Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o will head the competitors jury on the 2024 Berlin Movie Competition.
“I’m deeply honored to function the President of the Worldwide Jury of the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition. I sit up for celebrating and recognizing the excellent work of filmmakers from around the globe,” Nyong’o mentioned of her appointment.
The daughter of Kenyan mother and father, Nyong’o was born in Mexico Metropolis and grew up in Kenya. She then studied Movie and Theatre Research at Hampshire School (USA) and initially labored on numerous movie productions within the USA. Again in Kenya, she produced her first movie In My Genes in 2009, which she additionally directed and wrote. After additional research on the Yale College of Drama, she started her performing profession and is finest recognized for her breakout efficiency in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave for which she picked up the Greatest Help Actress Oscar. Nyong’o’s different credit embrace Jordan Peele’s Us, Little Monsters, Queen of Katwe, Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens, and the horror movie The 355. Subsequent, she is about to star in a spin-off of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place collection. Along with performing, Nyong’o has additionally penned the kids’s e book Sulwe in 2020.
“Lupita Nyong’o embodies what we like in cinema: versatility in embracing completely different tasks, addressing completely different audiences, and consistency to at least one concept that’s fairly recognizable in her characters, as various as they might look,” mentioned Berlinale administrators Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. “We’re comfortable and proud she has accepted our invitation to be the jury president of the 74th Berlinale.”
Nyong’o is at present creating a collection based mostly on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. She additionally not too long ago served as the chief producer of the Sudanese movie Goodbye Julia, the directorial debut of Mohamed Kordofani. Goodbye Julia was chosen by the Sudanese Nationwide Committee working in exile to compete for the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie on the 96th Academy Awards.
Subsequent 12 months’s Berlinale runs Feb 15 – Deb 25.
