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24 unusual facts about Cannes Film Festival


A Flame in the Wind

It was created by Raphael Hayes, co-author of the Cannes Film Festival winner One Potato, Two Potato and Joseph Hardy, producer of fellow soap opera Love of Life.

Alain Terzian

Alain Terzian (born 2 May 1949, Paris, France) is a French-Armenian film producer, Administrator of Cannes Film Festival jury, President of Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.

André Devigny

It mostly featured non-professional actors and won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Andrew Daddo

He hosted World's Greatest Commercials, which ran from 1995 to 1996 (and also had occasional Cannes Film Festival specials until the late 1990s) as well as the Australian adaptation of Kids Say the Darndest Things.

B. D. Hyman

B.D. met Jeremy Hyman, the British nephew of Seven Arts owner Elliott Hyman on a blind date for the film's showing at the Cannes Film Festival, and the couple wed when B.D. was sixteen and Jeremy was 29.

Cannes Film Festival

Some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition.

Chanda Dancy

Music by Chanda has been heard all over the world in such festivals as Cannes Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Slamdance, Sundance and Pangea Day 2008.

Jason Fuchs

Fuchs wrote, produced and starred in the 2006 short film Pitch, which made its premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Lamorne Morris

Morris has appeared in several award-winning independent films and shorts including April Fools (Code Black), One Word (Panel Select at Cannes) and voiceover work for animated comedy Urban Group Squirrels.

Les Anges Exterminateurs

It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2006 and had a limited release in the United States on 7 March 2007.

Lives of Style

The show reports on New York, Paris, Milan, and London fashion weeks, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, Hollywood Premieres, Fashion’s Night Out, Concours d’Elegance, Napa Wine Auction and the Cannes Film Festival.

Mario Nuzzolese

Always moved by his passion for culture, art and politics, he participated several times to the Annual Academy Awards, Festival de Cannes and Venice Film Festival.

Out There with Melissa DiMarco

The show also prominently features events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Music Week, and the Cannes Film Festival.

Philippe Tailliez

He was awarded, again together with Cousteau and Dumas, the CIDALC Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival for their film Epaves (shipwrecks).

Sesham

The film ends when her movie titled Timepiece bags award for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Steve Evets

This role saw him tipped for the Best Actor award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Steve Ihnat

At the age of thirty-seven, he suffered a heart attack while visiting the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was promoting his "Do Not Throw Cushions in the Ring."

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Its only public screenings were at film festivals in Seattle and Palm Springs, as well as a Cannes release in 1989.

Swimmer One

Film-maker Daniel Warren has made several films featuring Swimmer One's music which have been screened at film festivals worldwide including the Edinburgh Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, and also collaborated with the band on Whatever Gets You Through The Night.

Ted Marcus

In addition to drumming, Marcus was Senior Audio Engineer and Sound Designer for MTV, mixed the Emmy Award winning short film StandFast: Trip to Sudan, and mixed and did sound design for the film Pitch, which was accepted at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Amtrak Wars

In 2008-09 Patrick Tilley wrote a draft of the first script, entitled like the book, Cloud Warrior, and the production company continued pursuing the project in 2010, showing the script and tentative production artwork to several companies at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tichi Wilkerson Kassel

For that accomplishment, she was feted at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.

Wiggin LLP

Partners Charles Moore and Miles Ketley advised the film's creators on how to get the best deal from potential financiers and helped promote the film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Zlatko Grgić

His other credits include the 1965 animated shorts Peti and Đavolja Posla; Muzikalno prase (The Music Pig) (1966), winner of the Palme d'or at Cannes Film Festival, and the 1968 shorts Tolerance and Suitcase.


Ankur Bhatia

The film was selected in over 10 film festivals worldwide, including Cannes Film Festival Short film Corner in France and River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival in Italy.

Anthony Sperduti

He has also conceived and produced on award-winning short film projects, "Pol Pot's Birthday" and "Dimmer," shown at Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.

Aoi Miyazaki

The film won the International Federation of Film Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2000, and resulted in her receiving the Best Actress award at the Japanese Professional Movie Awards.

Avion Films

Located in Toronto, Avion produced notable advertisements like the original Truth in Advertising film, and its work has won numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

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.

Baki Davrak

Baki Davrak (born 1971 in Bad Säckingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a Turkish-German actor who is known for his leading role in the film The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) which won the Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Barry Greenwald

While in his final year as a student at Conestoga College, he directed the 1975 film Metamorphosis, inspired by Czech documentary filmmaker Vaclav Taborsky, which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Bradford Scobie

Gas Huffin' Bad Gals!, a film written by and starring Scobie, was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Outfest festival in Los Angeles, and was aired on BBC television in England.

Brillante Mendoza

He won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

Daniel Wachsmann

1989: The Intended (Hebrew: המיועד) – Wolgin Prize, Jerusalem Film Festival; Cannes Film Festival; Shanghai International Film Festival

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.

Go-fast boat

The film, directed and produced by Silvio Sardi and narrated by Andy Garcia, won Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival after a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Grim Natwick Film Festival

Guest for the 2012 Festival held 22 to 24 June included Tim Decker, lecturer in animation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and former layout artist and animator of The Simpsons, John Roberts, director of Cannes Film Festival shown Mary's Friend and The Wheel, together with returning guests Mahoney, Simms, and Strenger.

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.

Hichkas

"No One Knows About Persian Cats" (2009) feature film directed by Bahman Ghobadi, which won an Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize Ex-aequo at the Cannes Film Festival.

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.

Jacques Gelman

Los tres mosqueteros and Romeo y Julieta were produced during this period, and Los tres mosqueteros was selected to be screened at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

Jodhi May

The role earned her a Best Actress award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, shared with her co-stars Barbara Hershey and Linda Mvusi.

La Mano Ajena

The show given by La Mano Ajena was praised by some of the most important guests of the festival, like the American director Jim Jarmusch and Thierry Frémaux, head of Cannes Film Festival.

Mai Zetterling

Her first feature film Älskande par (1964, "Loving Couples"), based on the novels of Agnes von Krusenstjerna, was banned at the Cannes Film Festival for its sexual explicitness and nudity.

Martha Fiennes

Following Onegin, Fiennes wrote her second feature film, Chromophobia – an original multi-stranded drama, which comprised an all star cast and which closed the Cannes Film Festival (2005).

Michel Brault

In 1974, Brault directed Les Ordres, about the 1970 October crisis and won the 1975 Cannes Film Festival award for best director and the 1975 Canadian Film Award for best direction.

Nonpartisan League

A fairly accurate portrayal of the founding of the NPL was dramatized in the 1978 film Northern Lights, starring Joe Spano, which won the 1980 Camera d'Or award for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Their next film Padre padrone (1977) (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), taken from a novel by Gavino Ledda, speaks of the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the cruel rules of his patriarchal society.

Porque te vas

Only when the song was used in Carlos Saura's 1976 film Cría Cuervos (Raising Crows), and the film went on to be honored at the Cannes Film Festival (Jury grand prize) and the Berlin Film Festival (jury special prize), did the song become internationally known and a hit.

Primum Entertainment Group

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009, Primum Entertainment Group acquired the license to produce Rio, Eu Te Amo the next film in the series of Cities of Love motion pictures following Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You.

Roschdy Zem

He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film Days of Glory at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Sarabeth Tucek

She contributed several songs to the soundtrack of the film Shit Year, directed by Cam Archer, which went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.

Sétif and Guelma massacre

When Outside the law by Rachid Bouchareb was nominated best picture in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, French pied noir, harkis and war veterans demonstrated against the film being shown in French cinemas, accusing it of distorting reality.