Jury announced for Shanghai's Golden Goblet Award
- By Zhang Rui
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The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) organizers announced jury panel for its Golden Goblet Award on Tuesday.
Veteran filmmaker Huang Jianxin, responsible for many mainstream blockbusters such as "Beginning of the Great Revival", will be the president of the international jury for the main competition of feature films. Other jurors include Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen, Chinese actor and director Deng Chao, Italian film critic and historian Marco Müller, French producer Natacha Devillers and Chinese actress Song Jia.
The international jury in the animation category consists of director Chang Guangxi, as president, and Chinese animation director Wang Yunfei and German producer Jan Heinze, while the jury in documentary category are Chinese director Zhang Yang, British director Arthur Jones and Chinese director Yang Lina.
In addition, the jurors for the short film category are Anthony Chen (as president) and Wang Yunfei, as well as cinematographer Kees Van Oostrum from the Netherlands.
The Golden Goblet Award winners will be announced at a ceremony on the evening of June 19. The competition films include Iwona Siekierzynska's "Amateurs" (Poland), Chui Mui Tan's "Barbarian Invasion" (China's Hong Kong/Malaysia), Dai Wei's "The Chanting Willows" (China), Alexey Viktorovich Kozlov's "The Conscience" (Russia), Abolfazl Jalili's "The Contrary Route" (Iran) and Necip Caghan Ozdemir's "Pure White" and Diana Zuros' "Since August" (USA/Georgia), according to the first part of the list released by the organizers.
The animated films competing for awards include Lin Yongchang's "Realm of Terracotta" (China), Denisa Grimmova and Jan Bubenicek's "Even Mice Belong in Heaven" (Czech Republic/France/Poland) and Ilya Maksimov's "Gulliver Returns" (Ukraine).
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