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  • Cannes Selections to be aired from 17 to 28 May on Star Movies Select HD

    MUMBAI: The stage is set for the 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) for a grand celebration of the festival’s illustrious history. In keeping with this theme, Star Movies Select HD – India’s premium English movie channel has carefully selected some of the best stories from the annals of the Cannes festival. The Cannes Selection on Star Movies Select HD starts 17 – 28 May, every evening at 6:30 PM.

    Staying true to its promise of delivering the best stories to Indian audiences, Star Movies Select HD, as part of the movie festival, will showcase 12 handpicked movies that have featured as part of the official selection at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival over the years.

    Hard hitting and intense dramas, The Cannes Selection will showcase critically acclaimed, award-winning and successful Hollywood movies such as – BAFTA winning The China Syndrome, The Imposters, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Nicole Kidman – Ewan McGregor starrer, Oscar winning Moulin Rouge, Penelope Cruz starrer, Cannes award winning Volver, Antonio Banderas – Salma Hayek – Quentin Tarantino starrer Desperado, BAFTA and Cannes’ Palme d’Or award winning Kagemusha, Cannes award winning Blue Ruin, Nicholas Cage starrer Raising Arizona, Emily Blunt starrer and Academy award nominated Sicario, Kirsten Dunst – Alexander Skarsgård – Kiefer Sutherland starring Melancholia and Colin Farrell – Rachel Weisz starrer and Oscar nominated movie The Lobster.

    The movies are scheduled to run every evening from 17 – 28 May, which is the entire duration of the Cannes festival and will be previewing new films across genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

    A throwback to some of the most applauded dramas that were official selections at the esteemed Cannes Film Festival, The Cannes Selection movie festival is sure to provide viewers and movie lovers, an exposure to acclaimed and recognized global films, like never before!

  • Cannes jury to have nine members headed by Pedro Almodovar

    Cannes jury to have nine members headed by Pedro Almodovar

    NEW DELHI: The renowned American actor and producer Will Smith and famous French composer Gabriel Yared are among the members of the jury for the 70th Festival de Cannes under the presidency of Spanish director, screenwriter and producer Pedro Almodóvar. The Jury will be made up of eight key figures from the seventh art – cinema – coming from all over the world.

    Four women and four men will thus help Pedro Almodóvar select from among the films in competition. The winners will be announced on 28 May 2017 at the Closing Ceremony, following which the top award Palme d’or will be awarded in the presence of the winning team.

    The other jury members are: German Director, Screenwriter and Producer Maren Ade; American actress and producer Jessica Chastain; Chinese actress and producer Fan Bingbing; French singer, actress, screenwriter and director Agnès Jaoui; South Korean Director, Screenwriter and Producer Park Chan-wook; and Italian Director and Screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino.

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  • Sandrine Kiberlain to preside over Camera d’or jury at Cannes

    Sandrine Kiberlain to preside over Camera d’or jury at Cannes

    NEW DELHI: Renowned French actress Sandrine Kiberlain is to preside over the jury for this year’s Caméra d’or – award for the at the 70th Cannes International Film Festival this year. Canera d’or is a prize to a director’s first work from the Official Selection, the Directors’ Fortnight or the Semaine de la Critique.

    The Festival is being held from 17 to 27 May 2017 in the seaside resort in France.

    In a career spanning 25 years and boasting around 40 films, the actress has made a simple and subtle but undeniable impression on the French filmmaking scene.

    She first shot to prominence in The Patriots by Éric Rochant (winner of the Romy-Schneider prize), followed by En avoir (ou pas) by Laetitia Masson (César for Most Promising Actress).

    Since then, she has continued to make an impact far and wide, taking risks in her stride and turning her hand with ease to dramas (Mademoiselle Chambon), quirky comedies (9 Month Stretch, César for Best Actress), arthouse films (False Servant) and mass-market films (Little Nicolas).

    Following on from Wim Wenders, Tim Roth, Abbas Kiarostami and more recently Agnès Varda and Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain and her jury members will award the Caméra d’or prize at the Closing Ceremony of the Festival de Cannes on Sunday 28 May.

    Since 1978 the award has gone to Stranger than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch (1984), Suzaku by Naomi Kawase (1997), The White Balloon by Jafar Panahi (1995), Hunger by Steve McQueen (2008) and Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012). Last year, Houda Benyamina won the Caméra d’or for her film Divines screened in the Directors’ Fortnight.

  • FremantleMedia signs Europe deals for factual reality series ‘The Lie Detective’

    CANNES: FremantleMedia has secured five new commissions for the highly entertaining factual reality series The Lie Detective. Devised by True North, the format, which sees a human lie detector put couples in the hot seat to test their honesty, has been picked up by SBS (Belgium), Antenna (Greece), STV Pirma! (Latvia), RTL 5 (Netherlands) and TV2 (Norway). FremantleMedia holds the global rights (excluding the US) for the format.

    FremantleMedia Head of Global Entertainment Production Chris O’Dell said, “We are delighted at the fantastic reception The Lie Detective has received from the international broadcasters. We’re excited to work with them to deliver local versions of the entertainingly honest and distinctly frank format.”

    True North executive producer Fiona O’Sullivan said, “It’s great to see The Lie Detective take off in so many territories so quickly. It’s a completely captivating concept with so many universal themes, it will be amazing to see all the hard work everyone has put into its creation and production manifest in these international series.”

    The highly-charged series, which launched on Channel 4 (UK) in Autumn 2016, sees current couples, wannabe couples, and ex-couples engage in heart-to-heart and compellingly candid conversations with their loved ones to find out whether they’ve always told it like it is, or whether their relationship has been based on lies. Dan Ribacoff will return as the Lie Detective in the Netherlands version of the show where he will use his incredible ability to read body language with genuine polygraph tests to give the couples answers to their long running problems.

    Meanwhile, the local versions will be presented by new experts, who will lend their own unique and extensive knowledge to the format.

  • MIPDrama: 12 international screenings to be showcased

    MUMBAI: MIPTV has announced this year’s official selection for the second edition of MIPDrama Screenings, which offer the international drama community, including 450 top buyers, an exclusive look at some of the most exciting upcoming series on the global marketplace.

    The 2017 MIPDrama Screenings will be held on 2 April (Sunday) in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, on the eve of the MIPTV global entertainment content market, which runs 3-6 April.

    Designed to meet the growing international demand for high-end drama series from Europe and other major drama-producing territories, MIPDrama Screenings is a premium showcase curated by the MIP Drama Buyers Advisory Board. The 2017 MIPDrama Screenings now include two categories: ‘Works in Progress’ and ‘Full Episodes.’

    The selected new drama series will be presented at MIPTV in front of an invited audience of leading acquisition executives and media from around the world. This year, the event is also open to producers, distributors, agents and other executives.

    A total of six awards will be presented at the Closing Ceremony. Two awards (one in each category) will be selected by a stellar international Jury of writers, directors and executive producers. The members of the prestigious Grand Jury are: Frank Spotnitz, Executive Producer and Writer, (“The X-Files,” “The Man in the High Castle”), Lars Blomgren, Chairman, Scripted Exchange, Endemol Shine Group, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Filmlance International, and Executive Producer (“The Bridge,” “Beck,” “Spring Tide”), Virginie Brac, Screen Writer (“Cannabis,” “Paris,” “Engrenages”), Ran Tellem , Head of International Content Development for Mediapro and former Head of Content for Keshet, Executive Producer (“Homeland”) and Jalil Lespert, Director and Actor, (“Iris,” “Yves Saint Laurent,” “Versailles”).

    Two awards (one in each category) will be chosen by the TV Critics Jury, whose members are: Maureen Ryan, Chief Television Critic, Variety (USA); Benji Wilson, TV Critic for the Telegraph (UK); and Constance Jamet, Critic for Le Figaro (France). Acquisition executives in attendance can also vote for their favourite projects in each category.

    “The MIPDrama Screenings showcase is back with an impressive line-up of drama series that once again illustrates the diversity and quality of global output in the field. In the lead up to MIPTV, this will give buyers exclusive insight into the best new series being launched at the market,” said Laurine Garaude, Director of the Television Division at Reed MIDEM, which organises MIPTV.

    The 12 series that make up the MIPDrama Screenings Official Selection are:

    WORKS IN PROGRESS:

    Babylon Berlin (Germany)
    16×60’ Crime
    Production: X Filme Creative Pool, ARD Degeto, Sky and Beta Film
    Distribution: Beta Film
    Broadcasters: Sky Atlantic, ARD

    Bad Banks (Germany)
    6×52’ Thriller
    Production: Letterbox Filmproduktion, Iris Productions
    Distribution: Federation Entertainment
    Broadcasters: ARTE France, ZDF Germany

    Bad Blood (Canada)
    6×60’ Drama
    Production: New Metric Media & Sphère Média Plus
    Distribution: Sky Vision
    Broadcaster: FX/City

    Better Than Us (Russian Federation)
    16×52’ Sci-Fi Drama
    Production: Yellow, Black and White; Sputnik Vostok Production
    Distribution: Yellow, Black and White
    Broadcaster: Channel One Russia

    Ride Upon the Storm (Denmark)
    2 seasons with 10 x 60′ episodes each
    Production: DR Drama in co-production with ARTE France and SAM Le Français
    Distribution: STUDIOCANAL
    Broadcaster: DR1/ARTE

    FULL EPISODES:

    Clique (UK)
    6×60’ Drama
    Production: A BBC, GHP and Balloon Entertainment Co-Production
    Distribution: all3media International
    Broadcasters: BBC Scotland/BBC Three

    Fearless (UK)
    6×60’ Crime
    Production: Mammoth Screen
    Distribution: ITV Studios Global Entertainment
    Broadcaster: ITV

    Gap Year (UK)
    8×60’ Drama
    Production: Eleven Film
    Distribution: Entertainment One
    Broadcaster: Channel 4

    Jailers (Brazil)
    12×30’ Prison Drama
    Production: Globo
    Distribution: Globo
    Broadcaster: Globo

    Missions (France)
    10×26’ Sci-Fi
    Production: Empreinte Digitale
    Distribution: AB International Distribution
    Broadcaster: OCS

    The Territory (Russian Federation)
    8×52’ Crime/Mystery
    Production: Sreda Production, Best Episodes Media
    Distribution: Sreda Production
    Broadcaster: Channel One Russia

    Veni Vidi Vici (Sweden)
    10×35’ Thriller
    Production: HandsUp Stockholm
    Distribution: Viaplay Nordic
    Broadcaster: Viaplay Nordic

  • MIPCOM: Beta Film delivers interactive TV-event ‘The Verdict’ throughout Europe

    MIPCOM: Beta Film delivers interactive TV-event ‘The Verdict’ throughout Europe

    CANNES: The interactive TV-event The Verdict continues its roll-out throughout Europe and will be simultaneously broadcast in six countries with additional territories to follow. The MOOVIE production by Oliver Berben (“Shades of Guilt”, “Hotel Adlon – A Family Saga”) will be screened in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and live in Cannes/France for the MIPCOM 2016 audience on primetime this Monday night. In addition to the new agreements with Czech Republic and Slovakia Beta Film also secured a contract with Denmark’s DR, which will broadcast the program later this year. Negotiations with several European key territories are underway.

    The legal thriller The Verdict (90’), directed by Lars Kraume (“The People vs. Fritz Bauer”), is the latest in a row of joint projects of Oliver Berben and Beta Film and circles around the legal question whether it might be justified to shoot down a civilian plane converted into a deadly suicide missile. The movie, which has already stirred controversial discussions, will be shown on 100 screens in cinema prior to its broadcast.

    TV professionals, executives and journalists attending MIPCOM will judge after the screening as viewers will do across Europe. The event, hosted by Beta Film, will take place on Monday, October 17th, 8.15 pm, at C 21 Grand Beach, La Croisette, Cannes.

    The case: Terrorists hijack a civil airplane and force the pilot to set course for a sold-out football stadium. At the last minute and against the explicit orders of his wing commander, a German air force pilot shoots down the airplane before it crashes into the stadium. Having saved the lives of tens of thousands but killing all passengers on board, he now faces charges for his action in court.

    The concept: The audience witnesses the trial and have to judge for themselves by voting live online, via telephone or text message: guilty or innocent? The vote will be moderated in each country by local anchormen. Depending on the outcome, either the conviction or the acquittal of the pilot will be broadcasted, followed by high ranking political talk shows, turning a linear fictional program into an interactive, captivating, and unpredictable TV happening.

    The show is based on the stage play “Terror” by bestseller author Ferdinand von Schirach (“Shades of Guilt”) and stars Florian David Fitz (“Vincent Wants to Sea”), Burghart Klaussner (“The White Ribbon”), Martina Gedeck (“Lives of Others”), and Lars Eidinger (“Clouds of Sils Maria”). The Verdict is an Oliver Berben production by MOOVIE in co-production with ARD Degeto and rbb. World sales are handled by Beta Film.

  • MIPCOM: Beta Film delivers interactive TV-event ‘The Verdict’ throughout Europe

    MIPCOM: Beta Film delivers interactive TV-event ‘The Verdict’ throughout Europe

    CANNES: The interactive TV-event The Verdict continues its roll-out throughout Europe and will be simultaneously broadcast in six countries with additional territories to follow. The MOOVIE production by Oliver Berben (“Shades of Guilt”, “Hotel Adlon – A Family Saga”) will be screened in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and live in Cannes/France for the MIPCOM 2016 audience on primetime this Monday night. In addition to the new agreements with Czech Republic and Slovakia Beta Film also secured a contract with Denmark’s DR, which will broadcast the program later this year. Negotiations with several European key territories are underway.

    The legal thriller The Verdict (90’), directed by Lars Kraume (“The People vs. Fritz Bauer”), is the latest in a row of joint projects of Oliver Berben and Beta Film and circles around the legal question whether it might be justified to shoot down a civilian plane converted into a deadly suicide missile. The movie, which has already stirred controversial discussions, will be shown on 100 screens in cinema prior to its broadcast.

    TV professionals, executives and journalists attending MIPCOM will judge after the screening as viewers will do across Europe. The event, hosted by Beta Film, will take place on Monday, October 17th, 8.15 pm, at C 21 Grand Beach, La Croisette, Cannes.

    The case: Terrorists hijack a civil airplane and force the pilot to set course for a sold-out football stadium. At the last minute and against the explicit orders of his wing commander, a German air force pilot shoots down the airplane before it crashes into the stadium. Having saved the lives of tens of thousands but killing all passengers on board, he now faces charges for his action in court.

    The concept: The audience witnesses the trial and have to judge for themselves by voting live online, via telephone or text message: guilty or innocent? The vote will be moderated in each country by local anchormen. Depending on the outcome, either the conviction or the acquittal of the pilot will be broadcasted, followed by high ranking political talk shows, turning a linear fictional program into an interactive, captivating, and unpredictable TV happening.

    The show is based on the stage play “Terror” by bestseller author Ferdinand von Schirach (“Shades of Guilt”) and stars Florian David Fitz (“Vincent Wants to Sea”), Burghart Klaussner (“The White Ribbon”), Martina Gedeck (“Lives of Others”), and Lars Eidinger (“Clouds of Sils Maria”). The Verdict is an Oliver Berben production by MOOVIE in co-production with ARD Degeto and rbb. World sales are handled by Beta Film.

  • MEC and Holition to reveal the creative DNA of Cannes Lions 2016

    MEC and Holition to reveal the creative DNA of Cannes Lions 2016

    MUMBAI: MEC unveiled its installation at Cannes Lions Innovation — the visual art piece, which unlocks the data behind game-changing creativity, has been created and built in partnership with digital creative studio Holition.

    The installation, The DNA of Creativity, is presented in a mirror lined chamber that projects an LED video wall display into a seemingly endless space. This dazzling digital artwork uses an entirely bespoke hardware and software solution to generate a user’s individual creative profile in real-time, by drawing on the rich and varied archive of Cannes winners. The DNA of Creativity is thus both a tribute to the creative history of Cannes Lions and a glimpse into each individual’s creative future.

    The DNA of Creativity represents MEC’s capability to take vast amounts of data, uncover real-time insights and turn them into intuitive, forward thinking visualizations.

    MEC Global chief Analytics and Insight officer Stephan Bruneau said, “In today’s always on environment, data is everywhere. But without careful curation and interpretation it is useless. At MEC we aim to make data accessible and meaningful by taking it out of the computer and turning it into more intuitive and interactive visual representations. We have partnered with Holition to create something truly special for Cannes, using technology and data to determine and visualise creativity.”

    Holition CEO Jonathan Chippindale said,”With MEC we were inspired by the vast Cannes archive and the structure of the DNA double helix. This naturally led us to see how we could craft an algorithm to simplify the data into an immersive visualisation which could define a person’s creative DNA.”

  • MEC and Holition to reveal the creative DNA of Cannes Lions 2016

    MEC and Holition to reveal the creative DNA of Cannes Lions 2016

    MUMBAI: MEC unveiled its installation at Cannes Lions Innovation — the visual art piece, which unlocks the data behind game-changing creativity, has been created and built in partnership with digital creative studio Holition.

    The installation, The DNA of Creativity, is presented in a mirror lined chamber that projects an LED video wall display into a seemingly endless space. This dazzling digital artwork uses an entirely bespoke hardware and software solution to generate a user’s individual creative profile in real-time, by drawing on the rich and varied archive of Cannes winners. The DNA of Creativity is thus both a tribute to the creative history of Cannes Lions and a glimpse into each individual’s creative future.

    The DNA of Creativity represents MEC’s capability to take vast amounts of data, uncover real-time insights and turn them into intuitive, forward thinking visualizations.

    MEC Global chief Analytics and Insight officer Stephan Bruneau said, “In today’s always on environment, data is everywhere. But without careful curation and interpretation it is useless. At MEC we aim to make data accessible and meaningful by taking it out of the computer and turning it into more intuitive and interactive visual representations. We have partnered with Holition to create something truly special for Cannes, using technology and data to determine and visualise creativity.”

    Holition CEO Jonathan Chippindale said,”With MEC we were inspired by the vast Cannes archive and the structure of the DNA double helix. This naturally led us to see how we could craft an algorithm to simplify the data into an immersive visualisation which could define a person’s creative DNA.”

  • Biraja Swain appointed Chief Growth and Innovation Officer of Neo@Ogilvy India

    Biraja Swain appointed Chief Growth and Innovation Officer of Neo@Ogilvy India

    MUMBAI:Neo@Ogilvy India  has  appointed Biraja Swain as chief growth and innovation officer. Other than leading the Neo Center of Excellence, Biraja will also drive growth and build capability in the mobile space and lead innovation for Ogilvy’s current businesses.

    Prior to this role, Biraja was the Digital and Emerging Media lead for OMD’s operations across India & South Asia with over fifteen years of digital media expertise.

    Neo@Ogilvy, India president and country head Rajesh Bhatia welcomed Swain with, “I am thrilled to have him as part of our network and I am certain that he will play a leading role in driving business, innovation and growth, not just for Neo, but Ogilvy India as a whole.”

    Biraja is well known for his penchant for innovation especially in the field of mobile and among the accolades that he has received include acclaimed awards like Cannes and FOMA. As a founding member of OMG and PhD, he created one of South Asia’s largest digital agency networks from scratch scaling to a team strength of over 250 people with the largest digital advertiser in India (Unilever) on board during his tenure. Under Biraja’s leadership Unilever was awarded “Digital Marketer of the year” and “Mobile Marketer of the Year”, for 3 years running across India and APAC respectively.

    In his previous role, Biraja was National Director at MEC Interaction (Mediaedge: CIA) where he led the “Digital Strategy” for clients such as Citi, Beiersdorf, Singapore Airlines & Sony Ericsson. His experience includes work at some of the best technology and media setups in India, including Baazee/Ebay India and Smile Technologies/Quasar. He also has extensive experience of working in international markets of Middle East and Africa during his previous stints based out of Dubai.