Julianne Moore to go Venice Film Festival jury

Oscar profitable actress Julianne Moore will head the principle competitors jury at this yr’s Venice Film Festival, organisers stated on Friday.

Moore might be joined in deciding this yr’s winners by French director Audrey Diwan, who scooped the pageant’s Golden Lion award final yr for her movie “Happening”, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo and Nobel Prize profitable writer Kazuo Ishiguro.

Argentine director and screenwriter Mariano Cohn and Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen will full the worldwide jury, which assigns the pageant’s principal competitors awards, together with the Golden Lion.

The 79th version of the pageant, held on the lagoon metropolis’s Lido island, will run from August 31 to September 10.