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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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Attending the Cannes 2012 festival for free
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6th Cannes airshow coincides with 100th anniversary of Cannes airport
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TFWA to examine duty free and travel retail
Tough, but promising. The news from the travel retail and duty-free market is optimistic. But this is one sector that has to react quickly to market changes. This year’s Cannes event will explore how the industry is reinventing itself and what more can be done to provide fresh impetus. Themed “A new era: reinventing duty [...]
TFWA: luxury products and Mika on the menu
TFWA, the annual luxury fair, will kick off next month in Cannes with a number of innovations. The most important is at the site itself, which now features a larger space, the new Golden Village and Marine Croisette areas. New exhibitors this year include Polaroid Eyewear, Chinese cosmetics brand Herborist, La Martiniquaise rum and Danish [...]
Prince candidate for Nice Jazz Festival
Since Prince played Nice in France yesterday and followed up the show with an after party at the Palais club in Cannes, rumours have been circulating that the Minneapolis musician has plans to take over the Nice Jazz Festival. The annual event has been leaking money for some time, and it is known that the [...]
3 million euros in play at poker tournament in Cannes
The big news in Cannes poker is that the Main Event of the Season 3 Partouche Poker Tournament will take place September 2-7 2010 at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. The organisers are guaranteeing a monumental €3 million in prize money, which makes it one of France’s most important events. The last season saw [...]
Electronic music on the beach in Cannes this summer
On July 13, the beach at Cannes will become a massive dancefloor for the fifth time. Between now and August 17, five nights of electronic music will bring together a happy crowd for what is France’s only beach festival. Les Plages Electroniques is a fun event, attracting a young crowd from across the south of [...]
MassiveMusic celebrates 10th anniversary at Cannes Lions
In the summer of 2000, MassiveMusic heralded its birth with a party on a beach in Cannes during the annual International Advertising Festival, Cannes Lions. On the 23rd of June, MassiveMusic will host its 10th party with clients and friends on that same beach in Cannes. A lot has happened since 2000. The seed that [...]
Dennis Hopper RIP
Actor, director and all-round Hollywood legend has died in Venice, California, of cancer at the age of 74. Hopper, who first came to fame with “Easy Rider”, had a very varied career but was a regular visitor to Cannes. The above clip from French archives shows him and Dean Stockwell riding along the Croisette in [...]
Cannes parties: where to go in 2010
The party scene in Cannes is a whole side-business of its own. Initially what was intended as a way of giving a film a boost has become a highly-regulated industry run by professionals from the nightlife and fashion sectors. The parties have been scaled down considerably in recent years, with events in nightclubs or on [...]
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 [...]
Getting to Cannes for free
Yes, everything is possible at Cannes, even getting there for free. If you enjoy contests, the good news is that Cannes is often used as a prize. Villas with pools, red carpet premieres, exclusive receptions, beach-side parties; I don’t want to rub it in, but people do actually give all these things away for free. [...]