Two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will function the jury president for the primary competitors on the thirty second version of the EnergaCamerimage Worldwide Movie Competition, the Polish fest honoring excellence in cinematography.
The 2024 EnergaCamerimage competition runs Nov. 16-23 in Torun, Poland.
The star of Tár, Blue Jasmine, Carol and Elizabeth can also be a prolific producer, by her firm Soiled Movies (The New Boy, Miss America) and has served as a co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Firm.
“Cate Blanchett is an excellent artist who defies all definitions. She conjures up many individuals world wide, together with the best modern artists,” mentioned EnergaCamerimage director Marek Żydowicz. “I’m proud and comfortable that she accepted the invitation and agreed to grow to be president of the primary competitors jury.”
In her profession, Blanchett has labored with such cinematographers Remi Adefarasin (Elizabeth), Ed Lachman (Carol), and Florian Hoffmeister (Tár), who’ve been celebrated at EnergaCamerimage.
“Movies are lightning in a bottle, and I’ve had the profound inventive privilege of working with a number of the nice lightning catchers – cinematographers who’ve perpetually modified the best way I work and the best way I have a look at the world,” mentioned Blanchett. “To be at EnergaCamerimage of their midst en masse is a fever dream come true.”
EnergaCamerimage has a convention of recruiting prime performing expertise within the jury president function. Blanchett follows Juliette Binoche, jury president in 2022, and her Tár co-star Nina Hoss, who presided over the competition jury in 2021.