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Courtesy of Getty British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, who has been serving as president of the Feature Narrative Competition jury at the ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival this week, tells Variety she prefers to know as little as possible about a film before watching it, “not even a synopsis of the story.”
“I prefer to go in with no criteria and a very open mind,” she explains. “I am looking for something that moves me, but it also can be something that strikes me in a particular way. It doesn’t have to reduce me to tears, but just something that’s maybe got a clarity about it, a feeling that the filmmaker has ideas and a vision.”
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