Posts Tagged ‘Cannes festival

We often get asked about how to attend screenings at the Cannes festival. The short answer is yes, there is a way. And it’s called Cannes Cinephile, a programme that enables locals and visitors to possibly catch a screening or two. The locals are given special treatment. If they sign up for a badge by [...]

Here’s a deal for exhibitors attending the Cannes Film Festival 2010. Cannes or Bust has a special deal with the Eden, located just 10 minutes by foot from the Palais. A 10-night stay for €4,100 TTC for 1 or 2 people (in a single, double or twin room) includes buffet breakfast, free access [...]

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 [...]

According to an article in Travel Daily News, the Palais Stéphanie is now the owner of a fifth star. Built on the location of the original Palais des Festivals, the 261-room hotel is the most modern of the so-called “palaces” on the Croisette, previously known as the Noga Hilton. The process for earning the fifth [...]

Midem is just around the corner, with news, new speakers, lots of companies and individuals bringing new ideas. We’ll be following them closely.
We’re also already getting news from people preparing for the Cannes Film Festival in May. Sounds like a good time to start getting the relevant news straight to your desk rather than coming [...]

For about three years, I have been meaning to start blogging from my mobile phone. But I always wondered who would be interested. Although the capabilities are there, is there anyone out there really interested in reading what would be very short messages? Since then, of course, Twitter had made its appearance and seriously changed [...]

One of the most recurrent questions we receive this time of the year is, “How can I attend screenings at Cannes?” If you’ve looked around the net, you probably came up with a blank on this one. So here’s the inside deal: there are ways, but it’s not quite the glamorous process you think it [...]

The list of people demonstrating at Cannes has gone up again. This time, a priest is involved. The subject, needless to say, is the film version of “The Da Vinci Code”, the premise of which has been hotly disputed by religious circles and scholars for some time already. Fr. Bernard Francis Heffernan will stage a [...]


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Glamour, sunshine, contacts. Yup, you can get all that. But you could also get sore feet, hotels miles outside town and hefty bills. Check our tips for getting the most from your time in Cannes.

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