Telluride Film Festival 2021: Barry Jenkins to Serve as Guest Director (Exclusive)

Barry Jenkins will be the guest director of the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, marking a coming home of sorts for the filmmaker, who swept up popcorn while working as a production apprentice at the …

“I’m often looking for people like myself on those screens and some years I don’t see very many,” Jenkins says. “And so that’s something that’s not at the back of my mind, but the forefront of my mind. There’s so many of those films and filmmakers that I love, that warrant and merit space at a festival like Telluride.” Jenkins will be on hand in Colorado to introduce the films, to “give context and explain to the audience why I wanted them there and what they mean to me.

Telluride has played a pivotal role in Jenkins’s career. In 2002, while studying film at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, he saw a flyer on the wall advertising the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, applied and got in, enabling him to attend screenings that year of films like Fernando Meirelles’s

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

THR /  🏆 411. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Spike Lee Graces Poster for 2021 Cannes Film FestivalSpike Lee’s gotta have it. The Cannes Film Festival is paying tribute to ground-breaking U.S. director by putting the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Do The Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman, and Ma…
Read more »

‘As of Yet’: Film Review | Tribeca 2021Taylor Garron and Chanel James co-direct this film exploring two friends learning to communicate during the pandemic.
Read more »

‘Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road’: Film Review | Tribeca 2021In a documentary bowing at Tribeca, the interview-averse Brian Wilson spends time with a journalist friend reminiscing, in his taciturn way, about his life and his music.
Read more »

See All the Best Fashion From the Tribeca Film FestivalThe festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, champions urbane, New York style.
Read more »

Venice Film Festival Confirms Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ To World Premiere On The LidoThe Venice Film Festival has confirmed that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will make its world premiere out of competition at the 78th edition in September. As Deadline reported in May, the film had…
Read more »