Mira Sorvino Named President of All Woman Jury at Oldenburg Film Festival

COLOGNE, Germany -- Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino will head an all-woman jury at this year's Oldenburg film festival, the indie film fest billed as Germany's answer to Sundance.

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Sorvino was named international jury president for the 2012 Oldenburg festival, which runs Sept. 12-16. Joining her on the international jury are actresses Debbie Rochon (Night of the Living Dead) and Gabrielle Miller (Call Me Fitz); producer and writer Lana Morgan (The Last Supper) and director/producer Tamar Simon Hoffs, whose last film, Pound of Flesh, premiered at Oldenburg in 2010.

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The jury will elect the winner of Oldenburg's German Independence Award for Best Film. Five German-language titles are in the running this year: Jan Ole Gerster's opening night feature Oh Boy; the drama The Visitor (Die Besucher) from Constanze Knoche; Lola Randl's The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros (Die Libelle und das Nashorn); Still Life (Stillleben) from Austrian director Sebastian Meise and Zero Killed, the first feature length film from experimental director Michal Kosakowski.