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Kristen will serve as the Jury President of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (16 - 26 February 2023)
American actor, screenwriter and director Kristen Stewart will be the president of the International Jury at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
“We’re excited about Kristen Stewart taking on this distinguished task. She’s one of the most talented and multi-faceted actors of her generation. From Bella Swan to the Princess of Wales she has given life to everlasting characters. Young, shining and with an impressive body of work behind her, Kristen Stewart is the perfect bridge between US and Europe,” say the festival directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.
Kristen Stewart is considered one of Hollywood’s major young talents. In 1999, at the age of nine, she celebrated her screen debut. Just three years later, she starred alongside Jodie Foster in David Fincher’s Panic Room and achieved wider public recognition. Her international breakthrough came with the five-part Twilight saga (2008–2012). In 2010, she attended the Berlinale with the independent production Welcome to the Rileys (directed by Jake Scott). That same year, she received the Orange Rising Star Award for Best Newcomer at the BAFTAs.
In 2014, she played alongside Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria, directed by French auteur Olivier Assayas, and in 2015 she became the first American to receive the French film award César for her role in the film. She continued her work with Assayas in 2016 on Personal Shopper, in which she played the lead. The following year, she celebrated her directorial and screenwriting debut with the short film Come Swim and in 2018, she was a member of the International Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, she made a foray into the action genre in Charlie’s Angels (directed by Elizabeth Banks) and delivered a fascinating performance in the biopic Seberg (directed by Benedict Andrews) which celebrated its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In 2020, she presented her next work as a director – the short film Crickets. Most recently, she wowed audiences as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s film drama Spencer, garnering nominations for an Academy Award and at the Critics Choice Awards for Best Actress. She has just completed production on Love Me, opposite Steven Yeun and just wrapped production on Love Lies Bleeding, directed by Rose Glass.
Kristen Stewart has become one of the most eminent international actors, thrilling audiences and critics alike. She is currently working on her feature-length directorial debut, the film adaptation of the bestseller “The Chronology of Water” by Lidia Yuknavitch.
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DEADLINE: How did you manage to secure Kristen Stewart as jury president? She is an artist more associated with Cannes than Berlin.
CHATRIAN (festival artistic director): She has attended the festival in the past but also, festivals don’t own talents, they don’t belong to festivals. it’s like UNESCO, if they’re great, they belong to the whole of humanity. I met Kristen Stewart in Cannes when she was in Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, which we also screened in Locarno. I was impressed by her as an actor but also as a person. We were looking for somebody that was established, politically committed but also young. She also believed the kind of selection we’re doing and the values we represent at Berlin were a good fit for her. It was not a long battle.
The Berlin Film Festival will run from 16 - 26 February 2023.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Imogen Poots will star in Kristen's feature directorial debut 'The Chronology of Water' and more details
PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award, the memoir is a lyrical journey through a life saved by art. A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer – ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer. A survivor’s story and a sexually abrasive and honest coming of age, the film is a physical memory wash of Yuknavitch’s inner life.
“Lidia’s memoir honors corporeal experience, radically,” said Stewart. “To make that experience physical feels vital to me and what this impulse means … is that it absolutely must be a film. This project has been cooking for five years with the help of Scott Free, whom I could not be more privileged to have as partners and friends. Imogen Poots will carry this movie and the staggering weight of Lidia’s life. She can hold it. I am beyond lucky to have her.”
Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss are producing alongside Mingo. Scott Free’s Rebecca Feuer will serve as an executive producer on the film.
“Ridley and I are delighted to be working with Kristen again, this time on her feature directorial debut, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary memoir,” said Pruss. “Just as we have seen in Kristen’s short films as a director, I have no doubt that she will bring that same level of style, uniqueness and fearless emotionality to The Chronology of Water. Furthermore, to have the the opportunity to work with Imogen — who is tailor-made for the lead role — is incredibly exciting. The combination of their talents will no doubt produce something exquisite for film audiences worldwide.”
Stewart teamed with Scott Free in 2017 for her short film directorial debut Come Swim, which she wrote, directed and screened at both Cannes and Sundance, after collaborating with them as an actress in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys, and A24’s Equals from director Drake Doremus.
Stewart is coming off her Oscar-nominated performance portraying Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, which earned her some of the best reviews of her career on top of numerous accolades that included a Critics Choice Award. Stewart most recently can be seen in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future alongside Viggo Mortensen. Stewart also recently completed productions for a sci-fi love story opposite Steven Yeun and the Rose Glass-directed Love Lies Bleeding.
Poots was seen in Florian Zeller’s Best Picture Oscar-nominated The Father, alongside Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, and in Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit. On the TV side, she co-starred opposite Josh Brolin in Amazon’s Outer Range.
Stewart is represented by WME and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Poots is represented by WME, Entertainment 360, B-Side Management and Yorn Levine Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman. Yuknavitch is represented by The Gersh Agency and Massie McQuilkin.
Scott Free’s upcoming films include Napoleon for Apple, directed by Ridley Scott with Joaquin Phoenix starring as the French military leader and emperor Napoleon; Boston Strangler with 20th Century/Hulu, starring Keira Knightley from director Matt Ruskin; Berlin Nobody, a thriller written and directed by Jordan Scott starring Eric Bana, Sadie Sink and Sylvia Hoeks; a new movie in the Alien franchise, to be directed by Fede Alvarez; A Haunting in Venice from Kenneth Branagh, starring Branagh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey and Michele Yeoh; and Outside, a feature adaption from bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson.
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