Kristen Stewart named youngest Berlin Film Fest jury chief
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American actress Kristen Stewart will in February head the jury at Berlin’s international film festival, Europe’s first major cinema showcase of the year, organisers said last Friday.
The Berlinale, as the event is known, said Stewart, 32, would be the youngest person in its 73-year history to lead the panel selecting the winners of the Golden and Silver Bear top prizes.
Festival chiefs Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian called the star of Spencer (2021) and The Twilight Saga (2008 to 2012) “one of the most talented and multi-faceted actors of her generation”.
“Young, shining and with an impressive body of work behind her, Kristen Stewart is the perfect bridge between US and Europe,” they said in a statement.
Considered one of Hollywood’s major young talent, Stewart began her career as a child actress, starring alongside American actress Jodie Foster in director David Fincher’s Panic Room (2002).
The five-part Twilight movies made Stewart and English actor Robert Pattinson global superstars. Both have harnessed their box-office bankability to pursue projects with independent directors on each side of the Atlantic.
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