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Michel Gondry To Head Cannes Short Film Jury

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday February 21, 2011 @ 7:56am PSTTags: 64th Cannes Film Festival, 64th Festival de Cannes, Cannes, Michel Gondry, Movies

Film director Michel Gondry is to head up the short film and Cinéfondation jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes, following in the footsteps of Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Martin Scorsese and John Boorman.

With his seven feature films, several shorts and seventy-odd music videos, Michel Gondry, who is also a musician, has created an incredibly original body of work coloured with dreamscape qualities and Utopian ideals. A master craftsman, a modern day Méliès, he is a cinemagician who constantly reinvents the technical effects and enchantments of the medium of film.

In 2001, his first feature, Human Nature was selected for the Festival de Cannes. He was back in 2008 with the Tokyo! triptych at Un Certain Regard, and presented out of competition the documentary The Thorn in the Heart in 2009.

The Academy Award winning screenplay in 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was followed in 2006 by The Science of Sleep and Be Kind, Rewind in 2008. The Green Hornet, on general release in France since January 2011, has been his biggest box office hit thus far.

At the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Michel Gondry has just been opening his Amateur Film Factory (Usine de films amateurs) as part of the Nouveau Festival. It is part creative studio think-tank and part DIY laboratory – a space offering anyone the chance to make a short film in three hours.

This gifted illusionist will, alongside his fellow jury members, award the three Cinéfondation prizes on Friday 20th May, and then the Palme d’Or for the best short film at the Closing Ceremony on May 22nd 2011.

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Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight In Paris’ To Open Cannes Fest

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 6:56am PSTTags: 64th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Marion Cotillard, Midnight In Paris, Movies, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Robert De Niro, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

Midnight in Paris, the new film by Woody Allen will open the Festival de Cannes on May 11th in the Lumière theatre, in the presence of the Jury presided by Robert De Niro.

The romcom, which was shot last year in the French capital, brings together a broad international

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Robert De Niro To Lead Cannes Jury

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 7:40am PSTTags: 64th Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro Cannes, Tribeca Film Festival

The actor, director and producer will be President of the Jury of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, due to take place from May 11-22, 2011. De Niro said: “The Cannes Film Festival is a rare opportunity for me as it is one of the oldest and one of the best in the world.” Inviting De Niro to become jury president, Cannes’ organizers are also paying tribute to his work as co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and has a sister festival in Doha. De Niro co-founded Manhattan’s Tribeca Film Center in 1989. Read More »

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