Mia Wasikowska To Head Sarajevo Jury
Actress and director Mia Wasikowska (Bergman Island) will head the Competitors jury at this 12 months’s Sarajevo Movie Competition. Wasikowska can be joined by actor Zlatko Burić, actress Danica Ćurčić, director and actor Juraj Lerotić, and Josh Siegel, curator of MoMA’s Division of Movie. “I’m thrilled to function Jury president for the twenty ninth Sarajevo Movie Competition alongside such great members of the worldwide arts neighborhood,” Wasikowska mentioned. “It appears a very poignant time to mirror on the origins of the competition, and to have a good time the significance of coming collectively to advertise a various vary of cultures, views, and experiences via artwork.”

Two-Time Oscar Winner Pietro Scalia Set For Locarno Honor
American editor and two-time Oscar winner Pietro Scalia can be feted with Locarno’s Imaginative and prescient Award Ticinomoda. The award can be handed over in a ceremony on August 3 within the competition’s famed Piazza Grande, adopted by a panel dialog with the viewers on August 4. Good Will Searching (1997) and Black Hawk Down (2001), two movies that Scalia minimize, may even display screen on the fest. Born in Italy, Scalia grew up in Switzerland earlier than transferring to Hollywood, the place he has labored with filmmakers equivalent to Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Scalia’s work may be seen subsequent in Michael Mann’s forthcoming Ferrari. Locarno runs August 2- 12.