Edinburgh Film Festival foreign judging panel named

NATALIE Dormer, one of the stars of TV’s Game of Thrones, is among the jurors for the international feature film prize at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Natalie Dormer. Picture: Wikipedia/ Suzi Pratt (suzi-pratt.com)

South Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho is to chair the jury for the international feature film competition at next month’s event, joined by Dormer and Scotland on Sunday film critic Siobhan Synnot.

Joon-ho won best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for Memories of Murder (2003) and received critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival for The Host (2006) and Mother (2009).

The panel will choose the winner of the award from a selection highlighting film-making from outside the UK.

Speaking at the Cannes film festival, the festival’s artistic director Chris Fujiwara said: “It’s a huge honour for our festival to have Bong Joon-ho, one of the greatest filmmakers, as the chair of the jury of our international feature film competition.

“We’re also honoured and delighted that he will be joined by Natalie Dormer, a brilliant and prolific performer, and Siobhan Synnot, one of Scotland’s leading voices for film culture.”

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