Brazilian avant garde musician Caetano Veloso has been announced as the guest director for the 2011 edition of the Telluride Film Festival.
Veloso, whose career spans back to 1965 and includes more than 30 albums is known for being one of the founders of the Tropicalismo movement, which fused musical and poetry genres in a bid to create sounds that were unique.
Festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger annually select a guest director, who is then invited to collaborate and bring fresh ideas to the festival, which will this year run from September 2 to 5.
Telluride Film Festival founder Tom Luddy said: "Peter Sellars - Telluride's 1999 Guest Director who has since become one of our permanent curators - first suggested the idea of Caetano Veloso for a Guest Director position at the festival. I knew from many common friends and from Caetano's book [memoir Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil] that he was a passionate film lover. I am thrilled that this great artist will be with us over Labor Day Weekend to present some of his favorite films."
Past Guest Directors include Michael Ondaatje, Alexander Payne, Salman Rushdie, Peter Bogdanovich, B. Ruby Rich, Phillip Lopate, Errol Morris, Bertrand Tavernier, John Boorman, John Simon, Buck Henry, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim, G. Cabrera Infante, Peter Sellars, Don DeLillo, J.P. Gorin, Edith Kramer and Slavoj Žižek.
In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, the Telluride lineup will be kept secret and unveiled on Opening Day, September 2, 2011.
For more information about the festival, visit the official site.
