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  • India, special guest country in 2013

    India, special guest country in 2013

    The Festival de Cannes has chosen Goa to announce it is to welcome a large delegation from the Indian film industry to Cannes to celebrate the one hundred years since the birth of cinema in India.

    The 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and Film Bazaar 2012, taking place in Goa until November 30th 2012 with the support of the Indian Ministry of Culture, present the ideal moment to announce that India, in 2013, is to be the third 'guest country' at Cannes, following Egypt in 2011 and Brazil this year.

    The Festival de Cannes is delighted to celebrate one of the most important countries in the world of cinema, a country with a prestigious history and tradition, one whose current day and creative impulses are a perennial example of vitality.

    Exact details of the celebrations will be announced at a later date.

    The Festival de Cannes will be taking place from May 15th to 26th, 2013.

  • Kim Novak, Guest of Honour at the 66th Festival de Cannes

    Kim Novak, Guest of Honour at the 66th Festival de Cannes

    To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.

    Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics.

    She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013.

    Novak first attended the Festival in 1959 for the presentation of Middle of the Night by Delbert Mann (Palme d’or 1955 for Marty).

    Her most memorable roles included the prostitute with a big heart in Kiss Me, Stupid by Billy Wilder, the witch in Richard Quine’s Bell Book and Candle and the adulteress in another Quine film, Strangers When We Meet. But Kim Novak’s greatest performance was surely as the disturbing heroine of Vertigo, 1958 – Hitchock’s finest film, which he described as “a love story with a strange atmosphere.”

    Of her role, Kim Novak said, “What was interesting was that the scene reflected what I was going through at the time: it was the story of a woman who was forced to be someone she wasn’t.” Unwilling to accept the iron rule of the studios, she left Hollywood prematurely in order to devote herself to painting.

  • Audrey Tautou to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 66th Festival de Cannes

    Audrey Tautou to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 66th Festival de Cannes

    The French actress, Audrey Tautou will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 66th Festival de Cannes. Next month, on the 15th and 26th May, she will welcome the President, Steven Spielberg, and his Jury onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumi?re.

    Audrey Tautou, who stars alongside Romain Duris in Michel Gondry’s Moon Indigo due to be released on 24th April, last climbed the red stairs in 2012 for Claude Miller’s posthumous film, Thér?se Desqueyroux.

    It was Tonie Marshall who gave Tautou her breakthrough role in Venus Beauty Institute, earning her the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2000. The actress rose to international fame the following year for her performance as the lead character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film, Amélie (2001).

    Sought after by directors both in France and abroad ever since, she has starred in films directed by Cédric Klapisch (Pot Luck in 2001 and Russian Dolls in 2005), Alain Resnais (Not on the Lips, 2003), Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, 2002), and Amos Kollek (Happy End, 2002). In 2004, she teamed up with Jean-Pierre Jeunet again for A Very Long Engagement and in 2006, she starred in Ron Howard’s US mega-production, Da Vinci Code, which was screened at the opening of the Festival de Cannes.

    Tautou played the role of a scheming adventuress in Pierre Salvatori’s Priceless (2006), before going on to star as Camille in the adaptation of Anna Gavalda’s best-seller, Ensemble, C'est Tout directed by Claude Berri (2007). She then slipped into the role of Coco Chanel in Anne Fontaine’s film, Coco Before Chanel in 2009. In 2011, she appeared in Jalil Lespert’s Headwinds and David Foenkinos’ adaptation of his own novel, Delicacy.

    Audrey Tautou will take over from the actress, Bérénice Béjo, who hosted the Festival’s opening and closing ceremonies in 2012.

     

  • L’Atelier 2013

    L’Atelier 2013

    For L’Atelier’s 9th edition, 15 projects from 14 countries have been selected. Since its creation in 2005, L’Atelier has been stimulating creative filmmaking and encouraging the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. By inviting directors and their producers to meet hundreds of potential partners during the Festival de Cannes, L’Atelier offers its participants access to international co-production, thereby maximizing their chances of completing their projects. So far, out of 126 projects presented over the last eight years, 83 have been completed and 29 are currently in pre-production.

    Rey
    Niles Attalah
    Chile
    Ciao Ciao
    Song Chuan
    China
    Out/In the Streets
    Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk
    Egypt
    Lamb
    Yared Zeleke
    Ethiopia
    Je ne suis pas un salaud
    Emmanuel Finkiel
    France
    Stage Fright
    Yorgos Zois
    Greece
    Chenu
    Manjeet Singh
    India
    Holy Air
    Shady Srour
    Israel
    The House on Fin Street
    Amir Manor
    Israel
    Sworn Virgin
    Laura Bispuri
    Italia
    Me, Myself and Murdoch
    Yahya Alabdallah
    Jordan / Palestine
    Days of Cannibalism
    Teboho Joscha Edkins
    South Africa
    Memories of the Wind
    Özcan Alper
    Turkey
    Road Kill
    Yuichi Hibi
    U.S.A.
    The Heirs
    Jorge Hernández Aldana
    Mexico

    From May 17 to 23, L’Atelier will arrange meetings with the directors for film industry professionals interested in investing in their projects.

    The Livre des Projets and the meeting request forms will be available online at the beginning of April on www.cinefondation.com.

    The professionals willing to meet the directors and their producers will then be able to request a meeting and consult online a selection of our directors’ previous works.

    CONTACT : Nicolas Rouilleault

    L’ATELIER, Festival de Cannes / 3, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris

  • Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scott Fitzgerald to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes

    Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scott Fitzgerald to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes

    It is on The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, that the curtain will rise at the inauguration of the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, in the Grand Théâtre Lumi?re of the Palais des Festivals, out of Competition in the Official Selection.

    Adapted from the famous novel by American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald and set against the roaring twenties on the East Coast of the United States, the film depicts the romantic and tragic figure of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), as narrated by his friend Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan, whose husband is played by Joel Edgerton. This prestigious occasion will also be graced with the presence of Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, as well as the American pop star, rapper Jay-Z.

    "It is a great honor for all those who have worked on The Great Gatsby to open the Cannes Film Festival. We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film Strictly Ballroom was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside Saint-Raphaël."

    Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, the film was scripted by Baz Luhrmann and his faithful co-screenwriter Craig Pearce, based on Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel.

    The opening film will be screened in 3D – for the second time during the history of the Festival, following Up by Pete Docter, in 2009.
    On the same day the Festival gets underway – Wednesday 15th May – The Great Gatsby will also open in cinemas nationwide. Both in France and internationally, the film will be distributed in 2D and 3D by Warner Bros. Pictures and in certain regions by Village Roadshow Pictures.

    Born in 1962 in Australia, Baz Luhrmann has twice been honoured by the Festival de Cannes for Strictly Ballroom (Un Certain Regard in 1992) and for Moulin Rouge! at the 54th Festival, in 2001, at an opening which is unlikely to be forgotten any time soon.

    Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby) has rarely been seen on the Croisette. He returns to Cannes for the first time since the 2007 presentation of The 11th Hour, a documentary on ecological issues which the actor himself produced.

  • A Head-Turning Poster

    A Head-Turning Poster

    The original photo

    To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of the aptly named A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).

    For the Festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star.

    They were honoured at the Festival de Cannes in 1958 – the year of their marriage – with the selection In Competition of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. The links between their story and that of the Festival continued with a series of films directed by Newman, who cast Woodward in unforgettable roles in The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Competition – 1973) and The Glass Menagerie (Competition – 1987).

    The 2013 Festival Poster

    The photograph from the shoot was isolated, remastered and redesigned by the Bronx agency, who added a kinetic element, toying with the impression of movement and depth in order to enhance the cinematographic effect.

    The poster evokes a luminous and tender image of the modern couple, intertwined in perfect balance at the heart of the dizzying whirlwind that is love. The vision of these two lovers caught in a vertiginous embrace, oblivious of the world around them, invites us to experience cinema with all the passion of an everlasting desire.

    The ? Bronx agency (Paris) was responsible for all the graphics of the 2013 Festival.

    It also created an animated film for the poster, to the soundtrack of a remixed version of the Festival’s musical theme. Arrangements: Olivier Huguenard – Emmanuel Plégat / Sismic Music

    ? Bronx (Paris), tel.: 01 47 70 70 00 www.bronx.fr

  • New Adventure travel series ‘Freedom Riders Asia’, Celebrating man and motorcycle on the move, debuts on ESPN India on 19 may

    New Adventure travel series ‘Freedom Riders Asia’, Celebrating man and motorcycle on the move, debuts on ESPN India on 19 may

    MUMBAI: Well-known motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman rides onto screens in Asia with the debut of Freedom Riders Asia, a six-part adventure travel series celebrating man and motorcycle on the move across six Asian countries. A premiere screening held today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, showcased the first episode of the series that was shot in Malaysia, which will be aired on Sunday 19 May 2013 on ESPN India at 2100 HKT.

    Conceptualised and developed by FOX One Stop Media, the integrated sales arm of FOX International Channels (FIC), News Corporation’s international multi-media business, in close collaboration with global lubricants brand Shell Advance Motorcycle Oil, Freedom Riders Asia sees Charley Boorman, one of the world’s most renowned and recognised bikers, embark on a journey to explore the colourful biking landscapes of Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.

    From picking tea leaves on the hillside plantations of India, to surfing the legendary waves of Bali’s black sand beaches, Charley meets local biking communities and incredible personalities along the way who show him the delights of each city and the way of life from the back of a motorcycle. In each episode, Charley immerses himself in each country’s unique biking culture, quite often with surprising results.

    In the debut Malaysia episode, viewers will get to see Charley learn the important role the motorcycle plays for many individuals in their daily lives along with taking on a challenge with a well-known local biking personality that will see him fighting for his very reputation!

    Kar-Tai Koh, Shell Advance Global Brand Manager, said: “After six months of hard work and a truly collaborative effort, I am extremely proud of the outcome of Freedom Riders Asia. We really wanted the series to be about celebrating and connecting bikers around Asia; and who better to help us achieve this than Charley Boorman? This is part of Shell Advance’s efforts to empower bikers to experience more freedom on the road in their day-to-day lives and enjoy every ride. I would like to thank FOX for this great working opportunity, our featured local guests as well as all relevant parties involved in making this show possible.”

    Simeon Dawes, Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales and Partnerships, Asia Pacific & The Middle East, FOX One Stop Media said, “One of the objectives of this unique programme is to showcase the diversity of Asia through its different motorcycling cultures, and I believe Freedom Riders Asia has done exactly that, while shedding light on how integral the motorcycle is to the daily lives of so many. This truly has been an exciting collaboration with Shell Advance, and I hope that audiences across Asia will enjoy watching this series as much as we had in making it!”

    He continued, “FOX SPORTS is committed to bringing motor sports fans across Asia the most comprehensive line-up of premier action from around the globe and the region with the live coverage of events such as MotoGP and Superbike World Championships. Freedom Riders Asia is another such initiative that provides fans a unique dimension about motor sports from beyond the motorcycle racing scene.”

    Charley Boorman said: “What I loved most about the Freedom Riders Asia experience was the opportunity to meet locals with larger-than-life characters and ride with passionate bikers in a completely different part of the world. This is indeed a bike trip of a lifetime that I will always remember. The first episode is as exciting as the next, and I hope that the audience in Asia will stay close and enjoy the series as they experience Asia with me!”

    The airing schedule* is as follows:

    Episodes
    Date
    ESPN India
    Ep 1    Malaysia    19 May    16:00
    Ep 2    Philippines    25 May    16:00
    Ep 3    Indonesia    2 June    16:00
    Ep 4    India    9 June    16:00
    Ep 5    Vietnam    16 June    16:00
    Ep 6    Thailand    23 June    16:00
    *Note that there will be three repeats for each episode. Refer to http://tv.foxsportsasia.com/ for repeat schedule.

    Keeping in mind fans desire to deep dive into their favorite sports, a special digital initiative in form of the Shell Advance YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/shelladvance) has been set up where fans can catch exclusive content such as very interesting behind the scenes clips as well as catch up on any missed episodes.

    To reach out to a larger audience base across different demographics and genres, Freedom Riders Asia is being promoted extensively across Fox International Channels Asia’s family of channels such as FOX, National Geographic and FX

  • Prestigious “Webby Awards” Honors Grandmother India Design

    Prestigious “Webby Awards” Honors Grandmother India Design

    MUMBAI: Grandmother India Design, Pvt., Ltd (GMI) is pleased to announce the addition of another award for their work with “Magma Fincorp”. The design agency has won the title of “Official Honoree” at the 17th annual Webby Awards in the Financial Services/Banking category for their exceptional work.

    The Webby Awards (www.webbyawards.com), hailed by the New York Times as the Internet's Highest Honour announced this year’s “Webby Winners Gallery & Archive” at an event held May 21st, 2013 in New York City.

    Speaking about the project that won the award, Cyril-Vincent Michaud, Head of New Media says, “our task was to position online, the Magma Fincorp’s brand as ‘the’ benchmark and to promote the company amongst investors and potential employees. The website had to extend the brand’s services to the end consumer, drive in more traffic to the site and create a wider awareness of Magma in the online medium. The task was also to inform and provide detailed up-to-date information for the company’s target audience. The solution that we conceptualized and executed provides not only an excellent first impression to Magma’s audience, it also conveys Magma’s main value proposition, which is to empower internal communication and provide an online marketing tool to establish a dialogue between the company and its audience.”

    The Webby Awards celebrates those developers, designers, coders, writers, marketers, dreamers and boat rockers who make every aspect of the web (no matter how technical) a work of art. Now in their 8th year, they have added new social categories to ensure cutting edge ideas have a place on the table. The awards are meant to honor creative excellence on the internet and recognize the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos, marketing programs and mobile sites/apps from all levels of budget and organizational reach.

    Speaking about this milestone for GMI, Mr. Pradeep Datwani, Director, Business Development, Grandmother India Design Pvt. Ltd. says, “It’s an honour to be recognized for our contribution to the industry and we are truly humbled by this accomplishment. At Grandmother, it has always been our endeavour to be the best in the class and bring the latest trends of design and quality execution. We will continue to do so across all our projects with a clear vision to develop excellent designs that make our customers happy.”

  • CSK & RCB have the most loyal fan base across IPL teams: Ormax Trac20

    CSK & RCB have the most loyal fan base across IPL teams: Ormax Trac20

    Mumbai: A sizeable and loyal fan base is critical to the business plans of any sporting club or franchise. According to the findings of Ormax Trac20, a syndicated research being conducted by Ormax Media during the sixth edition of IPL, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have the most sizeable base of loyal fans in their respective markets, given them an advantage over the other teams in the league.

    While CSK led the loyalty chart even in the pre-phase of the research conducted before the IPL started in March, RCB have shown a significant increase in their loyalty score during this edition of the tournament. Kolkata Knight Riders are a close no. 3, followed by Mumbai Indians at no. 4.

    Commenting on the results, Shailesh Kapoor, CEO – Ormax Media, said: "Team loyalty is important for advertisers, as sponsoring a team that has a higher loyal fan base will lead to a higher marketing ROI. In our understanding, three factors contribute to team loyalty: consistency of performance, star players and team stability over years. CSK have a huge advantage across these three factors."

    The Ormax Trac20 research is being conducted across 11 cities, in three phases, with a total sample size of 9,000. The research is targeted at advertisers considering IPL or cricket in their marketing plans. The research is tracking the performance of the various brands advertising during this year's IPL, both in terms of recall and effectiveness.

  • Madhuri Dixit and Naseeruddin Shah rejoice their journey in Bollywood with 101 Silver Screen Stars at the set of Dedh Ishqiya

    Madhuri Dixit and Naseeruddin Shah rejoice their journey in Bollywood with 101 Silver Screen Stars at the set of Dedh Ishqiya

    Mumbai: The “ek, do, teen girl” – Madhuri Dixit rejoices her journey in the bollywood with 101 Silver Screen Stars along with Naseeruddin Shah one of the veteran of the Indian film industry.

    At the sets of forthcoming flick “Dedh Ishqiya”, the duo relived their journey in the bollywood when they were gifted a pack of 101 Silver Screen Stars – a mini encyclopedia by Shemaroo. 101 Silver Screen Stars treasures the journey of 101 stars from the galaxy of Bollywood. This audio-visual treat on the life journeys of 101 popular Hindi film heroes and heroines is not merely a compilation but a well-researched Collector’s Edition with interesting anecdotes; more than 550 song clips and 101 full-length songs.

    Madhuri Dixit, the actress expresses herself on the occasion, “Presently, the Celebrations of 100 Years of Indian Cinema are in full swing. All of us have very interesting and distinct memories of the Celluloid world. It is such a sweet gesture on the part of Shemaroo Entertainment to have remembered 101 Superstars of all times who have made these 100 years memorable. I too feel privileged to be a part of these 101 stars and have loved the entire segment devoted to me. It was really wonderful re-living the subtle moments of my life like my love for the B&W CHHAYA GEET during my childhood etc. I wish to congratulate Shemaroo on its completion of 50 Golden years and for bringing out such a wonderful gift to celebrate 2 occasions – its own Golden Jubilee & the Centenary of Indian Cinema.” 

    The actor, Naseeruddin Shah shares his thoughts, “A wonderful effort and a different approach of paying tribute to Superstardom. A very interesting mix of actors & actresses. Would like to congratulate Shemaroo for this research-intensive product in their 50th Year. It has carved its own niche and managed to cut through the clutter surrounding the 100 years of cinema.”