Outside the Sala Grande, Eva H.D. stood up for Palestine, brandishing a sign that said, "We Are All an Audience to Genocide," amid a festival where the war on Gaza weighed heavily - and continues to after Alexander Payne's jury awarded the Palestine-centered drama " The Voice of Hind Rajab" the runner-up prize before Jim Jarmusch's Golden Lion winner "Father Mother Sister Brother" was announced.
For a man who wrote an entire movie about how awful adapting a book into a movie can be, Charlie Kaufman has really developed it into a unique skill. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is best known for original stories like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he's recently branched out and adapted a children's book into the surprisingly cerebral animated movie Orion and the Dark.