US actress Glenn Close has withdrawn from her role as jury president of this week’s San Sebastian Film Festival, due to a ‘family emergency’.
Argentinian producer Matias Mosteirin, already a jury member, will take over Close’s role, with no replacement jury member incoming.
A statement issued by the festival said Close “conveyed to the Festival her regrets for not being able to attend a duty to which she felt very committed.”
It also relayed a message from Close, who said, “I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the Festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home. I apologize to the Festival, the Jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”
Mosteirin is managing director at Buenos Aires-based K&S Films, and has producer credits on Fernando Meirelles’ Oscar-nominated The Two Popes, Gonzalo Tobal’s The Accused and Damian Szifron’s Wild Tales.
His fellow jurors are casting director Antoinette Boulat from France; filmmakers Tea Lindeburg from Denmark, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese from Lesotho and Hlynur Palmason from Iceland; and author and journalist Rosa Montero from Spain.
Close had posted a video on social media just last week saying how much she was looking forward to coming to San Sebastian, as “a new adventure I’ve never done before.”
San Sebastian gets underway on Friday, September 16, running until September 24.
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