The full International Jury for the 81st Venice Film Festival has been announced: italian director and screenwriter Giuseppe Tornatore; American director and screenwriter James Gray; British director and screenwriter Andrew Haigh; Polish director, screenwriter and producer Agnieszka Holland; Brazilian director and screenwriter Kleber Mendonça Filho; Mauritanian director, screenwriter and producer Abderrahmane Sissako; German director and screenwriter Julia von Heinz; and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.
The President of the Jury, announced on 8 May, is French actress Isabelle Huppert. The actress has collected several awards in Venice during her long career: in 1978 she won the Best Actress Award in Cannes for the film Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol. With the same director she worked in seven other films and won two Coppe Volpi at the Venice Film Festival with Un affare di donne (1988) and La cérémonie – Il buio nella mente (1995). In 2005 she was awarded a special Golden Lion in Venice for her complex work for Patrice Chéreau’s Gabrielle.
The International Jury will have the role of awarding the most important prizes of the Festival, including the Golden Lion for Best Film, which will be announced on Saturday 7 September on the stage of the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema on the Venice Lido.
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