{"id":38117,"date":"2026-09-26T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/?post_type=venice-film-festival&#038;p=38117"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:23:43","slug":"akinola-davies-jr","status":"publish","type":"venice-film-festival","link":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/venice-film-festival\/akinola-davies-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Akinola Davies Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Akinola Davies Jr.<\/strong>, British-Nigerian director, attended the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in September 2026, where he also served as a member of the jury of the <em>Venezia Opera Prima &#8220;Luigi De Laurentiis&#8221;<\/em> award for a debut film, alongside <strong>Carolina Cavalli<\/strong> and <strong>Ted Hope<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the red carpet he chose a sharp black suit with a white shirt, a black beanie and dark sunglasses, greeting the photographers with a hand on his heart and a peace sign. His own debut feature, <em>My Father&#8217;s Shadow<\/em>, premiered at Cannes in 2025 and won the 2026 BAFTA for Best Debut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ph. <a href=\"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/about-me\/\">Barbara Pigazzi<\/a>, Studio Animica.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:14px\">LINK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/news\/juries-orizzonti-and-venice-award-debut-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice Award for a Debut Film &#8220;Luigi De Laurentiis&#8221; \u2013 official jury announcement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38124,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"category-vff":[1006],"class_list":["post-38117","venice-film-festival","type-venice-film-festival","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vff-venice-film-festival-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venice-film-festival\/38117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venice-film-festival"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/venice-film-festival"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category-vff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animicaportraits.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category-vff?post=38117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}