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Cannes Critics’ Week Appoints New Jury President As Rodrigo Sorogoyen Cancels Attendance
Cannes Critics' Week Appoints New Jury President & As Rodrigo Sorogoyen Cancels Attendance For Personal Reasons
Cannes Critics’ Week has appointed French producer Sylvie Pialat as president of the jury for its upcoming edition after Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who was originally announced for the role, was forced to cancel for personal reasons. Previously announced members of the jury include Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire ( Augure by Baloji, My New Friends, Haven of Grace), Belgian cinematographer Virginie Surdej ( The Blue Caftan, Our Mothers, Casablanca Beats), and Canadian film critic and journalist Ben Croll. Following his death in 2003, she created Les Films du Worso and since produced more than 50 feature films under that banner, including works by Guillaume Nicloux, Alain Guiraudie, Joachim Lafosse, Abderrahmane Sissako, Julie Gavras, Franco Lolli, Aude Léa Rapin, Céline Devaux, Cédric Kahn, Xavier Beauvois, Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine and Corneliu Porumboiu.
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