Famend filmmaker Shekhar Kapur would be the jury head for the worldwide competitors of the Worldwide Movie Pageant of India (IFFI) 2023 in Goa subsequent month.
The five-member jury additionally contains cinematographer Jose Luis Alcaine, producers Jerome Paillard, Catherine Dussart and Helen Leake, stated a press launch.
“The Worldwide Jury will choose the winner of the coveted greatest movie award which incorporates the Golden Peacock, Rs 40 lakh financial element and certificates for the director and producer.
“Aside from one of the best movie, the jury may also decide winners in one of the best director, greatest actor (male), greatest actor (feminine) and particular jury prize classes,” it added.
The worldwide jury may also decide the winner for the pageant’s greatest debut characteristic movie of a director award that may see 7 first-time filmmakers compete for the coveted Silver Peacock, Rs 10 lakh and a certificates.
Kapur is greatest identified for steering classics similar to Masoom and Mr India. He efficiently branched out to Hollywood with the Oscar-nominated interval drama Elizabeth, The 4 Feathers and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
For the present version of the IFFI, which can run from November 20 to twenty-eight, the organisers have acquired “a file breaking 2926 entries from 105 international locations”.
Final 12 months, the pageant had run into a significant controversy after Nadav Lapid, the jury head of worldwide competitors, had criticised filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Recordsdata as vulgar and a propaganda.
The Kashmir Recordsdata, which depicted the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits throughout militancy within the early Nineties, was screened underneath the Indian Panorama part on the pageant.
