Agnès Varda Walked To The Beat Of her Own
Drum: The Independents Don't Die They Are A
Cult As A Genre Film Hits A High At Cannes
The Festival de Cannes and Kerings Women in Motion both pay tribute in posters to the fabulous, talented and extraordinary Belgian-born French film director, photographer and artist Agnès Varda. Her pioneering work was critical to the development of the lasting influence of the French New Wave film movement ... Read more

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu President Of The
Festival de Cannes 2019 Assumes The Role
Invigorated With A Sense Of Passion & Devotion
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu is the first Latino-American filmmaker to take the role of President of the Cannes Film Festival Jury 2019. He is joined by a diverse and inclusionary jury of four women and four men, from four continents and among seven nationalities. Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux have commented ... Read more

Women In Motion Cannes 2019 Pays
Tribute To The Extraordinary Agnès Varda
For Cannes 2019 Kering uses the official poster of Women In Motion to pay tribute to Agnès Varda, as the great filmmaker represented everything that the program stands for. She was a leading figure in the program from the first edition onward, speaking on several occasions with her characteristic passion and imagination about her battles, feminism and the solutions she proposed ... Read more

Danielle Raaphorst Has Built Incredible Film
On The Family Genre & Its Ongoing Success
Is Underscored With A Commitment To Detail
And Client Service As It Celebrates Its 10th
Anniversary Selling Dutch Films Globally
Based in the Netherlands, Incredible Film was founded ten years ago by Danielle Raaphorst who is also an independent producer. Raaphorst saw the opportunity for a local boutique Sales Agency ... Read more

Netflix And Streaming Has Changed The Dynamics
Of The Production And Distribution Landscape Globally:
What Of The Effects On Below-The-Line Talent In
The Production Chain & Cross-Correlation Between
Feature Films & Productions For Worldwide Television?
In Conversation with The Business of Film (TBOF) Frank Walsh, Art Director and Production Designer, discusses how the working environment has changed for below-the-line ... Read more

Brigitte Drodtloff To Direct Chopin’s Wunderkind
Forgotten & Remarkable True Story Of Piano
Prodigy Carl Filtsch From Transylvania
Brigitte Drodtloff, Writer and Director, is currently in the final throes on the preproduction of lensing Chopin’s Wunderkind, the remarkable forgotten true story of child prodigy Carl Filtsch. Filtsch was born in 1839 and at just nine years old had one big dream ... Read more

Vanessa Kirby Cast In Leading
Role For Space Drama StarDream
Silver Reel and Bigscope Films have cast British actor Vanessa Kirby for the lead role in Björn Runge’s upcoming sci-fi feature, StarDream. This is the second collaboration from director Björn Runge and producer Claudia Bluemhuber (Silver Reel), after their critically acclaimed drama The Wife. Commenting on the choice of Kirby, Runge said: “To play the leading role in this intergalactic drama needs ... Read more

Operation Mincemeat To Take The Global World
From The Shadows FilmNation & Cross City Films
On Joint Sales For The WW2 Project At Cannes
FilmNation Entertainment and See-Saw’s in-house sales arm Cross City Films at Cannes launch sales on Operation Mincemeat to be directed by critically acclaimed director John Madden and star Colin Firth in Operation Mincemeat, a stranger than fiction true story set across WWII Europe. Michelle Ashford has written ... Read more