Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi has been selected to serve on the jury of the 2009 Silk Road Film Festival in Turkey.
Majidi will lead the International Golden Karagoz Feature Film Competition Grand Jury of the festival, which will be held from Nov. 14 to 22.
The 50-year-old director will be joined by Atilla Gigor (Hungary), Marie Jaoul de Poncheville (France), Cansel Elcin (Turkey), Fadik Sevin Atasoy (Turkey), Velissarios Kossivakis (Greece) and Andrey Karanikolov (Russia).
Majid Majidi is the first Iranian filmmaker to receive an Academy Award Nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film with his 1997 Children of Heaven.
He started his cinematic activities with acting and appeared in numerous films, including Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 1985 Boycott.
His first feature-length production was the 1992 Baduk, which was presented during the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and received several awards in Iran.
Majidi's Children of Heaven was nominated for the 1998 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 96-minute Song of Sparrows represented Iran at the 81st Oscar Awards.
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts also awarded Majidi the 9th annual ILEX Foundation Award for Excellence in Iranian Cinema.
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