Alexander Payne has been introduced as Jury President for the 82nd Venice Movie Competition, working from August 27 to September 6.
The director follows within the footsteps of current jury presidents Isabelle Huppert (2024), Damien Chazelle (2023), Julianne Moore 2022, Bong Joon-ho (2021) and Cate Blanchett (2020).
The choice was made by the Board of Administrators of La Biennale di Venezia, who confirmed the advice of the Director of the Venice Movie Competition, Alberto Barbera.
In accepting the proposal, Alexander Payne stated: “It’s an infinite honor and pleasure to serve on the jury at Venice. Though I share a filmmaker’s ambivalence about evaluating movies towards each other, I revere the Venice Movie Competition’s almost 100-year historical past of loudly celebrating movie as an artwork type. I couldn’t be extra excited.”
Alberto Barbera commented: “Alexander Payne belongs to the small circle of filmmakers-cinephiles whose ardour for cinema is fueled by information of movies of the previous and curiosity about up to date cinema, with out boundaries or obstacles of any sort. These qualities – alongside along with his expertise as a screenwriter – make him a super candidate to preside over the work of the Venice Jury, which known as upon to judge movies from world wide. I’m grateful to Alexander for accepting my invitation, which seals an acquaintance that goes again to the times of his commencement brief movie at UCLA.”
Alexander Payne has been introduced as Jury President for the 82nd Venice Movie Competition, working from August 27 to September 6.
The director follows within the footsteps of current jury presidents Isabelle Huppert (2024), Damien Chazelle (2023), Julianne Moore 2022, Bong Joon-ho (2021) and Cate Blanchett (2020).
The choice was made by the Board of Administrators of La Biennale di Venezia, who confirmed the advice of the Director of the Venice Movie Competition, Alberto Barbera.
In accepting the proposal, Alexander Payne stated: “It’s an infinite honor and pleasure to serve on the jury at Venice. Though I share a filmmaker’s ambivalence about evaluating movies towards each other, I revere the Venice Movie Competition’s almost 100-year historical past of loudly celebrating movie as an artwork type. I couldn’t be extra excited.”
Alberto Barbera commented: “Alexander Payne belongs to the small circle of filmmakers-cinephiles whose ardour for cinema is fueled by information of movies of the previous and curiosity about up to date cinema, with out boundaries or obstacles of any sort. These qualities – alongside along with his expertise as a screenwriter – make him a super candidate to preside over the work of the Venice Jury, which known as upon to judge movies from world wide. I’m grateful to Alexander for accepting my invitation, which seals an acquaintance that goes again to the times of his commencement brief movie at UCLA.”
