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Orange Short Film award in Cannes

Orange has succesfully launched its first contest providing the jury with a selection of 15 short films. The Jury headed by french director Régis Wargnier (Indochine...) selected 5 of them for their awards.
Orange was a sponsor of The Short Film Digital Avenue, the booth was allowing its visitors to watch the winners on a mobile
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J Day by Jie: Action: Cut!!

Well Jie was busy with Star Wars Press Junket at that moment ...he says he is sorry he is not on the picture with his beauty team! Work, work!
Jie Matar, President and Creative Director of Canada’s leading beauty destination, has signed an exclusive agreement with Film Festivals Entertainment Group to provide his signature upscale hair, beauty and makeup services to incoming celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival.
Located at the Majestic Hotel’s 58 Beach Beauty Lounge, Jie and his team have offered the same full-service pampering that has made his Toronto salon the toast of the rich, famous and avant garde in the city and around the world.

Every day, Jie worked his magic on personalities from the film industry: actors from Star Wars and Sin City teams on their press junket, directors, producers, jury members, journalists and executives attending the festival.

Jie launched the J Day by Jie with a special Short Cut For Short Filmmakers in partnership with Cannesmarket, and the Canadian cut in partnership with the Canadian village.
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And the winners are....

The 58th Cannes Film Festival concluded after ten days of glorious cinema on May 21, and the distinguished jury of the official selection awarded prizes to directors, actors and screenwriters. The closing ceremony was officiated by Cécile de France who called on jury president Emir Kusturica to reveal the recipients of the awards.
Palme d'Or L'Enfant (The Child, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Grand Prize of the Jury Broken Flowers ( Jim Jarmusch)
Jury Prize Shanghai Dreams (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Best Director Michael Haneke, Caché (Hidden)
Best Actress Hanna Laslo, Free Zone
Best Actor Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Best Screenplay Guillermo Arriaga, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Caméra d'Or (tie) The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara) and Me and You and Everyone We Know ( Miranda July)
Short Film Podorozhni (Wayfarers, Igor Strembitskyy)

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Chromophobia Closes

The closing film screened out of competition is the much anticipated Chromophobia by Martha Fiennes, a treatise on a dysfunctional family starring Damien Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas and Penélope Cruz. The Fiennes family seems to have exceptional genetic wiring.

Critics' Faves Remain

The critics' favorites remain ( Manderlay, Broken Blossoms, A History of Violence, Hidden) and some believe that Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche are two thesbians sure to garnish acting awards for Hidden. The list also includes L'Enfant directed by Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Palme d'Or Rosetta - a powerful tale about child abandonment and fathers--clearly a recurrent theme of this year's official selection. "Child abandonment is an ancient practice", says Luc Dardenne.

3X Hou Hsiao Hsien

Will director obsession for numbers albeit trilogies and plot conventions ever cease? Three different years 1911, 1966, 2005 yield three different stories. This is the basic premise of cinematic heavy hitter Hou Hsiao Hsien's Three Times about a love that spans three lifetimes. Yet Hou's films are never what they seem, where the magic of temporal duration allows multiple interpretation.

Tommy Lee Jones Directs

Actor turned director, Tommy Lee Jone's debut is The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by , a film about the murder of a Mexican "wetback". Jones plays the foreman of a Texan ranch determined to find out whodunnit to his friend Melquiades.

amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Event

With thousands of photographers lining the sidewalk, the Moulin de Mougins wasw turned into a celebrity circus for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event. I was impressed by all the stars that were there and especially by their generousity in giving to such a worthy cause. Paying $5,000 per ticket, the guest list included Kenneth Cole, the Olsen twins, Penelope Cruz, Selma Hayek, Toni Morrison, and Chris Tucker among others. Sharon Stone and Harvey Weinstein were the hostess and host of the ceremony. Liza Minnelli sang "New York, New York" in one of her two performances. Half-way through the night, the $3 million goal had been reached and by the end of the silent and live auctions, that goal had been surpassed. I was extremely delighted to be in the company of such caring people and I am now fully dedicated to the amfAR cause. Their next event will be held in June in New York City. More Information can be found at www.amfar.org.

Eicar Film School goes to Cannes

The International Film School of Paris - EICAR offered a unique experience of Cannes to 30 of its most motivated students who became reporters for a week during the leading festival in the World.
The Accreditation Process began in early march and offered 30 happy students the unique chance to mingle, discover the "behind the scenes" elements of Cannes, interview filmmakers, actors, producers, festival directors.
They were guided by their teachers and staff from Paris and Cannes.
Some of them were accepted as trainees and asistants. Two editors Guilhem and Marion worked hard inside the palais editing material shot by their fellow students including interviews with Johnny To, Patrick Bouchitey, serge losique (Montreal Festival founder), a few hot actresses from LA , Jie celebrities hair desser and many more. They also contribute to this blog
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Pelé for ever first awarded film from Cannes

The Prize "Città di Roma - Arcobaleno Latino, created by Gillo Pontecorvo, is an award that lies under different flags - 37 countries from all over the word- to emphasize a cinema that encourages the cultural dimension the audience's intelligence, the quality entertainment the authors' personality the different styles and languages of the Latin culture.

The Prize "Città di Roma- Arcobaleno Latino", which is at its 7th edition, was awarded during the 58. Festival of Cannes to the film:  "PELE' FOREVER"
by Anibal Massaini Neto

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