The jury of next Festival of Cannes!!

Sean Penn the next President of the Jury for 2008 Cannes Festival

Which will be held from the 14 to May 25, will be chaired by Sean Penn. “an obviousness” according to Thierry Frémaux, deputy general of the festival, bus, “he incarnates the American cinema independent as well as a certain face of America which one likes”.

Sean Penn one of the most wanted faces of America

Actor and recognized producer:
“The Festival of Cannes is for a long time the world epicentre of discovered new waves of realizers. This is why it delays me to take part in it this year like chair of the jury “, explained the actor quoted in the official statement of the festival.

Sean Penn chairing the Festival of Cannes 2008

Actor and a successful producer:
Sean Penn, 47 years, are a figurehead of the independent and committed cinema. His dark roles and his work of producing are worth the recognition and the respect of his great job: nominated several times at the Oscars since 1996, he carries the famous statue in 2004 thanks to his upsetting interpretation of a father avenger in “Mystic River” of Clint Eastwood.

Sean Penn in Mystic River

Committed artist:
His last film as a producer, “a Into the Wild”, on the life and the death of a student who decides all to leave to settle in Alaska, leaves on January 9 to France. It should be in race in many categories with the Oscars.
The former terrible child of Hollywood, he is an access made known for his marriage agitated with Madonna the singer in the middle of the Eighties, will thus have ended up having a name synonymous with large cinema.

Madonna and Sean Penn

And of engagement citizen:
He had in particular started the polemic at the time of a voyage in Iraq to denounce the American policy in this country and had carried out a series of reports in Iran for an American newspaper.

Sean Penn tatoos in Mystic River