# Valérie Donzelli, Carolina Cavalli to Chair Venice’s Horizons, Luigi De Laurentiis Juries

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/valerie-donzelli-carolina-cavalli-to-chair-venices-horizons-luigi-de-laurentiis-juries/
- Published: 2026-07-13T13:32:05+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-15T02:14:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/valerie-donzelli-carolina-cavalli-venices-horizons-luigi-de-laurentiis-juries-1236809486/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Venice named juries for Horizons and debut film awards
- Valérie Donzelli and Carolina Cavalli will chair them
- Debut prize includes a $100,000 award

## Summary

La Biennale di Venezia has announced the juries for two of the 83rd Venice Film Festival’s key strands: Horizons and the Luigi De Laurentiis award for a debut film. French filmmaker Valérie Donzelli will chair the Horizons jury, while Italian writer-director Carolina Cavalli will lead the jury for the festival’s first-feature prize. The appointments matter because these juries decide some of Venice’s most important awards for emerging and international cinema, helping shape the visibility and momentum of filmmakers beyond the main competition.

Donzelli’s Horizons jury also includes Peter Becker, Elizabeth Lo, David Pablos and Barbara Ronchi, and it will award seven prizes, including best film, director, screenplay and short film, with no joint winners allowed. Cavalli’s debut-film jury includes Akinola Davies Jr. and Ted Hope, and will choose from first feature-length films across the festival’s official selection and sidebars. The Luigi De Laurentiis prize is worth $100,000, split equally between the director and producer, and all winners will be announced at the closing ceremony on 12 September; the festival itself runs from 2 to 12 September under director Alberto Barbera.

## Coverage

- [Variety: Valérie Donzelli, Carolina Cavalli to Chair Venice’s Horizons, Luigi De Laurentiis Juries](https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/valerie-donzelli-carolina-cavalli-venices-horizons-luigi-de-laurentiis-juries-1236809486/)
- [The Hollywood Reporter: Directors Valu00e9rie Donzelli, Carolina Cavalli to Head Venice Sidebar Juries](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-sidebar-juries-valerie-donzelli-carolina-cavalli-1236646403/)

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