By This past May, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival. When I returned, the questions were mostly of the stars that I saw along the Croisette. While I had a few brushes with the likes of Pedro Almodovar and Ang Lee most of the excitement to be had for me was on the floor of the Marché du Film the largest film market in the world. It's here that films compete for attention of buyers, distributors and festival folk like myself for the chance at reaching an audience.
I was there as a representative of Emerson to promote our new MFA program and support the students and alums attending as both participants and interns with programs like Creative Minds in Cannes and the American Pavilion. I was also there to represent my film festival, Boston Underground as well as Global Voices, The UN Association of Greater Boston film festival for which I am serving as program director this year. The trip was a success on all fronts meeting several alums, working closely with Creative Minds where 6 Emerson students were interning and developing relationships with other film festival folk like Colin Geddes (Toronto International Film Festival), Tim League (Fantastic Fest), and Andersen Le (Hawaii International Film Festival).
There is so much to tell you all...more to some soon in the next blog...
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