Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai will fill the vacancy left by late
British director Anthony Minghella as head of the jury for this year's
Shanghai International Film Festival. Minghella's
sudden death last month forced the festival's organizing committee to
denote a new jury chairman before the festival opens on June 14. Wong
Kar-wai was selected for being a "long-time friend of the annual
festival," Xinmin Evening News quoted the organizing committee as
saying.
Wong is a frequent attendee at the Shanghai festival,
one of Asia's largest annual movie fairs. Two of Wong's well-known
works, "2046" and "My Blueberry Nights," were made in cooperation with
the Shanghai Film Group, showing his long-standing kinship with the
Shanghai film industry, the report says. The 11th Shanghai
International Film Festival is scheduled to run from June 14 to 22.
Wong Kar-wai
