Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner will function jury president of the jury, or Concorso Internazionale, on the 77th Locarno Movie Competition, organizers stated on Thursday.
She’s going to oversee the jury that decides the winner of the Pardo d’Oro – the Golden Leopard – on the Swiss movie pageant, happening Aug 7-17.
Hausner started her profession briefly movies after finding out on the Movie Academy of Vienna, creating austere and distinctive movies. Locarno was the primary worldwide pageant at which Hausner’s work made an impression, taking dwelling the principle prize within the part Pardi di Domani for the quick Flora in 1997.
She moved to Cannes with Inter-View (1999), her 45-minute commencement movie, and later co-founded the manufacturing firm coop99 which, apart from Hausner’s personal movies and people of the opposite co-founders (Barbara Albert, Antonin Svoboda, and Martin Gschlacht), has additionally gone on to supply movie akin to Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann (2016) and Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020).
Hausner’s first function movies Beautiful Rita (2001) and Lodge (2004) would each premiere in Un Sure Regard at Cannes, adopted by Lourdes (2009), which debuted in competitors on the Venice Movie Competition and took dwelling the FIPRESCI prize.
Her subsequent movies embrace Amour Fou (2014), her English-language debut Little Joe (2019), and final yr’s Membership Zero (2023).
“It’s a nice honor and likewise an incredible pleasure for me to preside over the principle jury of this yr’s Locarno Movie Competition,” stated Hausner. “The accountability I really feel is to respectfully hear the varied opinions of my fellow jury members, as I actually consider that each individual sees a unique movie and that each perspective is attention-grabbing to debate. For me, Locarno is a pageant that values creative and authentic approaches in filmmaking and thus reinforces the avant-garde of world cinema. I’m comfortable to contribute to this agenda as a result of filmmaking is, for my part, about difficult our views and discovering new and strange methods to have a look at issues.”
Giona A. Nazzaro, creative director, added: “A significant and stressed filmmaker, Jessica Hausner has created a various physique of labor reflecting probably the most hidden elements of latest society with extraordinary depth. With readability, steadfastness, and impeccable development, she has imagined each religious and fantastical worlds that mirror the cogent richness of a fancy and contradictory human expertise. To have Jessica Hausner as jury president of the Locarno Movie Competition’s Concorso Internazionale is a unprecedented honor and a assure that the movies will likely be mentioned by a jury led by some of the extraordinary filmmakers working right this moment.”
The jury of the Concorso Internazionale, chaired by Jessica Hausner, will award the Pardo d’Oro on the ultimate day of the pageant, Saturday, Aug 17. The entire collection of Locarno77 will likely be introduced on Wednesday, July 10.