Lucrecia Martel will serve as president of the jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Variety confirms. The Argentinian filmmaker’s last feature, “Zama,” premiered at the 2017 edition of the Italian festival.

Fest director Alberto Barbera, who has been outspoken about his disdain for gender quotas, described Martel as “Latin America’s most important female director and one of the top female directors worldwide.” He emphasized, “In her films, the originality of her stylistic research and her meticulous mise-en-scène are at the service of a worldview free of compromises, dedicated to exploring the mysteries of female sexuality and the dynamics of groups and classes.”

“It’s an honor, a responsibility, and a pleasure to be a part of this celebration of cinema, of humanity’s immense desire to understand itself,” said Martel.

Martel’s jury will decide Venice’s most prestigious honors, the Golden and Silver Lions. Other panel members have yet to be announced.

“I think that if you are born on the margins, on the frontier of power you have a chance of seeing things better rather than if you are inside the mainstream, in power,” Martel has said. “But only if you are self aware of what is going on and if you know how to use it.”

“Zama” premiered out-of-competition at Venice. An adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s 1956 novel of the same name, the period drama centers on a Spanish officer stationed in a remote South American town awaiting a transfer to Buenos Aires.

“La Ciénaga” (“The Swamp”), “La Nina Santa” (“The Holy Girl”), and “La Mujer sin Cabeza” (“The Headless Woman”) are among Martel’s other credits.

The 76th edition of Venice Film Festival will run from August 28 to September 7. The fest signed the 5050×2020 gender parity pledge last year. By signing the document, festival signatories promise to gather stats according to the filmmakers’ gender, identify the fest members who select films to screen, and develop a schedule to achieve equality on the festival board.