Michael Mann, creator of the hit Miami Vice cop show, was selected as jury president for this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It will be the first time the 69-year-old American director, producer and screenwriter chairs the jury of an international film festival.
Mann is known for his ‘glittering, post-modern style, detailed in its aesthetics and precise in the definition of the physical spaces, use of music, psychology and emotions, the Biennale di Venezia, which runs the world’s oldest film festival, said in a statement on Friday.
The new film festival artistic director Alberto Barbera said the 69th Venice Film Festival would be more sober land less glitzy than the past.
Mann produced Aviator, directed Last of the Mohicans and brought his 1980s Miami Vice tv show to the big screen in 2006 as director, producer and screenwriter.