Venice jurors to include Gina Kim, Ramin Bahrani, Stuart Gordon

The Venice Biennale has announced the international juries for three sections.

The Orizzonti (Horizons) jury will be chaired by Spanish independent film master Pere Portabella, as previously announced. He will serve with Luxembourg-based artist and independent filmmaker Bady Minck whose work crosses various artistic disciplines; Korean filmmaker Gina Kim - a new voice in Asian-American cinema, whose 2007 Sundance title Never Forever will be followed up by an English-language feature to be produced by Martin Scorsese. From Indonesia - Garin Nugroho joins the Orizzonti jury after making a splash with his
own film in the section, Requiem from Java in 2006. Finally, American-Italian cross-genre filmmaker (Below Sea Level) Gianfranco Rosi rounds out the section’s jury.

The international jury for first works will be lead by African-American director Haile Gerima, who won the Silver Lion last year for Teza, which was also screened at Toronto. He is joined by Fipresci award winning director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) and last year’s first film prize winner Gianni De Gregorio for the audience favorite Pranzo di Ferragosto as well as American director-producer Antoine Fuqua, known for work in video, features and documentaries like his current Bastards of the Party, as well as UK artist and director of forthcoming Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor Wood who won the ‘best new artist’ prize at the 2007 art Biennale.

The Corto-Cortissimo jury (shorts) will be led by Stuart Gordon form the US known for his auteur and genre works like Edmond and Re-Animator. That jury also includes Russian Alieva Sitora, programmer of the Kinotaur Festival in Sochi, and Steve Ricci, the director of the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies Programme.

Venice runs September 2-12.