Director Del Toro says Cannes gives new talent a chance1 min read

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Mexican director Guillermo del Toro said as he arrived in Cannes to serve on the main film festival jury on Tuesday that having gotten his start there with a debut film in 1993, he now wanted to give new generations of filmmakers a chance.

Del Toro, director of the dark fantasy “Pan’s Labyrinth”, had his first film “Chronos” screened in Cannes. He will sit on a jury headed by the filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen for the festival, which opens on the French Riviera on Wednesday.

“It feels like a responsibility that I take very seriously, because Cannes started my life filmically when ‘Chronos’ won the Critics Week,” del Toro told reporters.

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