30/08/2010

Actress-director-producer Isabella Rossellini has been chosen as jury president for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20, 2011).

The daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini made her big-screen debut alongside her mother in Vincente Minnelli’s Nina. She went on to work with the Taviani brothers, Norman Mailer, John Schlesinger, Abel Ferrara, Peter Greenaway, and David Lynch, with whom she made Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart.

Rossellini’s first appearance at the Berlinale was in 1994, with Peter Weir’s Fearless, selected in competition. Since then, she has returned several times, including in 2006 to present the short film about her father My Dad Is 100 Years Old, written by her and directed by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, whom she accompanied there again in 2007.

The following year at Berlin, she also presented her debut directorial effort, the multi-part feature Green Porno (2008).

Having worked this summer at Babelsberg Studios (on Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s new film), Rossellini is getting ready to appear on the Lido in Saverio Costanzo’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers [+see also:
trailer
interview: Luca Marinelli
film profile].

(Translated from French)