Catherine Hardwicke, Rick Carter Lead Jury for Mediterrane Film Festival
Mediterrane Film Festival has revealed its international jury, which will include director Catherine Hardwicke and production designer Rick Carter.
The new creative team for the festival, which runs from June 21 to 29 in Valletta, Malta, is led by festival director Ray Calleja and festival curator Mark Adams.
More from Variety
Malta's Mediterrane Film Festival Sets Jury and Special Programming
Marcia Gay Harden, Virginia Madsen, Paris Jackson and Skeet Ulrich Join Catherine Hardwicke's 'Street Smart'
Catherine Hardwicke Casts Isabelle Fuhrman, Yara Shahidi, Daniel Zovatto and Michael Cimino in 'Street Smart'
The festival features three programming strands: the Main Competition, showcasing films from across the Mediterranean; Out of Competition, featuring a selection of international films; and Mare Nostrum (a.k.a. Our Sea), for films dedicated to sustainability and environmental themes.
In addition to public screenings, the festival will host an industry strand, housed in the 400-year-old Fort Ricasoli, offering panels, roundtables and masterclasses from leading industry figures.
The Main Competition jury will decide on the winners of the Golden Bee Awards, which will be announced at a gala event on June 29.
As well as Hardwicke, director of 'Twilight, 'Thirteen' and 'Lords of Dogtown,' which will screen at the festival, and Carter, who won Academy Awards for 'Avatar' and 'Lincoln,' the jury also includes: costume designer Charlese Antoinette, whose credits include 'Air' and 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' for which she received a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination; set decorator Elli Griff, who was Oscar nominated for 'Napoleon'; production designer James Price, who won an Oscar with 'Poor Things'; and Maltese director Mario Philip Azzopardi, known for 'ZOS: Zone of Separation,' 'Habbilni Ha Nirbah' and 'Il-Gaġġa,' which is considered to be the first full-length feature film made entirely in Maltese.
The Mare Nostrum jury will include Grainne Humphreys, artistic director of the Dublin Film Festival, and Ania Trzebiatowska, senior programmer at the Sundance Film Festival.
Malta Film Commissioner Johann Grech said: 'The Mediterrane Film Festival was born from a simple yet powerful idea – to connect creative minds from the Mediterranean and across Europe and transform their ideas into reality. We stand for opportunity, collaboration and creativity.'
Calleja said: 'As we celebrate 100 years of filmmaking in Malta, we're honored to welcome an exceptional panel of judges who reflect the depth, diversity, and global reach of contemporary cinema. Together with our festival curator, Mark Adams, we're committed to shaping a program that not only honors Malta's cinematic past but also champions bold new voices from across the Mediterranean and beyond.'
Best of Variety
'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week
Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
USA Today
2 hours ago
- USA Today
Charles Barkley roasted Spike Lee for saying he'd give up an Oscar for a Knicks title win
Charles Barkley roasted Spike Lee for saying he'd give up an Oscar for a Knicks title win The New York Knights were in the fight for their season on Thursday night in Game 5 of their NBA playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, and mega-fan Spike Lee was in attendance at Madison Square Garden to cheer on his favorite team. As he joined the Inside the NBA crew before the game, Lee admitted he'd really give up one of his Academy Awards for New York to win a championship. That's a big deal for an all-time auteur like Lee to say! However, Charles Barkley made sure to get a dig in at his Capital One commercial co-star and his odds of giving up that Oscar for a New York championship any time soon. "Well, you're gonna keep 'em," Barkley said to Lee, who got a big kick out of the former's snarky retort. Lee has given us so many great films over the years, so maybe he'll get a Knicks championship one day in return for all the phenomenal cinema he has contributed to the world. Until then, we're sure Barkley will have fun trolling him over the lack of recent New York rings.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Yahoo
Marcel Ophuls, L.A.-raised documentarian and Oscar winner, dies
Renowned documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, who, along with his family, fled Nazi Germany as a child and spent his formative years in Los Angeles before having a cinematic career which earned him both an Oscar as well as condemnation from some quarters, died Saturday in France, his adopted country. He was 97. Ophuls' death, first reported by news agencies, was confirmed by family members. He is survived by his wife, Regine, their three daughters and three grandchildren. The director's 1969 masterpiece, 'The Sorrow and the Pity,' an intense, four-hour work that made Ophuls' reputation, began as a project for a government-owned French broadcast network. Ultimately, though, it was banned and did not air on television until many years later, due to its searing indictment (or 'explosion,' as Ophuls preferred to called it) of the myth of France's heroic participation in the war — a false if popular version of events that ignored Vichy collaboration with the German occupiers. Born in Frankfurt in 1927, Ophuls was the son of film director Max Ophüls (his father later dropped the umlaut) and Hildegard Wall, a theater actor. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Ophuls clan left Germany for Paris. Then, when France fell, they settled in Los Angeles in November 1941, where Max Ophuls would come to enjoy a significant moviemaking career ("Letter from an Unknown Woman"). For young Marcel — German Jewish, a citizen of both France and the United States and fluent in three languages —the ethos and landscape of Southern California posed a very different and sometimes alienating experience. After graduating from Hollywood High, he was drafted by the U.S. Army and later enrolled at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, but still found assimilation difficult, revealing to writer Studs Terkel in a 1981 interview that, even as a refugee, he was shocked by the prejudice he observed toward people of color in the divided communities of Los Angeles following Pearl Harbor. 'When I made movies,' he said, 'one of the things that kept me from being too self-righteous is my memory of the Japanese kids who were in my class one day, then gone the next.' While his father Max struggled at first to find work in Hollywood, Marcel felt destined, as he often said, for a career in the film industry. As he revealed in his 2013 documentary memoir 'Ain't Misbehavin,' he began his career as an actor, playing, ironically, a member of the Hitler Youth in Frank Capra's 1942 War Department film 'Prelude to War.' Ultimately following his father to France in 1950, Ophuls turned to making nonfiction films for French television, after trying his hand in narrative cinema. 'My second film flopped, but it was a very bad film that deserved to flop,' he said frankly, speaking about his career in London in 2004. His self-deprecating brand of humor, tinged with a touch of irony, was often apparent in the interviews he conducted for many of his films, confronting former Nazis and collaborators. Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or genuine sympathy for his subjects who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime. Ophuls won the Academy Award for documentary feature in 1989 for 'Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,' which depicted the crimes of the head of the Gestapo in Lyon who, after the war, escaped French prosecutors with the help of U.S. Army intelligence, evading justice and living in South America until he was extradited to France from Bolivia in 1983. Barbie died in prison in 1991. Ophuls was also known for other documentaries, including 1976's 'The Memory of Justice,' about the legacy of the Nuremberg trials, and 1972's 'A Sense of Loss,' which dealt with the troubles of Northern Ireland. About his famous confidence when seated face-to-face with intimidating subjects — one interview was with Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and minister of armaments — Ophuls was characteristically candid and self-effacing. "He was so fantastically cooperative," he said of Speer. "He even offered to show me his home movies. It just seemed to me to be part of my job." Sign up for Indie Focus, a weekly newsletter about movies and what's going on in the wild world of cinema. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
New York Post
3 hours ago
- New York Post
Celebs on celebrity row at MSG for Game 5 of Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference finals
The hottest stars had prime real estate on celebrity row at Madison Square Garden for Game 5 of the Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night. The stars were on hand to watch the home team's quest to keep their season alive and bounce back from a 3-1 series hole. Knicks superfans Timothée Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Tracy Morgan were all courtside to support them for what many have said is the biggest game in team history. Advertisement 3 Spike Lee sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden for Game 5 of the Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference finals on May 29, 2025. Instagram/New York Post Sports Actress Maude Apatow was in the building. During the 'NBA on TNT' pregame show, Lee, who sported an orange and blue striped suit, said, 'I would give up an Academy Award. Oscar, for the Knicks to win a Championship.' Charles Barkley replied, 'Well you're gonna keep 'em!' referring to director's two Oscar awards. Advertisement 3 Patrick Ewing arrives at Madison Square Garden for Game 5 of the Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference finals on May 29, 2025. Instagram/New York Post Sports Knicks alum Patrick Ewing took in the action, as he was spotted walking to his court side seat. There has been no shortage of star power throughout the Eastern Conference finals in both New York and Indiana. Advertisement Chalamet, Stiller, and Lee made the trip to Indianapolis, where the Pacers beat the Knicks 130-121 on Tuesday night. However, there isn't an NBA arena that has a celebrity row quite like the Knicks, especially during the playoffs. 3 Timothee Chalamet before Game 5 of the Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference finals on May 29, 2025. Instagram/Timothee Chalamet Tickets aren't available for purchase because it's invite only. Advertisement The coveted courtside seats are typically reserved for A-listers and Knicks diehards, former Knicks PR chief and media consultant Joe Favorito told The Post. The attention around the celebrity presence tends be heightened in New York partly because of the history of celebrity row and the legacy of The Garden. Others aren't concentrated on the celebs in the building, including Boomer Esiason. On his radio show Tuesday morning, Esiason explained that the Knicks play better on the road than they do at home because they 'hate' playing in front of the famous court side crowd. 'I think they're just sick and tired of all the goddamn celebrities at home,' he said. 'They hate playing in front of these people, and they'd just rather get away from all of that and go play. Go play defense and figure out a way to win on the road. There's something to be said about that. When you go on the road, it's you and your teammates. That's it.' The Knicks will have the home crowd rallying behind in them in a do-or-die Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals for them. Advertisement The Pacers have two-time All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who's been clutch in closing moments throughout the series. The winner will face the Western Conference champion Thunder in the 2025 NBA Finals, beginning Thursday, June 5 in Oklahoma City, and airing on ABC.
