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The actress was born Jessica Chastain He will preside over the jury of the twentieth Marrakech International Film Festival, which will take place in this brown city from November 24 to December 2.

The “Gold Star” will be awarded to one of the large-scale competitions of the international competition dedicated to the discovery of filmmakers from around the world, the organization announced this Monday in a press release.

Chastain, who starred in the film in 2011, won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2022 for her role in Los Ojos de Tammy Faye (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and has had leading roles for directors such as Terrence . Malick, Kathryn Bigelow, Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott.

In 2016, he founded Freckle Films, a New York-based film and television producer that will soon release Memento, a film directed by Mexican director Michel Franco and produced by Freckle Films and starring Peter Saarsgaard.

Chastain recently returned to Broadway in a performance of Ibsen’s classic The Musical House, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress.

At the 2023 Marrakech Festival, one of its stars will be invited by Martin Scorsese, who will become the patron of his educational theme “Atlas of Fairy Tales”, dedicated to developing the talent of emerging African and Arab directors.

According to EFE

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