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Michel Gondry to head Cannes short film jury

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
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First De Niro, now Gondry.

The Cannes Film Festival has named Michel Gondry to head the shorts jury at this year’s gathering. The director will also head the jury for Cinefondation, the Cannes-run organization that hands out a trio of prizes to emerging filmmakers.

Gondry joins Robert De Niro, who will head the features jury, in the south of France.

Gondry is one of the few French-born directors who has also crossed over to Hollywood. The ‘Green Hornet’ director has been to the festival several times before, premiering his surrealist feature ‘Human Nature’ on the Croisette in 2001 and most recently bringing his documentary ‘The Thorn in the Heart’ there in 2009.

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The rest of the shorts jury is expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The Cannes Film Festival kicks off May 10.

-- Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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