Zhang Ziyi Invited To Be Venice Film Festival Jurer
June 25, 2004
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Zhang Ziyi has formally been invited by organizers of the 61st Venice International Film Festival to be a jurer at this year's festival. Acceptance of the invitation would make her only the second mainland Chinese actress after Gong Li to receive the great honor. Ziyi's representatives confirm the invitation but have not confirmed its acceptance. Considering Ziyi is scheduled to film a new Hollywood production later this September - presumably, romantic comedy Good Cook, Likes Music with Adam Sandler - as of now, there may be a scheduling conflict which could likely keep her from accepting the invitation.
If her schedule permits and she is able to accept the invitation, Zhang Ziyi will be 1 of 7 or 9 personalities from the world of cinema and culture in various countries - excluding any who have worked on the production of the works invited or who have an interest in their use - to be assigned the responsibility of judging and assigning prizes for the feature films screened, for which the top prize for Best Film is the Golden Lion Award.
Director Zhang Yimou (The Road Home, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, etc)'s The Story of Qiu Ju, starring Gong Li, won the Golden Lion in 1992.
First established in 1932, the Venice International Film Festival is the oldest, currently active film festival in the world. The 61st session of the film festival will be held from September 1st to 11th, 2004 in Venice, Italy.
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Jasmine Women Premiers In Shanghai
June 15, 2004
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Jasmine Women (aka Mo Li
Hua Kai, formerly Jasmine Flower), famous Chinese photographer and director Hou Yong's film about a family of three generations of women, starring Zhang Ziyi,
Joan Chen,
Jiang Wen,
Lu Yi and
Liu Ye, very recently had its premier screening at the 7th Annual Shanghai International Film Festival in Shanghai, China. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Zhang Ziyi was nominated in the Best Actress category for her onscreen roles.
Based on Su Tong's novelette The Lives of Women, set in 1930's, 50's and 80's Shanghai, Jasmine Women competed with other domestic and foreign films for the film festival's coveted Golden Goblet Award, but lost to Iranian director Khosro Masumi's Tradition of Lover-Killing.
Many famous and powerful persons in Asian and international cinema were present at this year's film festival, including French director Olivier Assayas and American actress Meryl Streep, among many others. Surprisingly, though she stars in one of the festival's award-winning films and was nominated for a major festival award for her acting, Zhang Ziyi was not invited to the Shanghai International Film Festival for her own film's premier screening. :\
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