Official Juries 2017
The Locarno Festival is pleased to present the twenty-one international film personalities who will make up Locarno70’s five juries. The newcomer is the jury for Signs of Life, a sidebar which from this year features one of the Festival’s official competitions: its films will no longer just be discovered by our audience, but also judged by a three-member jury.
The Jury of the Concorso internazionale
President: Olivier Assayas, Filmmaker (France)
Miguel Gomes, Filmmaker (Portugal)
Christos Konstantakopoulus, Producer (Greece)
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Filmmaker (Switzerland)
Birgit Minichmayr, Actress (Austria)
The Jury of the Concorso Cineasti del presente
President: Yousry Nasrallah, Filmmaker (Egypt)
Matías Piñeiro, Filmmaker (Argentina)
Paola Turci, Singer (Italy)
Katrin Pors, Producer (Denmark)
Johanna ter Steege, Actrice (Netherlands)
The Jury of the Pardi di domani
President: Sabine Azéma, Actress (France)
John Canciani, Artistic director (Switzerland)
Yuri Ancarani, Filmmaker (Italy)
Verónica Echegui, Actress (Spain)
Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, Filmmaker (Lithuania)
The Jury of Signs of Life
Chris Fujiwara, Film critic and Programmer (Japan)
Jordan Cronk, Film critic and Programmer (Stati Uniti)
Maria Bonsanti, Programmer (Italy)
The Jury of the First Feature
Clarence Tsui, Film critic and Programmer (Hong Kong)
Birgit Kohler, Programmer (Germany)
Diego Batlle, Journalist (Argentina)
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