Julie Taymor to head Tokyo Film Festival jury

Former film, theater and opera director Julie Taymor has been named jury president of the next Tokyo International Film Festival of the month.

Taymor ("The Lion King") will lead a small group that will select the winners of the 15-title contest that will take place in Tokyo between October 24 and November 2, 2022. The other four members of the jury will be announced later.

Taymor is the second woman to chair the jury in as many years and succeeds Isabelle Huppert in 2021 .there was no competition in 2020 due to COVID. And in 2019, the jury was chaired by the Chinese Zhang Ziyi.

The Kurosawa Akira Award is going to be revived after also being on hiatus since 2008. The award will be presented to a filmmaker who "makes extraordinary contributions to world cinema and should help define the future of the film industry". Previous winners include Steven Spielberg, Yamada Yoji and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

The recipient will be announced later. Along with this award, TIFF will also screen world classics that Kurosawa Akira loved, including Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog) and The Spirit of the Hive (1973, Víctor Erice), under the title "Kurosawa Akira's Favorite Films". < /p>
"Ms. Taymor has made not only musical theater but also many excellent films. She has a particularly strong connection to Japan, having studied traditional Ningyo Joruri puppet theater here as a student and later applying it to her own works.She is also a huge fan of Kurosawa Akira and is the perfect candidate as a as Jury President this year as we relaunch the Kurosawa Akira Prize,” said Ando Hiroyasu, Festival President.

"The arts are the beacon that lifts us out of chaos, leading the way. In a dark theater , the images that shimmer before us draw us both deep into and also out of ourselves, our isolated and unique selves.Hang on to movie theaters, the palaces that bring us together to cross the boundaries of what we don know at all, from what we think we know and what we have personally experienced. Become the life and loves of others and let them inspire and torment you," Taymor said in a prepared statement.
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The full festival lineup will be announced on September 21.

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Julie Taymor to head Tokyo Film Festival jury

Former film, theater and opera director Julie Taymor has been named jury president of the next Tokyo International Film Festival of the month.

Taymor ("The Lion King") will lead a small group that will select the winners of the 15-title contest that will take place in Tokyo between October 24 and November 2, 2022. The other four members of the jury will be announced later.

Taymor is the second woman to chair the jury in as many years and succeeds Isabelle Huppert in 2021 .there was no competition in 2020 due to COVID. And in 2019, the jury was chaired by the Chinese Zhang Ziyi.

The Kurosawa Akira Award is going to be revived after also being on hiatus since 2008. The award will be presented to a filmmaker who "makes extraordinary contributions to world cinema and should help define the future of the film industry". Previous winners include Steven Spielberg, Yamada Yoji and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

The recipient will be announced later. Along with this award, TIFF will also screen world classics that Kurosawa Akira loved, including Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog) and The Spirit of the Hive (1973, Víctor Erice), under the title "Kurosawa Akira's Favorite Films". < /p>

"Ms. Taymor has made not only musical theater but also many excellent films. She has a particularly strong connection to Japan, having studied traditional Ningyo Joruri puppet theater here as a student and later applying it to her own works.She is also a huge fan of Kurosawa Akira and is the perfect candidate as a as Jury President this year as we relaunch the Kurosawa Akira Prize,” said Ando Hiroyasu, Festival President.

"The arts are the beacon that lifts us out of chaos, leading the way. In a dark theater , the images that shimmer before us draw us both deep into and also out of ourselves, our isolated and unique selves.Hang on to movie theaters, the palaces that bring us together to cross the boundaries of what we don know at all, from what we think we know and what we have personally experienced. Become the life and loves of others and let them inspire and torment you," Taymor said in a prepared statement.

The full festival lineup will be announced on September 21.

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