26/07/2024 - The English filmmaker will lead the jury made of ten former 27 Times Cinema project participants, who will choose the film they think deserves the GdA Director’s Award

Joanna Hogg will chair the jury of the 21st edition of the Giornate degli Autori, during the 81st Venice Film Festival (28 August - 7 September). The English filmmaker, director of international hits like The Souvenir [+see also:
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“What could be more fun and stimulating than watching films and sharing ideas with a jury of young film professionals who are above all cinephiles” observed Joanna Hogg, “I thank the Giornate degli Autori for inviting me to what I anticipate will be days of joyful and inspiring discussions about cinema and its possibilities.”

“Over the course of her film career, Hogg has probed the human soul, family dynamics, and romantic attachments with great psychological depth, accuracy and a rare authenticity,” says Giornate artistic director Gaia Furrer. “Her cinema is implosive – the very word used by Martin Scorsese, who produced Hogg’s last three films, to describe the way her films often bring inconvenient and even unspeakable truths to light.”

“The president’s own story, and the passion she will inject into our tenth anniversary jury,” declares general delegate Giorgio Gosetti, “goes hand in hand with the enthusiasm of the ten other jurors, eager to return to Giornate degli Autori. Their first time around, they were budding cinephiles, many of whom had never even been to a major festival. They return in 2024 as rising young professionals in a variety of areas that make up the 'film machine'.”

The president and her ten-strong “team” will choose the winner of the GdA Director’s Award, which carries a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the director and the international distributor, who commits to using the sum received to promote the film. As is tradition, the jury sessions will be coordinated by Karel Och, Artistic Director of the Karlovy Vary Festival.

(Translated from Italian)