Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Veteran film, theater and opera director Julie Taymor has been set as the president of the competition jury at next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
Taymor (“The Lion King”) will head a small group that selects the winners from the 15 competition titles that unspool in Tokyo between Oct.
24 and Nov. 2, 2022. The other four members of the jury will be announced later. Taymor is the second woman to head the jury in as many years and follows Isabelle Huppert in 2021.
There was no competition in 2020 due to COVID. And in 2019, the jury was headed by China’s Zhang Ziyi. The Kurosawa Akira Award is to be revived after also being put on hiatus by the pandemic.
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