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| ▲ This photo captured from the Cannes Film Festival official website presents all nine judges for the 74th Cannes Film Festival. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, June 25 (Yonhap) -- The Cannes Film
Festival officially announced the final nine members, including actor Song
Kang-ho, as the jury for the 74th Cannes Film Festival next month.
The Cannes International Film Festival appointed American film director Spike
Lee, as well as other directors and actors working in seven different countries
as the final judges. The selected members will judge 24 films for the film
festival.
Apart from Song Kang-ho, French actor Tahar Rahim, who starred in "The
Kindness of Strangers," and "The Mauritanian," French actor-director
Melanie Laurent of "Night Train to Lisbon," and "Now You See Me," as well as
American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal of "The Kindergarten Teacher," and
"Frank" will participate as the judges.
In addition, actress-film director Marti Diop, French singer-songwriter Mylene Farmer,
Austrian director Jessica Hausner and Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho were also listed as judges.
Song is the fifth Korean to become a member of Cannes' jury, following director
Shin Sang-ok, director Lee Chang-dong, actress Jeon Do-yeon and director Park
Chan-wook. The actor also starred in director Han Jae-rim's "Emergency
Declaration," which was put to the out of competition section of the film
festival.
This year's Cannes Film Festival will be held in Cannes, a resort town in southern
France, from May 6-17.
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