Waltz to head filmmaker award jury at Zurich Film Fest

Two-time Oscar winner Christopher Waltz will head the jury for the filmmaker award at the 11th Zurich Film Festival, which will open on September 24.
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The Zurich Filmmaker Award, which rewards an unfinished film from a Swiss director, comes with a cash bursary of USD 104,000.
Waltz will attend the Zurich festival opening on September 26 and will present a special gala screening of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the film that launched his international career.
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The actor, along with Swiss director Marc Forster (World War Z), Zurich festival co-director Karl Spoerri and Georges Kern, CEO of luxury watch group IWC Schaffhausen, a major festival sponsor, will pick the best new Swiss film project at this year's event.
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The four finalists this year are the documentary Europe, She Loves from director Jan Gassmann; Dominik Locher's drama Goliath; and two features based on real-life events: Michael Steiner's Tomorrow You'll Be Dead, the story of two Swiss citizens captured by the Taliban in 2011; and Hannes Baumgartner's The Gun Runner, which tells the story of Swiss long-distance runner, and serial criminal, Jonas Fischer.
The cash prize will go to completing production on the winning film.
The 11th Zurich Film Festival runs till October 4.
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