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Cannes Film Festival Archives - ShowBizCafe.com

Cannes Film Festival Archives - ShowBizCafe.com

Mariana Dussan

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2013/04/23 at 12:00am

Cannes Film Festival showcases Latino Talent

04.23.2013 | By |

Cannes Film Festival showcases Latino Talent

It’s official, Latinos will get their own little nook at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 

According to Variety, on May 21 the French festival will be highlighting six young Latin American directors in a showcase titled Bal Goes to Cannes: Bafici Work in Progress which focuses on yet-to-be-completed movies.

The event was organized by Cannes’ Film Market and the Buenos Aires Lab, organization that supports the development and production of Latin American cinema and is in charge of the Buenos Aires Film Festival of Independent Cinema known as Bafici.   Read More

Mack Chico

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2009/05/20 at 12:00am

Pedro Almodóvar’s new film about Spanish Civil War

05.20.2009 | By |

Pedro Almodóvar's new film about Spanish Civil War

Pedro Almodóvar has announced, during the Cannes Film Festival, that he is working on a new film on the Spanish Civil War.

‘It’s time to look back and heal the wounds,’ he said, claiming it is a story which needs to be told.

He revealed that the story will be based on the life of Marcos Ana, a supervisor in one of Franco’s jails.

Almodóvar’s latest offering, ‘Broken Hugs’ has been well received on the Riviera and is part of the competition in Cannes this year. Its first showing to the international press ended in applause, although not all the audience were convinced by the film. But despite that Pedro Almodóvar is now a popular part of the festival, having previously taken part as a jury member.

However things were not always easy in Cannes for the Spanish director who reminded the press that his big early hit in Spain, ‘Women on the edge of a nervous breakdown’, was rejected by the Festival at the time.

Penelope Cruz appeared with Pedro Almodóvar at the photo call for ‘Los Abrazos Rotos’. Earlier she had failed to show at the call for her other new film ‘Nine’, with press reports saying she was suffering a bout of food poisoning although that claim has now been questioned by the French paper ‘Le Parisien’.

Mack Chico

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2009/04/23 at 12:00am

Almodovar and Tarantino to compete at Cannes

04.23.2009 | By |

Almodovar and Tarantino to compete at Cannes

Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino will be among the directors contending for the Palme d’Or award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces,” with Penelope Cruz will be in competition for the top prize. So will Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” starring Brad Pitt, the organizers said at a news conference in Paris.

The festival will take place from May 13 to 24 in the coastal resort in the south of France.

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