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Italy’s Nanni Moretto to preside the Cannes jury
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Hotel Colette: Cannes newest 4-star hotel
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6th Cannes airshow coincides with 100th anniversary of Cannes airport
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Cannes Independent Film Festival announces winners
The Cannes Independent Film Festival 2010 has announced its awards, concluding a 10-day festival which showcased the best of low budget filmmaking. The festival, which runs alongside but is completely independent of the Festival de Cannes, focuses on celebrating indie filmmakers.
Sony World Photography Award winners announced in Cannes
The L’Iris d’Or and professional category winners of the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards were announced on Thursday 22 April, at the Sony World Photography Awards Ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. The 12 professional winners spanned categories as diverse as fashion, architecture, current affairs and sport and were revealed alongside the [...]
Pan-African Film Festival opens in Cannes
Until April 25, Cannes is home to the annual Pan-African Film Festival. Each year it celebrates movies from Africa and the diaspora. In 2010, this includes films from South Africa, Morocco, Jamaica, Nigeria and Mozambique. The festival also celebrates fashion and features music performances most nights. Films are screened at the Cinema Star and Espace [...]
Submit your film to Cannes in a Van
I remember trying to sell a corporate sponsor the idea of organising projections of short films in a large car or small van during the festival. It didn’t happen. But luckily someone else had the bottle to get up and do it without the corporate shilling. Cannes in a Van is billed as the world’s [...]
MIPTV to showcase new format talent
TV formats are hot, which is why MIPTV lanuched MIPFormats, dedicated to the booming formats market. They are following it up with the Fresh Talent Pitch, 10 original ideas for non-scripted concepts chosen from 110 submissions “designed to identify the successful formats of tomorrow,” said Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed Midem’s Television Division. The 10 [...]
Cannes Independent Film Festival open for submissions
The Cannes Independent Film Festival (which is not officially affiliated with the Cannes festival itself) presents selections during the Marché du Film, the international film marketplace where films are bought and sold in Cannes. Several films from CIFF 2009 were sold in the Marché du Film and went on to international release, including I AM [...]
Coca-Cola to award €10,000 development contract at MIPTV
Coca-Cola and ad agency Ogilvy have announced they will award a €10,000 development contract at MIPTV 2010 for the best branded content idea to engage teens, as part of the 5th annual Content 360 Challenge. The idea can take the shape of a TV show, a web movie series, a mobile application or ad game, [...]
Najibullah Salamzy wins WSOB in Cannes
Najibullah Salamzy won against TEAM WSOB player Falafel Natanzon in the World Series of Backgammon at the Palm Beach in Cannes on July 26. Natanzon had previously won all 10 of his earlier matches, yet – according to commentator Will Cockerell – failed in an attempt to impress the cool-as-ice Salamzy (one of the most [...]
Politics pick up awards at Cannes Lions
Politics is generally the very last subject that is talked about at Cannes. So I was surprised to find that two political campaigns left Cannes with trophies to put on their mantelpieces. Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign picked up two awards for its combination of new media, door-to-door and grass roots campaigning along with highly tactical [...]
South African film wins Cannes award
The International Festival of Pan-African film in Cannes, which celebrates the best cinema from Africa and the African diaspora, has announced the following results. The Dikalo for the best full-length feature: “Izulu de Lami, My Secret Sky” by Madoda Ncayiyana – South Africa 2008 The Dikalo for the best fiction short: “The Birthday Party” by [...]