Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues named Cannes Camera d’or chair April 30, 2012 - 14:14 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues gets the task of picking this year’s best new director from the lineup of emerging talent at the Cannes Film Festival, The Wrap reported. Diegues will head up the Camera d’or jury, which kicks off on May 16, Cannes officials announced. Other jury members will include Italian journalist Gloria Satta and French film industry representatives Herve Icovic, Michel Andrieu and Francis Gavelle. This year’s crop of Camera d’or contenders includes 22 films presented in the Official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight or La Semaine de la Critique categories, according to Cannes officials. Over the course of his five-decade career (and counting), Diegues has directed over 20 features, documentaries and shorts, including “God Is Brazilian” (2003), “Orfeu” (1999) and “Bye Bye Brasil” (1980) - many of which he also had a hand in writing. Diegues will announce the winner at the festival’s closing ceremony on May 27.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
