Rao will join the jury team

Gitanjali Rao who has already won the Kodak Discovery Award for her best short film at the Cannes Film Festival in the year 2006, for ‘The Printed Rainbow’. Now she has been invited to join the jury for this year. This 64th Cannes Film Festival will start from May 11 to May 22, 2011. Gitanjali Rao will be on jury of the Kodak Discovery Award for short films. After this announcement, she said that she is very thrilled to be on the Kodak jury of the Cannes festival.

The award is presented by the Semaine International de la Critique (SIC, International Critics’ Week), a prestigious parallel section of the Cannes festival open only to first and second films. Gitanjali Rao's 'Printed Rainbow', an exquisite, feminist animation film about an old woman and her cat who escapes into a dream world inspired by matchbox labels, made a spectacular debut at Cannes in 2006. It scooped up three awards for best short film in the Critics' Week - the Kodak Discovery Award, the Rail d'Or and Young Critics' Award. The film traveled to over 100 international festivals and won 27 awards. Gitanjali Rao is the first Indian animation film director to be invited on the Kodak Discovery Award jury.

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