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FRANCE | Cannes | May
Cannes International Film Festival
(plus market)
Deadline: March
Categories: Competition: feature-length films and shorts; non-competitive section: "Un Certain Regard", "Out of Competition"; Cinéfondation film schools section (medium-length and short films, see separate entry)
Requirements: 35mm only. Films must have been produced during 12 months before festival and must not have been shown previously outside the country of origin. Short films must not exceed 15 minutes
Awards: Palme d'Or, Grand Prix, award for best actress and best actor, best director, best screenplay, Jury Prize (awarded to a technician), the Palme d'Or to the best short film, The Caméra d'Or to the best first-time feature film of any category
Fees: None
Administrative address: Festival de Cannes, Film Department, 3, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 59 61 71
Fax: +33 (0)1 53 59 61 70
Email address: laurent.rivoire@festival-cannes.fr
General Manager: Veronique Cayla
Artistic Director: Thierry Fremaux
Website:
http://www.festival-cannes.com
Visitor Report
Cannes Film Festival Report
By Osbert Parker (Jan 15, 2007)
As you would expect is extremely well run and very effective. I believe this is the case because most of the festival staff are a family that come back year after year. Christian Jeune the department director of films at the festival has been there for something like 13 years and his devoted team also there for many years are encouraged to hang out and socialize together even outside of the festival period. This bond gives the individuals a sense of trust and almost 'ESP' communicative skill that makes your request happen in a fraction of the time other festivals may take and if one person cannot help, they immediately get onto someone they know that can. It's a great feeling after you've spent blood, sweat, tears and a lot of money making your short that you feel taken care of during the festival with exclusive parties occasionally on offer.
The Short Film corner here at Cannes is a very good idea and well organised with excellent video facilities to watch all films submitted for consideration. However this area is swamped with delegates in the same position as everyone else. If you are lucky enough to have your film selected for competition it becomes an industry and audience magnet which helps separate your film from the thousand others.
Even with a film in competition I still felt after my industry conversations with people like, 'Film Finders' that Cannes likes and supports shorts, but are more interested in features. A film in competition opened doors, but they really wanted to know if I had a feature idea they could potentially finance, not another short. 'Shorts don't make money' was their repeated statement.
Future short film makers wheather they believe this or not, should go to Cannes with this firmly in mind and if they have a feature proposal they must take it with them just to get the development ball rolling up this long and very steep hill.
Osbert Parker visited the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 while his short film Film Noir was in competition.
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