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Greta Gerwig Selected As Jury President For 2024 Cannes Film Festival
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Barbie director Greta Gerwig has been selected to serve as the president of the jury at next year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The festival announced the actress, screenwriter and director as their pick on Thursday, following a year in which she beat every record with her film Barbie.
“I love films – I love making them, I love going to them, I love talking about them. As a cinephile, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of what the universal language of movies can be, Gerwig said in a statement.
Being in the place of vulnerability, in a dark theatre filled with strangers, watching a brand-new film is my favorite place to be. I am stunned and thrilled and humbled to be serving as the president of the Cannes Film Festival Jury. I cannot wait to see what journeys are in store for all of us, Gerwig said.
Gerwig is the first American female director to serve as jury president at Cannes. She is the second American woman after Olivia de Haviland in 1965, and the second woman director since Jane Campion in 2014. At 40 years old, she is the youngest jury president since Sofia Loren, who was 31 when she served in 1966.
“This is an obvious choice, since Greta Gerwig so audaciously embodies the renewal of world cinema, for which Cannes is each year both the forerunner and the sounding board”, said Iris Knobloch, Festival President, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate. “Beyond the 7th Art, she is also the representative of an era that is breaking down barriers and mixing genres, and thereby elevating the values of intelligence and humanism.”
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14–25, 2024.
TMX contributed to this article.
