Cate Blanchett has been named jury president of the primary competitors at this yr’s Camerimage Movie Competition in Torun, Poland.
Blanchett will lead the jury that arms out the competition’s predominant Golden Frog award.
Discussing right this moment’s announcement, Blanchett mentioned: “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 ceaselessly modified the best way I work and the best way I have a look at the world. To be at EnergaCAMERIMAGE of their midst en masse is a fever dream come true.”
Blanchett has beforehand presided over competition juries on the Cannes Movie Competition in 2018 and the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition in 2020. As an actor, Blanchett is a two-time Oscar winner with a number of credit, together with seminal titles like The Aviator, The Gifted Mr. Ripley, Elizabeth, Notes on a Scandal, and Carol. Blanchett can also be a distinguished producer and with Andrew Upton and Coco Francini is a co-founder of Soiled Movies, the manufacturing firm behind, amongst others, Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy (which she additionally appeared in). Final yr Thornton was awarded the Golden Frog for the movie, marking the primary time a Cinematographer/Director has gained the highest prize.
“Cate is an excellent artist who defies all definitions. She conjures up many individuals all over the world, together with the best up to date artists,” mentioned Marek Żydowicz, EnergaCAMERIMAGE Director. “She is delicate to the issues of others and able to assist. Her arrival and assembly with the competition friends will undoubtedly be extraordinarily inventive. I’m proud and comfortable that she accepted the invitation and agreed to grow to be the Chairman of the Predominant Competitors Jury.”
The 2024 Camerimage Movie Competition runs 16-23 November.
