Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o will head the competitors jury on the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.
“I am deeply honored to serve as the President of the International Jury of the Berlin International Film Festival. I look forward to celebrating and recognizing the outstanding work of filmmakers from around the world,” Nyong’o mentioned of her appointment.
The daughter of Kenyan mother and father, Nyong’o was born in Mexico City and grew up in Kenya. She then studied Film and Theatre Studies at Hampshire College (USA) and initially labored on numerous movie productions within the USA. Back in Kenya, she produced her first movie In My Genes in 2009, which she additionally directed and wrote. After additional research on the Yale School of Drama, she started her performing profession and is finest identified for her breakout efficiency in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave for which she picked up the Best Support Actress Oscar. Nyong’o’s different credit embody Jordan Peele’s Us, Little Monsters, Queen of Katwe, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the horror movie The 355. Next, she is ready to star in a spin-off of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place collection. In addition to performing, Nyong’o has additionally penned the youngsters’s e book Sulwe in 2020.
“Lupita Nyong’o embodies what we like in cinema: versatility in embracing different projects, addressing different audiences, and consistency to one idea that is quite recognizable in her characters, as diverse as they may look,” mentioned Berlinale administrators Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. “We are happy and proud she has accepted our invitation to be the jury president of the 74th Berlinale.”
Nyong’o is presently growing a collection primarily based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. She additionally lately served as the manager producer of the Sudanese movie Goodbye Julia, the directorial debut of Mohamed Kordofani. Goodbye Julia was chosen by the Sudanese National Committee working in exile to compete for the Best International Feature Film on the 96th Academy Awards.
Next 12 months’s Berlinale runs Feb 15 – Deb 25.
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