Cannes Film Festival Jury 2014: Gael García Bernal To Judge; See Who Else Made Panel!

The jury of the 67th Festival de Cannes has been announced. This year, the acclaimed film festival will bring a little Latin flavor to their judges’ panel with Gael García Bernal. García Bernal first came to public attention in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Amorres Perros,” soon followed by “Y Tu Mamá También” by Alfonso Cuarón. He then featured in films directed by some of the greats of international cinema, such as “The Motorcycle Diaries” by Walter Salles, Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bad Education,” “The Science of Sleep” by Michel Gondry, “Babel” by Gonzalez Iñárritu, and “The Limits of Control” by Jim Jarmusch.

In 2005, he founded his Canana production company with Diego Luna and in 2010, after a few short films, directed his first feature film, “Deficit,” selected at La Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. Besides Gael García Bernal, the final panel will also include Sofia Coppola (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – United States), Willem Dafoe (Actor – United States), Carole Bouquet (Actress – France), Leila Hatami (Actress – Iran), Jeon Do-yeon (Actress – South Korea), Jia Zhangke (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – China) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – Denmark).

The New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter Jane Campion will be the President of the Jury of the 67th Festival de Cannes. Campion directed “The Piano,” the only movie by a woman director to win the Festival’s Palme d’Or. “Cannes has always sought to adopt a universal and international approach, and in tune with this tradition, Campion will be surrounded by eight luminaries of world cinema, from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the United States, France and Mexico,” the Festival said in a statement.

The 4-man and 5-women jury will decide between the 18 films in competition in order to select the winners. They will be announced on stage at the ceremony on Saturday May 24. The winner of the Palme d’Or will be screened during the Festival’s closing evening on Sunday May 25, in the presence of the Jury and the entire team of the winning film.