Payal Kapadia, Tim Blake Nelson join jury of Locarno Film Festival

Indian filmmaker and Cannes Grand Prix winner Payal Kapadia, along with US actor Tim Blake Nelson, Italian actor Luca Marinelli, and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum, have joined the jury of the Locarno Film Festival. They will be part of the main jury of the prominent Swiss festival dedicated to indie cinema, which, as previously announced, will be headed by Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner, reports Variety. In other Locarno jury announcements, the jury panel for the Filmmakers of the Present section, which focuses on emerging directors in their first or second feature, will include Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi and French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actor Lina Soualem, among others. (IANS)