits include Three Colours Red and LA Without A Map.

The jury will decide among the seven competing features which include Une Liaison Pornographique-director Philippe Blasbant's An Honest Shopkeeper, Dylan Kidd's Rodger Dodger and Italy's Two Friends by Sipro Scipione and Francesco Sframelli.

The winner will take home a $10,000 prize sponsored by Cni-Cult Network Italia.