I am a Communications major and French minor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, USADuring the festival I worked with fest21.com and CFC to organize 5 events throughout the festival on The Future of Cinema. I helped with setting up the events, welcoming guests, and promoting the events. I also blogged for the website on topics such as Indiana Jones, Cursed for Gold, Une Conte de Noel, and the Cinema de la Plage. During the festival, I was able to attend the premiere's of Kung Fu Panda, Two L...

English major and Film studies minor at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, USADuring the Festival I worked mainly with representatives of the Canadian Film Center to coordinate the Future of Cinema Salon Series that Fest21 was hosting in conjunction with CFC and the Canadian Film Board. We put on two MingleTalk/networking events on the Future of Distribution and Finance, a Future of Blockbuster Panel and a demo screening of Late Fragment. I worked a lot on publicizing the events around...

As the Official Partner of the Cannes Film Festival, XDC is providing all of the necessary equipment and expertise to support over 100 digital screenings including the parallel sections during the May competition, to more than 18 Cannes theatre rooms - including the famous Louis Lumière auditorium.A focus on XDC during the 61st Cannes Film Festival. XDC Booth #206 is installed in the “Village International Pantiero” along the Cannes harbour. We are sharing the booth with Wallimage, the Wall...

Award winners  Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-54) Year Film Director Nationality of Director (at time of film's release) 1939 Union Pacific[4] Cecil B. DeMille  United States 1946 Torment (Hets) Alf Sjöberg  Sweden The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder  United States Red Me...

"The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is certainly entertaining in typical Indiana Jones style. The film is likely to feed the minds of skeptics where crystal skulls are concerned because of the strong extraterrestrial theme, but people who are into ET's and UFO's will be thrilled. On the www.CrystalSkulls.com website and its related links, you will find more intriguing information about the legends, theories, secrets and mysteries regarding actual crystal skulls. Some of the real stories...

      At long last The Palm d'Or goes to a local film Betweens the wall: a French Palm much awaited for the past 21 years (The last helmer to receive some gold in the Palais was Maurice Pialat in 1987 for "Under the Sun of Satan" - Sous le soleil de Satan.)The official Jury of this 61st Fesival de Cannes, présided over by Sean Penn, revealed this evening the Prize winners during the closing Ceremony. Édouard Baer hosted Robert de Niro on the stage of the...

  Monday, May 26--------With major U.S. distribution companies, for the most part, sitting out this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there was some last minute activity as the Festival came to a close this past weekend. Among the winners announced on Sunday (a European clean sweep), only Three Monkeys, the latest film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won the Best Director prize), has a U.S. distributor in place. New Yorker Films, a specialty outfit, picked up the rights prior to the ...

Aside from the official Festival de Cannes awards, other organizations award prizes to films presented at the Festival. Here are the winners: Eldorado by Bouli Lanners, selected for Directors' Fortnight, received both the "Label Europa Cinémas" Prize, awarded to the best European film in Directors' Fortnight, and the "Regards Jeunes" Prize, given to a director's first or second feature. God's Offices by Claire Simon is the laureate of the SACD Prize awarded by the Société ...

The film: Wim Wenders continues his love story with the Festival de Cannes, presenting today in Competition, Palermo Shooting. The German director won the Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas in 1984, Best Director for Wings of Desire in 1987 and the Grand Jury Prize for Faraway, So Close! in 1993. He also served as President of the Caméra d’Or Jury in 2003 and President of the Official Selection in 1989. “Films are first and foremost supposed to tell stories, explained the director. Sure. In...

Laurent Cantet Entre les Murs - The classThe film:The Class, the third French film to be presented in Competition for the Palme d’Or, marks director Laurent Cantet's first journey to Cannes. Cantet, director of such socially aware films as Human Resources and Time Out, pursues similar issues with his adaptation of the autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau, a young French teacher in a tough junior high school. Determined to instruct without breaking his students' spirits, he refuses to...

The film:My Magic, screening in Competition, is a second occasion for the Festival de Cannes to welcome Eric Khoo, after Twelve Storeys, which was selected by Un Certain Regard in 1997. My Magic speaks of love, filial bonds, redemption, and... magic. "It's certainly my most personal film," explains the Singaporean director. "I am a dad myself and for the longest time, I’ve wanted to do a movie about a father and son, the obstacles in their relationship and how they get together ...

The film:Il Divo is the second Italian film in the running for a Palme d'Or, following upon Gomorra, and the third by director Paolo Sorrentino to be premiered at the Festival de Cannes, after Consequences of Love in 2004 and The Family Friend in 2006. Il Divo is a feature-length portrait of Giulio Andreotti, an emblematic figure in the past four decades of Italian politics. In the early 1990s, this sly, shrewd, and impenetrable Christian Democrat was heading for his seventh term as Prime Minist...

The film: For his first feature as director, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman was selected for the Festival de Cannes Competition in the running for the Palme d'Or, but he is also eligible for the Caméra d’Or. He came to the Croisette once before, with Michel Gondry's film Human Nature (2001), on which he was the screenwriter. Synecdoche, New York is another example of his eccentric and playful vision, a systematic mise en abîme of the life of theater director Caden, anti-hero and...