Spain's most famous film director Pedro Almodóvar picked as jury chair for Cannes 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 @ 12:19 PM
CULT Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has been named chairman of the judges' panel at the forthcoming Cannes Festival, now in its 70th year.
The prolific movie-maker, from Castilla-La Mancha, says he is 'grateful, honoured and a little overwhelmed' at being chosen, and that he is 'conscious of the responsibility involved'.
Almodóvar, whose often-controversial post-censorship films have helped launch the careers of some of Spain's most international performing artists, including Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, was a member of the Cannes jury in 1992, when its chairman was the ubiquitous French actor Gérard Dépardieu.
The Cannes Film Festival organisers, including its chairman Pierre Lescure and general manager Thierry Frémaux, call the prolific scriptwriter a 'glowing icon of Spanish cinema' and 'catalyst for international fame'.
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