Jane Campion to Lead Cannes Film Festival Jury The New Zealand director Jane Campion will lead the feature film jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the festival announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the organizers noted that Ms. Campion is the only female director to have won the festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, for her 1993 film "The Piano," starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. Ms. Campion, who last year headed the festival jury for short films, first appeared at Cannes with three shorts in 1986. "It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed careers are made, I know this because that is what happened to me," Ms. Campion said in the statement. Ms. Campion, whose television series "Top of the Lake" was seen on the Sundance Channel this year, most recently directed "Bright Star," about John Keats and his muse. Her earlier films include "An Angel at My Table" (1990) about the New Zealand writer Janet Frame and "The Portrait of a Lady" (1996) with Nicole Kidman. The festival will take place in the French resort town from May 14 to 25. Last year the Palme d'Or went to "Blue Is the Warmest Color," directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, while "Inside Llewyn Davis," directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, won the second honor, the Grand Prix.