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44 unusual facts about Cannes


Adrian J. McDowall

In 2009, Adrian was included in a pool of eight writer directors as part of the filmmakers collective Advance Party II - the successor to Sigma Films and Zentropa’s Advance Party which produced Andrea Arnorld’s Cannes Jury Prize winning feature film Red Road, and Morag McKinnon’s Rounding Up Donkeys.

Alice Lowe

Lowe co-wrote and starred in the short film Stiffy, directed by Jacqueline Wright, which premiered at Cannes in 2005 as part of the Kodak Straight 8 competition.

Her self-penned short film Sticks and Balls was screened at Cannes in 2007.

Astra C

On 22 March 1913, using at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion, French operator Compagnie Générale Transaérienne started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating from Cannes to Nice.

Aumism

The holy city of Mandarom Shambhasalem was founded in 1969, about 50 kilometres northwest of Cannes.

Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars

In 1687 Saint-Mars became the governor of the two islands, Île Sainte-Marguerite and Île Saint-Honorat, in the gulf of Cannes (these islands are called today Îles de Lérins) until 1698.

Brian Wildsmith

From 1971 Wildsmith lived in France at Castellaras, a hill village near Cannes and Grasse, with his wife, Aurelie, and their four children, Clare, Rebecca, Anna and Simon.

Cini Foundation

It was established by Count Vittorio Cini in memory of his son who died in an airplane accident near Cannes in 1949.

De Bort

Léon Teisserenc de Bort (November 5, 1855 in Paris, France – January 2, 1913 in Cannes, France), French meteorologist

Deepak Sandhu

She has traveled extensively across the world representing India on varied issues that included, the International Film Festivals hosted in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Tokyo, the International Conference on Terrorism and Electronic Mass Media at Gelendzhik, Russia and Cyprus, and the Heads of News Meetings at Atlanta, USA and Beijing.

Dora Venter

She auditioned for pornography in late April 1999, and shot her first films several weeks afterwards, her second at the Cannes Hot D'Or.

Eduard Rhein

Prof. Eduard Rudolph Rhein (August 23, 1900, Königswinter – April 15, 1993, Cannes) was an inventor, publisher, and author.

Grand Veymont

On 10 February 2007, a twin-engine light aircraft flying from London to Cannes disappeared in a snowstorm over le Grand Veymont, crashing into the mountainside and killing all three people aboard.

Haris Džinović

While in Cannes, he got a proposal to make and sing the gipsy version of the famous song My Way, composed many years ago by Claude François, so unforgettably performed by Frank Sinatra.

Harriet Ludlow Clarke

Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 19 January 1866, Cannes) was a wood engraver and stained glass artist.

Jamie McDonnell

The fight, in Cannes on 20 March 2010, resulted in a surprise victory for the man from Doncaster with a 10th round stoppage over Arnould to lift his third title in a row.

János Görbe

His most famous films include the Cannes favorite The Round-Up (1965 film) by Jancsó or :hu:Föltámadott a tenger in which he played Hungary's national hero, poet Sándor Petőfi who perished in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Habsburgs.

Jean Ricardou

Jean Ricardou (b. Cannes, 17 June 1932) is a French writer and theorist of the nouveau roman literary movement.

John Francis Campbell

John Francis Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Frangan Caimbeul; Islay, 29 December 1821 – Cannes, 17 February 1885), also known as Young John of Islay (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Òg Ìle) was a renown Scottish author and scholar who specialised in Celtic studies.

Karl Gomes

Karl has won numerous awards at Cannes, Webby, One Show, New York Festivals, Asia Pacific Adfest, Abby and AAAI, including the 1st Indian Cyber Shortlist at Cannes 2006 for Timesjobs, the 1st Indian Webby award for a simple and intuitive multilingual portal for Life Insurance Corporation of India, the 1st Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes 2008 and India’s first Silver Pencil at the One Show Interactive 2009 for an Online campaign “highlighting what's important” for Luxor Highlighters.

Keith Ludeman

The family home in Shere, Surrey together with a holiday home in Cannes, were bought from the share sale proceeds of Go-Ahead's purchase of London General Omnibus.

Martanda Sydney Tondaiman

In 1938, while travelling between Cannes and Paris, Sydney met with a road accident and was left with a limp, which allowed him to use a Faberge cane that enhanced his already elegant appearance.

Mélanie Calvat

Calvat moved to Cannes in the south of France, from where she travelled to Chalon-sur-Saône, seeking to found a community with the sponsorship of the Canon de Brandt of Amiens.

Michel Kikoine

In 1958 he moved to Cannes on the Mediterranean coast where he returned to landscape painting until his death November 4, 1968.

Mo McRae

He produced and starred in "The Fall" which competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

Mousumi Bhowmik

Moushumi has also composed for Bengali documentary and art cinema, the most recent film Matir Moyna (The Clay Bird, dir. Tareque Masud) having won the Critics' Prize at Cannes in 2002 and Best Music at Kara Film Festival, Karachi in 2003.

Nam Phương

In 1947, after the Communist takeover of the country, the empress and her children moved to Château Thorens, outside of Cannes, France, which had been in the family since its purchase by her maternal grandfather in the early 20th century.

Ning Baizura

This film was entered into several film festivals in Cannes, Rotterdam and Singapore.

Norman Nato

Born in Cannes, Nato began his karting career in 1998 at age six, and eleven years later won the French KZ2 Championship.

Odette Hallowes

She made a landing near Cannes in 1942, where she made contact with her supervisor, Peter Churchill.

Osman Fuad

While in exile, Osman Fuad Efendi lived in many places including Geneva, Rome, Cairo, Paris, Nice and Cannes.

Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

He lived for many years in the South of France, and died in Cannes on 10 November 1980.

Philippa Campbell

She followed up Via Satellite by producing Christine Jeffs' acclaimed Rain, which premiered in Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2002 and was nominated for Best Film at the 2001 New Zealand Film Awards.

Phương Mai

In 1947, Nam Phương left Vietnam with her children and lived at the Chateau Thorens, outside of Cannes, France.

Prahlad Kakkar

Commercials directed by Prahlad have also been nominated for Lions at Cannes.

Prince Johann Georg of Saxony

He married for a second time to Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, fourth child and eldest daughter of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta and his wife Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 30 October 1906 in Cannes, France.

Qtrax

The company announced the launch of its service in January 2008, at the music industry's global conference MIDEM in Cannes.

Samantha Futerman

She then gained international acclaim when she played the role of, Satsu, in the critically acclaimed film, Memoirs of Geisha, opposite Golden Globe nominee, Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, and Cannes recipient Gong Li.

SS Conte Biancamano

On 14 July 1949, Conte Biancamano was placed on the GenoaBuenos Aires route until 21 March 1950 when she was moved to the Genoa – NaplesCannes – New York route.

Stefanía Fernández

She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).

Theodore Goddard

Goddard went straight to Downing Street to see Baldwin, as a result of which he was provided with an aeroplane to take him directly to Cannes.

Vivian Burkhardt

The couple spent time at Cannes where Vivian appeared on covers of popular magazines where she walked on the famed Red Carpet.

Washington Luiz de Paula

Born in Bauru, he was a standout youth player who was compared to Pelé after his performance for the Brazilian national youth team in a 1971 tournament in Cannes.

Wien Südbahnhof

Until 1914, the CIWL express from St. Petersburg to Cannes stopped there; a remnant of this line, the Vienna-Cannes express continued to travel to and from the Südbahnhof until 1939.


Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough

Paget was a highly successful yachtsman, winning the first prize in the open handicap race from Cannes to Monte Carlo in 1902, and winning the Tsar's prize at Cowes Week in 1909.

AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

It regularly holds benefit events, including Cinema Against AIDS galas in Cannes, Dubai, and Toronto; annual gala events in New York and San Francisco; and TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, held in Dallas.

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Ben Barenholtz

He supported the Coen brothers directorial debut through several titles such as, Blood Simple, Barton Fink (Awarded at the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm & Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award), and Miller's crossing (San Sebastián International Film's Best Director award).

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Bus Azur

The operator, Veolia Transport Cannes is responsible for operating the Bus Azur buses for SITP, grouping the communes of Cannes, le Cannet et Mandelieu-la-Napoule.

Cassiopée

She started her professional career by performing in over 500 shows by the French-traditional cabaret company's Les Folie's De Paris in Quebec City, Canada and then in Lille and Cannes, France, as a dancer, magician's assistant, entertainer, and lead singer, before moving to Montreal in 2000 as the star of another cabaret and musical company, La Troupe Paris Paris.

Cyriac Roeding

He later co-founded the mobile marketing firm 12snap in Munich, London and Milan, which worked with Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nokia, L'Oreal and others and won the first Lion Awards for mobile creative concepts in Cannes.

Don the Beachcomber

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star while setting up rest camps for combat-weary airmen of the 12th and 15th Air Forces in Capri, Nice, Cannes, the French Riviera, Venice, the Lido and Sorrento at the order of his friend, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle.

Douglas Urbanski

For 1997's Cannes Film Festival, Nil By Mouth was selected to inaugurate the Main Competition and received the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Award for actress Kathy Burke.

EasyCruise

The service began by operating night-time departures calling between ports in St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Imperia, Genoa and Portofino in the summer.

Frank Goldsmith

Goldsmith eventually built up a portfolio of 48 hotels including the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, the Carlton in Cannes and the Lotti in Paris.

French Riviera Marathon

The race begins in the Albert I Garden in Nice, and then progresses along the French Riviera, visiting Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Villeneuve-Loubet, Juan-les-Pins and Golfe-Juan before arriving in Cannes and finishing on the Promenade de la Croisette, in front of the Carlton Cannes hotel.

Guillermo Arriaga

Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he wrote the screenplay of Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Hur Jin-ho

Many of his feature films, Christmas in August (shown at the Critics' Week in Cannes in 1998), One Fine Spring Day (2001), April Snow (2005), Happiness (2007) and A Good Rain Knows (2009) are variations on Hur's favorite theme: love.

Jimmy Smallhorne

At the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced that Smallhorne would direct his comedy screenplay Pushers Needed with an all-star cast of Joan Allen, Claire Danes, Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith.

Karl Heeremans

From this time on, numerous awards and recognitions were presented to him, such as the 1964 - price of Namur, Belgium 1962–1967 Italian Olivetti, Knokke and Ronse, Belgium and Cannes, France.

Liam McMahon

The film premiered in Cannes 2008, where it opened the official sidebar section, Un Certain Regard and would go on to win the Golden Camera award (Camera d'or).

Palais des Festivals et des Congrès

In response to the growing success of the Festival and the advent of the first business conventions, such as the MIPTV Media Market since 1965, the City of Cannes decided to build a new Palais in 1979.

Patrick Conrad

He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival – Mascara with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Sarazin.

Pierre Ancelin

Born in Cannes, Ancelin studied pedagogy and music history at the conservatories of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, then followed the course of aesthetics of Olivier Messiaen in Paris.

Rainer Kuhlmey

He has won several national titles (including the 1968 German Team Championships with Eintracht Frankfurt), took part in several international tournaments, such as Beaulieu and Cannes Championships, and represented Germany in the main draw of the 1971 French Open – Men's Singles competition at Roland Garros, Paris.

Robert Soetens

On his repatriation he became leader-soloist of an orchestra at Aix-les-Bains, and later with orchestras at Cannes (where André Messager was one of the conductors), Deauville, and Angers.

She's a Fox

She's a Fox was an Official Selection in numerous film festivals throughout the United States and internationally, most notably the Cannes Short Film Corner, Heartland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and the Academy-accredited LA Shorts Fest.

The Rock Pool

The novel is set in "Trou-sur-mer" (Hole on the Sea), which is said to based on Cagnes-sur-Mer between Cannes and Nice.

Thomas Bloch

Among other awards, he has won: the Classical Music Award 200 given by European critics in Cannes Midem, Victoires de la Musique and Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, four times best soundtrack during the World subaquatic Movies Festival in Antibes, The Choice of Gramophon, Best of the Year 2001 in Audiophile, and Choc in Le Monde de la Musique for his interpretation of the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Messiaen.

Tom Brook

The longevity of the series has also allowed Brook to report from some of the world’s top film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto.