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Scriptwriters to make a mark at Cannes 2012

Scriptwriters to make a mark at Cannes 2012

A bunch of French scriptwriters have been running special events at the Cannes Film Festival for several years, and will be back with lots of activities in 2012. The “Maison des Scénaristes” brings together filmmakers, producers and broadcasters around scriptwriting. From a villa about 15 mins from the Palais, they host discussions, script services, cocktails [...]

Presenting projects at Cannes (in French)

Presenting projects at Cannes (in French)

Anyone attending the Cannes fest with a project might be interested in reading about Tunerz. This is a project I put together with Gaétan Cardella last year, where we presented an outline and some collateral to a number of partners. It’s interesting as we are mining a niche, Europe’s tuning scene, that offers lots of [...]

Iron Maiden singer to unveil film at Cannes

Looks like it’s that time of the year already, when the offbeat and unusual get their headlines by virtue of turning up at Cannes. According to a report in the BBC, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson will unveil a film at this year’s Cannes festival. “Chemical Wedding” stars Simon Callow as Professor Haddo, the reincarnation [...]

UK seminar for filmmakers

Two heavyweights are coming together to enable UK filmmakers to prepare for Cannes. Chris Jones, himself a filmmaker and author of the highly recommended “Guerrilla Film Makers Handbook”, and Ben Craig, who runs CannesGuide.com and writes the equally-recommended “Virgin’s Guide to Cannes” (right), will host an event at the Ealing Studios on March 20. I [...]

Scriptwriters make noise at Cannes

Scriptwriters make noise at Cannes

Following the lead of 101 Scénaristes last year, Cannes will feature a number of scriptwriting initiatives. The largest will probably be the Journées du Scénario/Writers’ Days being run by France’s enterprising UGS. They have set up a database of available scripts and will run a Script Market, sailing events and lots of talks and round [...]