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Julie Gayet to chair Cannes documentary jury

Julie Gayet to chair Cannes documentary jury

French actor and producer Julie Gayet will preside over the jury for Cannes Movie Pageant’s documentary prize, L’OEil d’or.

Gayet is greatest identified for Bertrand Tavernier’s The French Minister and TV sequence Name My Agent, whereas her producer credit embody Julia Ducournau’s Uncooked and Oliver Laxe’s Mimosa.

Gayet beforehand served on the Cannes Un Sure Regard jury in 2013.

Becoming a member of Gayet are Chilean director Carmen Castillo, French producer Juliette Favreul Renaud, Cinémathèque Suisse director Frederic Maire and Belgian-Congolese actor Marc Zinga. 

The documentary prize, created by Cannes and La Rip-off, awards €5,000 to a movie taking part in in official choice, Administrators’ Fortnight or Critics’ Week.

Final yr, the joint winners have been Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Misplaced And Discovered and The Brink Of Goals by Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh.

Juliette Binoche is chairing the pageant’s predominant competitors and Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher is main the Digital camera d’Or jury.

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