Sentences with phrase «female jury president»

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Tomorrow, Cannes jury president Isabelle Huppert will meet with her formidable, female - dominated team of eight — including the diverse likes of Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento, James Gray and Hanif Kureishi — to pick over the 20 Competition titles they have seen over the last fortnight and select their collective favorites.

Female directors should fight film - industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of...

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

Ironically in the year that the president of the jury is none other than Pedro Almodóvar, God's gift to women in the movies, there have been relatively few substantial female roles — certainly nothing to rival last year's astonishing field, which included Sandra Hüller («Toni Erdmann»), Isabelle Huppert («Elle»), Sonia Braga («Aquarius»), Kristen Stewart («Personal Shopper»), Ruth Negga («Loving») and Sasha Lane («American Honey»).

Tomorrow, Cannes jury president Isabelle Huppert will meet with her formidable, female - dominated team of eight — including the diverse likes of Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento, James Gray and Hanif Kureishi — to pick over the 20 Competition titles they have seen over the last fortnight and select their -LSB-...]