film - Cannes Film Festival
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In 1951, owing to better relations between France and Italy, the Cannes Festival was moved to Spring, while the Mostra remained in Autumn. In 1955 the Golden Palm was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. Its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities.
In 1972 Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President, and Maurice Bessy the Managing Director. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. The 63rd edition takes place from 12 May to 23 May 2010.
Although the initial spirit of the French festival was to compete with its Italian counterpart, a secret agreement took place between both nations, so that they will celebrate their international festivals in alternating years. Meanwhile, the Festival would obtain its current President, Gilles Jacob, in 2000, and in 2002 officially adopted the name Festival de Cannes. The festival has become an important showcase for European films.
Some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Milos Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The German attack on Poland on 1 September 1939, followed by the declaration of war against Germany by France and the United Kingdom on 3 September, ended the first edition of the festival before it started. The festival was relaunched after World War II in 1946, in the old Casino of Cannes, financed by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry and the City of Cannes.
In 1959 the Marché du Film (Film Market) was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes; Occitan: Festenal de Canas), founded in 1946, is one of the world s oldest and most prestigious film festivals.
Many towns were proposed as candidates, as Vichy, Biarritz or Algiers, although finally Cannes was the chosen one; thus, Le Festival International de Cannes was born. In June 1939, Louis Lumière agreed to be the president of the first festival, set to be held from 1 to 30 September 1939. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it.
The President of the Jury is to be American film director Tim Burton. The Cannes Film Festival is organised in various sections: Prior to the beginning of each event, the Festival’s board of directors appoints the juries who hold sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive the blessing of a Cannes award. He immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films.
Jill Forbes and Sarah Street argue in European Cinema: An Introduction, that Cannes became.extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality (page 20). Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe. Cannes on Television Berlin · Cannes · Cairo · Karlovy Vary · Locarno · Mar del Plata · Moscow · Montreal · San Sebastian · Shanghai · Tokyo · Venice Almaty · Bogota · Brussels · Cartagena · Courmayeur · Frankfurt · Ghent · Gijon · India (Goa) · Istanbul · Kerala (Trivandrum) · Kyiv · Los Angeles (AFI FEST) · Namur · Pusan · Sarajevo · Sitges · Stockholm · Sydney · Tallinn · Thessaloniki · Troïa · Turin · Valencia Jove · Valencia Mediterranean · Warsaw · Wiesbaden (goEast) Haugesund · Kolkata · London · Toronto · Vienna Bilbao · Krakow · Oberhausen · St. The Cinéfondation was completed in 2000 with La Résidence and in 2005 L Atelier.
In 1965 an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, and he was named Honorary President for life. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival.
In 1984 Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It wasn t until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection: la Cinéfondation. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors from all over the world, not succumbing to commercial tendencies.
The next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May 1968. On 18 May, filmmaker Louis Malle along with a group of directors took over the large room of the Palais and interrupted the projections in solidarity with students and labour on strike throughout France, During the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival.
Petersburg · Tampere Coordinates: 43°33′03.10″N 7°01′02.10″E / 43.550861°N 7.01725°E / 43.550861; 7.01725 . Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1983 a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival.
Moreover, the principle of equality was introduced, so that the jury was to be made up only of one representative per country. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce. In 1962 the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
The first Cannes Festival had a considerable success, so when the Franco-Italian agreement was made public it was heavily criticised and considered as a capitulation of France . The next year, in 1947, the festival was held again as the Festival du film de Cannes, dropping the international nature, but only in name, as films from sixteen countries were presented.
