Actress Emmanuelle Béart will be back in Cannes for the 1000th time this year, this time to co-chair the Camera d'Or side bar. But who's this other dude she's sharing the chair with? https://cannes-or-bust.com/2024/04/emmanuel-beart-and-baloji-to-co-preside-camera-dor/
George Lucas will get an honorary Palme d'Or this year at Cannes. The first time he was there was for THX-1138 in the seventies. I just realised that his sound system was later called THX.
One for the music biz people out there. MIDEM+ 24 has announced its first speakers for the re-launched event in January 2024. Having a quick look, I can see quite a few ppl from meta ventures, musictech and venture capitalists.
They've also promised live concerts in Cannes and at the Palais.
Anyone out there that has good memories of MIDEM back in the day? I do!
Here's a curiosity. Producer Ben Schwag dug out old tapes from 40 years and discovered tracks with vocals by Johnny Guitar Watson and Sly Stone. This FB post was for his French-speaking followers, but you can hear Watson and Stone's versions of the same track at about 6 minutes. Follow him for more about this project
Rewind: I just came across this old article about the time a cub photographer slept in his car trying to meet Picasso in Cannes. It was Frederick Baldwin. He lost the photos and notes he had taken, but found them 50 years later and compiled a mini reportage you can download.
This is me. I've been checking the database of people attending Cannes. So I did a quick vid about how to find new partners for business from the database.