Soderberghs Contagion To Spread Out Zurich

Zurich, Europe August 30, 2011 The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) introduced today the people of these two juries which will preside within the worldwide competition groups in the seventh edition from the Festival, which happens September 22 October 2, 2011. Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix trilogy, Mystic River, What is Love Got related to It) assists as Jury Leader for that ZFFs worldwide section. The Festival may also be praising Fishburne having a special achievement award. Steven Soderberghs Contagion, which stars Fishburne, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law continues to be selected because the Festivals opening evening film and can screen in the Corso Cinema about the evening of Thursday, September 22nd. Contagion is definitely an action-thriller dedicated to the threat resulting from a deadly disease as well as an worldwide team of doctors contracted through the CDC to handle the outbreak. The film is really a Warner Bros. Pictures release, directed by Academy Award champion Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh also created the film with Gregory Jacobs, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher. Scott Z. Burns authored the script. Multiple Academy Award champion and humanitarian Sean Penn come in Zurich this season to simply accept the Festivals coveted Golden Icon Award. The 2011 Zurich Film Festival jury people are: Worldwide Narrative Feature Jury: Laurence Fishburne (Jury Leader) John Lesher (US) Producer, former Studio mind and agent Beki Probst (Poultry/Europe) director from the European Film Market (also decorated as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by French Cultural Minister) Paprika Steen (Denmark), multi-top rated Actress, director, author (Adam’s Apples, The Celebration, Applause) Alice Eve (United kingdom), Actress (leading roles in approaching The Raven, Males in Black 3) Stevan Arsenijevic (Serbia), oscar-nominated youthful author/director (Love along with other Crimes) Worldwide Documentary Jury: Charles Ferguson (USA), Academy-top rated director, producer, author (Inside Job) John Battsek (United kingdom), Producer (Sergio, Restrepo, Project Nim, The Tillman Story, Eventually in September) Nino Kirtadze (Georgia), director, author (Durakovo: Village of Fools) Eline Flipse (Netherlands), director, producer Stephen Nemeth (US), Producer The Zurich Film Festival was founded in October 2005 and grew to become firmly established upon the nation's and worldwide festival landscape inside a very short time. This year's seventh edition will again see Zurich changed into an eleven-day film festival capital honoring the skill of film.