Tim Blake Nelson, the actor, writer, director, producer, and regular Coen Brothers collaborator, along with Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, Italian actor Luca Marinelli, and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum, will be part of the jury for the main competition section of the Locarno Film Festival. They will determine the winner of the prestigious Pardo d’Oro — the Golden Leopard — in the Concorso Internazionale (International Competition) at the 77th edition of the Swiss film festival, scheduled for Aug 7-17. The lineup of jurors has been praised by Locarno organizers for including some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema. Nelson will also feature in Vincent Grashaw’s Bang Bang, premiering in the Fuori Concorso (Out of Competition) section of Locarno 77.
The jury responsible for selecting the winner of the Pardo d’Oro in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) category, which focuses on emerging directors with their first or second features, comprises Nigerian filmmaker C.J. Fiery Obasi, French/Palestinian/Algerian filmmaker and actor Lina Soualem, and former Cahiers du cinéma editor and Cannes Critics' Week artistic director Charles Tesson.
