Todd Haynes will preside over the jury of the upcoming seventy fifth Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant. It’ll mark the primary version headed by Tricia Tuttle, the previous head of the BFI London Movie Pageant,
The American director, screenwriter and producer has a long-established shut rapport with the Berlinale on condition that his function movie debut “Poison” acquired the fest’s Teddy Award, the queer movie prize on the occasion, in 1991, after successful the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
In a press release, the Berlinale praised Haynes as “A dazzlingly gifted author and director with a formidable vary,” noting that “his physique of labor is without delay stylistically versatile but additionally unmistakably his.”
Key works in Haynes’ prolific filmography comprise “Protected” (1995); “Velvet Goldmine” (1998); fictional Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There” (2007), which received the Grand Jury Prize in Venice; mini-series “Mildred Pierce” (2011); “Carol” (2015); “Wonderstruck” (2017); “Darkish Waters” (2019); “The Velvet Underground” (2021) and “Might December” (2023).
Within the assertion the Berlinale additionally underlined that “Over almost 40 years, Todd Haynes has been some of the daring and distinctive filmmaking voices in US-American cinema, beloved for his nice sensitivity in exploring the inside worlds of outsiders and girls, and his fascinating investigations into gender and identification.”
“His ability at creating complicated characters has attracted most of the world’s best actors. Stars similar to Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor have performed the multi-layered characters in his movies. Todd Haynes’ movies and their actors have received awards at quite a few worldwide movie festivals,” the assertion added.
Berlin’s upcoming seventy fifth version will run Feb. 13-23, 2025. Tuttle is succeeding Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, who had co-headed the Berlinale as inventive and government administrators since 2020.
