Cannes Festival blog

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Thanks for passing by: I (Bruno from filmfestivals) am proud to maintain this blog dedicated to the biggest film festival and its celebration of 63 years of filmmaking.
Let me introduce you to those responsible for these moments of grace and magic every single year mid may in Cannes:
This blog has a mission: helping filmmakers and emerging artists through visibilty at Cannes Film Festival in the SHORT FILM CORNER: this unique meeting place lets you present your short film at Cannes and meet professionals from all over the world.
Submit your shorts!

Simply register online and send you film today or until April 15th 2007, when registration will close.
Welcoming words from the Cannes festival director:
"Soon to be 60? That's so young for a Festival! It's barely the time it took Alfred Hitchcock to release doves on the steps of the Palais, the time of one twirl of Charlie Chaplin's walking stick, of one endless ovation to Ingmar Bergman when crowned Palme of Palmes, or the time to softly sing Tourbillon de la vie to Jeanne Moreau.... It's not surprising then, that, emboldened by such childhood memories, the Festival is still as demanding, as ambitious and as enthusiastic as ever! An inventive selection that is neither too traditional nor too sophisticated, a selection that is the most international in the world, open to all film genres and without forgetting the foremost among them - that of the love of film, a selection that is attentive to the arrival of new generations and which combines all the necessary conditions for the films to be hosted and honoured in the great tradition of the Festival de Cannes, a daring selection that seizes the best of the moment, a selection that creates desire, that triggers curiosity, that carries that certain vitality which currently fills film today and gives a hint of the film of tomorrow, a selection that helps these films, cinema, its creators and artists to exist and to continue their work...

As for the rest, always place film at the centre of our acts. Generally, to take nothing into account other than the art of film and the pre-eminence of artistic talent, finally to facilitate transmission, so that tomorrow's Festival can continue the adventure with the combined strengths of experience and modernity."

Cannes Film Festival Director
Gilles Jacob

A new Website for the Marché du Film
Welcome to the new version of marchedufilm.com. As you will see, we have developed the contents of our website and worked to make it even easier to use.

We are aiming, of course, at providing you with the best online tool to prepare your 2007 Marché du Film.
We are also striving to help the planet and for this reason we have chosen to reduce drastically the number of brochures we print, no longer sending them to participants who already know us and using instead our website and emails as means of communication.
Our team has worked hard, this year again, to make the 2007 Marché du Film the best place for cinema and business...
Come and start to discover it on this new website…

We look forward to seeing you in Cannes.
Jérôme Paillard
Executive Director

Do you need advice or promotion for your Festival or Your Film in Cannes?
Just ask for our help.
We can definitely help you for Cannes, with online - viral promotion and on-cannes assistance from our Festival Bureau located in the Palais, next to the Short Film Corner.
Bruno Chatelin
brunoATfilmfestivals.com