British filmmaker completes SFF jury
Documentary director Lucy Walker has been announced as the final member of the Jury for the Sydney Film Festival official competition.
Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight, Waste Land and Countdown to Zero) joins president Jan Chapman, the director of the Sundance Film Festival John Cooper and directors Shirley Barrett and Yonfan.
The five industry professionals will judge the 12 films in competition, and award the $60,000 prize for new directions in film.
Walker’s Waste Land – about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and a lively group of catadores, or pickers of recyclable materials, who find a way from the world’s largest garbage dump in Rio to the most prestigious auction house in London via the surprising transformation of refuse into contemporary art – will have its Australian premiere at SFF on June 3.
