Kristin Stewart said she was feeling the full weight of the responsibility of being jury president at the Berlin Film Festival at the opening jury press conference on Thursday. “In full transparenc…
Stewart was quizzed on her criteria for a prize-winning film. Her reply suggests that under her jury watch the field is wide open.
“It’s an interesting thing to be, quote unquote, ‘in charge’ of deciding what the best film is. It’s such an ephemeral notion. It’s quite obviously something that’s quite subjective. We could find we absolutely hate a film, but that the accomplishment is staggering. And the feat of it, the ambition was accomplished,” she said.
She said the important thing was to “mitigate some bias” and “open up to something new” as the member of a jury. “Whether you like it or not, this festival in particular, historically is, in a positive way, confrontational and political. And I think that it’s very important for us, to deprogram and be fully open to newness. I think that the diversity and the breadth of perspective is going to provide us with some new material that might be challenging and strange to adapt to but I think point is to pick the one that jumps out. You know, if we all can’t agree that’s probably because it’s pretty good.
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