The Venice Film Festival unveiled its lineup of master classes and conversations for 2024. Highlights include talks with triple Oscar-nominee Sigourney Weaver and Australian director Peter Weir, both of whom will receive honorary Golden Lion awards in Venice this year for lifetime achievement.
Actor-director Ethan Hawke and Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati will also give master classes at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
Venice’s conversations series, organized in collaboration with Cartier, includes sit-downs with Richard Gere, Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful) and French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).
The master classes will be held at the Match Point Arena at the Tennis Club Venezia across from the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido from Aug. 29 to Sept. 6. They kick off with Weaver’s master class Thursday, Aug 29 at 4:30 p.m. local time. Weir’s master class is at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1. Hawke’s at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 2, and Avanti’s at 3:30 p.m. local time Friday, Sept. 6.
The conversations program will run Saturday, Aug. 31 — Piovani’s talk is at 11 a.m., Leloch’s at 4:30 p.m. — and Sunday, Sept. 1, with Gere at 10:30 a.m. All the master classes and conversations will be livestreamed on the Venice Film Festival website at www.labiennale.org.
The 81st Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.
