Iván Giroud is a member of the jury for the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival

May 22, 2019

The president of the Havana Film Festival, Iván Giroud, was invited to be part of the jury for the L´Oeil d´or-Documentary Award (Golden Eye Documentary in English) section of the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. This section, created in 2015, awards the best documentary from all sections of the event. The winning work is also eligible to be nominated for other international awards such as the Academy Awards.

The award created by the Francophone Authors Society (Scam) in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival and with the support of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) will feature for this occasion the participation as jurors of several filmmakers, actors and actresses, presided over by French filmmaker Yolande Zauberman. The other members are actress and director Romane Bohringer, actor and director Eric Caravaca, both from France, filmmaker Ross McElwee, from the United States, and Cuban Giroud, who was director of the Havana Film Festival from 1994 to 2010 and in 2012 assumed its presidency.

Giroud currently directs the magazine Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. He compiled the book Alfredo Guevara. In the Exercise of Criticism (Ediciones Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, 2017) and wrote the volume The Pretext of Memory (Capital Intelectual, Buenos Aires, 2018).

The 72nd edition of Cannes will take place between May 14 and 25 of this year and will pay tribute, among other figures, to filmmaker Agnés Varda, as was evident in its official poster.

(Taken from the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema website)

Among the documentaries that have obtained the Golden Eye in previous editions, Allende, My Grandfather Allende (Marcia Tambutti Allende, 2015) and Visages Villages by Agnés Varda and JR, in 2017, stand out.

Source. Cubacine.cult.cu