Two-time Oscar winner Christopher Waltz will head the jury for the filmmaker award at the 11th Zurich Film Festival, which will open on September 24.
The Zurich Filmmaker Award, which rewards an unfinished film from a Swiss director, comes with a cash bursary of USD 104,000.
Waltz will attend the Zurich festival opening on September 26 and will present a special gala screening of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds", the film that launched his international career.
The actor, along with Swiss director Marc Forster (World War Z), Zurich festival co-director Karl Spoerri and Georges Kern, CEO of luxury watch group IWC Schaffhausen, a major festival sponsor, will pick the best new Swiss film project at this year's event.
The four finalists this year are the documentary "Europe, She Loves" from director Jan Gassmann; Dominik Locher's drama "Goliath"; and two features based on real-life events: Michael Steiner's "Tomorrow You'll Be Dead", the story of two Swiss citizens captured by the Taliban in 2011; and Hannes Baumgartner's "The Gun Runner", which tells the story of Swiss long-distance runner, and serial criminal, Jonas Fischer.
The cash prize will go to completing production on the winning film.
The 11th Zurich Film Festival runs till October 4.
