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Games festival celebrates 25th anniversary

Games festival celebrates 25th anniversary

After welcoming 150,000 visitors last year, the Cannes’ Festival des Jeux hopes to do better between February 25-27, 2010. The 25th edition of the event will feature tournaments, encounters with games in development, video games, mangas, special all-night sessions and much more. One of the highights will be a selection of the very best games [...]

Cannes Independent Film Festival open for submissions

Cannes Independent Film Festival open for submissions

Nothing to do with the official festival, the Cannes Independent Film Festival is a standalone sidebar that hopes to promote indie and low budget film-making during the big event. The 4th edition promises outdoor film screenings, networking, speed-dating and enlightening panels of filmmakers and Q&As. There’s a fee to submit films, and screenings take place [...]

MIPTV looking for “game-changing ideas”

MIPTV looking for “game-changing ideas”

Content360, MIPTV’s digital media pitch contest, is open for registrations until February 21, 2011. The event allows developers and application owners to pitch new concepts in audience engagement to the global TV & media industry at MIPTV 2011, 4-7 April in Cannes, France. Four categories enable companies the opportunity to win international recognition, meet new [...]

World Series of Poker Europe to move to Cannes

World Series of Poker Europe to move to Cannes

Hot news this week is that Cannes is going to host another major poker event later in the year: the World Series of Poker (WSOP). For the past four years, this has been held in London. But between October 7-21, the gaming will be held at the Casino Barrière and Hotel Majestic. The new venue [...]

Pan-African film festival open for entries

Pan-African film festival open for entries

Anyone involved in films from Africa or the diaspora should check Cannes’ 8th Pan-African Film festival, held every year in April. The festival features the latest films, as well as a programme of music, fashion and parties in various locations around town. It brings together an interesting selection of people from movies, and the performing [...]

Green fair opens in Cannes

Green fair opens in Cannes

The GETIS 2011 Exhibition that is being held in Cannes will for the first time bring together leading professionals of the green industry to promote a new cooperative model between decision-makers and businesses. The event is  focusing on 5 issues: Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean, Buildings, Transport, Modes of Consumption and Preventing Climate Change. Over [...]

Fringe to bring more live shows to Midem

Fringe to bring more live shows to Midem

One of the complaints made about Midem in recent years was the drop in live shows. The good news is that Midem 2011 has started a new sidebar for younger or lesser-known acts. 21 groups drawn from Canada, Germany, France, Austria, the United States, Russia, Spain and Britain, will perform live between January 23 and [...]

Cannes Pan-African Film Fest gets new president

Cannes Pan-African Film Fest gets new president

Latest news from the 8th Pan-African Film Festival in Cannes is that the RFI journalist Catherine Ruelle has been nominated as honorary president. Ruelle joined Radio France in 1969, which became RFI two years later.  Working there as a journalist, she began specializing in cinema in 1973, producing Dialogues, Cinémas Sans Frontières and L’Actualité du [...]

New Year’s firework show in Cannes

New Year’s firework show in Cannes

It’s not exactly news that Cannes has a superb tradition of spectacular fireworks. The summer-long fireworks festival has a mid-winter extension, as the winner of the festival is invited to provide the annual firework show on New Year’s Eve. In 2010, this means that Fabrice Chouillier will be treating the thousands of Cannois and guests [...]

Salsa to welcome the New Year in Cannes

Salsa to welcome the New Year in Cannes

After recently hosting a tango festival, Cannes will go salsa for the New Year, with the Cannes Salsa Congress. Between December 29 and 31 2010, the town will host a series of lessons, shows and of course a salsa New Years Party at the Palais Stephanie Hotel. The list of teachers and performers is impressive, [...]