18/07/2011

With Carlo Mazzacurati (pictured) as president, acclaimed in Venice last year with La passione [+see also:
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Alongside Mazzacurati will be Russian director and screenwriter Aleksei Fedorchenko (author of Silent Souls, Osella Award and Fipresci at the film festival 2010); American producer Fred Roos (whose previous successes include The Godfather, American Graffiti and Star Wars, as well as Somewhere by Sofia Coppola, Golden Lion in Venice last year); French film critic Charles Tesson, a major figure of the ³Cahiers du cinema²; Turkish actress Serra Yilmaz, the symbolic face of Ferzan Ozpetek¹s films.

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The jury will select one from all the first works competing in the different sections of the festival, for the Lion of the Future Venice Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Debut Film. In recent years, the award has gone to: Le Grand Voyage (2004) by Ismael Ferroukhi, 13-Tzameti [+see also:
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interview: Fanny Saadi
interview: Gela Babluani
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interview: Jessica Woodworth
interview: Jessica Woodworth
film profile] by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (2006), La zona [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)