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What\u2019s the vibe like? Where do glamorous parties take place? Is it possible to make deals in coffee shops in Cannes, too? Would you bum tickets in expensive evening attire?
\nAna Ilic is the CEO of SFA (Serbian Film Association) since it was founded and a board member of AFCI (and, as of recently, a cluster council member with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce). In the following article, Ana and her team give a special account of the impressions and the atmosphere at the Cannes Film Festival for the readers of SEEbtm magazine.
\nIn addition to the Berlinale, which takes place every February in the German capital, the Cannes Film Festival is most definitely the biggest European and global festival and market that is right behind the Oscars by its glamour.
\nSince 1947, when it was first organised, the festival runs every year in May, with with a few skipped years. During these twelve days, the French Riviera\u2019s crown jewel turns into a universe with many parallel worlds.
\n[quote_box_right]Tickets are very hard to get, and viewers must adhere to a very strict dress code, so during the day the red carpet is under siege of men and women in expensive evening attires, trying to bum tickets like hitchhikers.[/quote_box_right]
\nThe main festival ceremonies, the market, and the press conferences are held at the Palais des Festivals, which was specially erected for the festival in 1982, where once a casino stood. Thanks to the film festival\u2019s and the MIPTV festival\u2019s (launched in 1965) success, the city of Cannes got two theatres that in time became home to many other events and gatherings.
\nAlong the coast around Paleo, you can spot yachts of international millionaires and rows of white tents with pavilions of countries from all over the world.
\nSerbia promotes its cinema within the South-East Europe Pavillion, and the Serbian Film Association strives every year to make new contacts and attract a part of international filmmakers to Serbia. However, perhaps the biggest portion of the business is conducted outside Palais des Festivals.
\nThe number of luxury hotels per one square kilometre is one of the highest in the world, but despite their head-spinning prices they turn into offices of production companies and people from the business are swarming, so it can easily happen that you\u2019re sitting at a cafe drinking coffee as a tourist while Tarantino sits at the table next to you and negotiates his next project.
\nThe festival glamour has been attracting great numbers of tourists of all ages for decades who come to join the parade, take pictures with their favourite stars, and enjoy the Riviera spring.
\nTickets are very hard to get, and viewers must adhere to a very strict dress code, so during the day the red carpet is under siege of men and women in expensive evening attires, trying to bum tickets like hitchhikers.
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The countries that have Palme d\u2019Or candidates compete in organising glamorous parties at the beach or at exclusive hotels, expensive brands and cars are promoted, there are roof-top parties and campaign of any kind imaginable, all part of advertising that costs hundreds of thousands of euros.
\nYou can see what it all looks like from a film veteran\u2019s perspective in a new documentary directed by Alec Baldwin, Seduced and Abandoned.
\n[quote_box_left]The number of luxury hotels per one square kilometre is one of the highest in the world, but despite their head-spinning prices they turn into offices of production companies and people from the business are swarming, so it can easily happen that you\u2019re sitting at a cafe drinking coffee as a tourist while Tarantino sits at the table next to you and negotiates his next project.[/quote_box_left]
\nThe numbers also speak of the importance of the festival:
\n[quote_box_center]The Serbian Film Association is an independent association of companies and service providers in film, advertising, and TV production that was founded in 2009 with the purpose to promote Serbia as a location fit for international film projects. The SFA helps connect foreign clients with local production companies, develop cooperation with the public sector in creating an encouraging environment for film production, and improve the competencies of local filmmakers.[/quote_box_center]
\nMilica Bozanic
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\nThe post Cannes Film Festival First Hand appeared first on SEE Business travel & meetings magazine.
\n", "content_text": "Would you like to read about the Cannes Film Festival from first-hand?\nWhat\u2019s the vibe like? Where do glamorous parties take place? Is it possible to make deals in coffee shops in Cannes, too? Would you bum tickets in expensive evening attire?\nAna Ilic is the CEO of SFA (Serbian Film Association) since it was founded and a board member of AFCI (and, as of recently, a cluster council member with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce). In the following article, Ana and her team give a special account of the impressions and the atmosphere at the Cannes Film Festival for the readers of SEEbtm magazine.\nIn addition to the Berlinale, which takes place every February in the German capital, the Cannes Film Festival is most definitely the biggest European and global festival and market that is right behind the Oscars by its glamour.\nSince 1947, when it was first organised, the festival runs every year in May, with with a few skipped years. During these twelve days, the French Riviera\u2019s crown jewel turns into a universe with many parallel worlds.\n[quote_box_right]Tickets are very hard to get, and viewers must adhere to a very strict dress code, so during the day the red carpet is under siege of men and women in expensive evening attires, trying to bum tickets like hitchhikers.[/quote_box_right]\nThe main festival ceremonies, the market, and the press conferences are held at the Palais des Festivals, which was specially erected for the festival in 1982, where once a casino stood. Thanks to the film festival\u2019s and the MIPTV festival\u2019s (launched in 1965) success, the city of Cannes got two theatres that in time became home to many other events and gatherings.\nAna Ilic, CEO of SFC\nAlong the coast around Paleo, you can spot yachts of international millionaires and rows of white tents with pavilions of countries from all over the world.\nSerbia promotes its cinema within the South-East Europe Pavillion, and the Serbian Film Association strives every year to make new contacts and attract a part of international filmmakers to Serbia. However, perhaps the biggest portion of the business is conducted outside Palais des Festivals.\nThe number of luxury hotels per one square kilometre is one of the highest in the world, but despite their head-spinning prices they turn into offices of production companies and people from the business are swarming, so it can easily happen that you\u2019re sitting at a cafe drinking coffee as a tourist while Tarantino sits at the table next to you and negotiates his next project.\nThe festival glamour has been attracting great numbers of tourists of all ages for decades who come to join the parade, take pictures with their favourite stars, and enjoy the Riviera spring.\nTickets are very hard to get, and viewers must adhere to a very strict dress code, so during the day the red carpet is under siege of men and women in expensive evening attires, trying to bum tickets like hitchhikers.\nMeeting of the EUFCN\nThe countries that have Palme d\u2019Or candidates compete in organising glamorous parties at the beach or at exclusive hotels, expensive brands and cars are promoted, there are roof-top parties and campaign of any kind imaginable, all part of advertising that costs hundreds of thousands of euros.\nYou can see what it all looks like from a film veteran\u2019s perspective in a new documentary directed by Alec Baldwin, Seduced and Abandoned.\n[quote_box_left]The number of luxury hotels per one square kilometre is one of the highest in the world, but despite their head-spinning prices they turn into offices of production companies and people from the business are swarming, so it can easily happen that you\u2019re sitting at a cafe drinking coffee as a tourist while Tarantino sits at the table next to you and negotiates his next project.[/quote_box_left]\nThe numbers also speak of the importance of the festival:\n\nEUR 4 million of state subsidies are granted by the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Centre, and local and provincial bodies.\n\n\nMore than 12 thousands of registered participants and around EUR 4 million of revenues from the registrations.\n\n\nEUR 2.4 million are revenues from the renting of exhibition space.\n\n\nEUR 5 million of sponsorships (the biggest sponsors under five-year contracts are L\u2019Oreal, Renault, and Chopard).\n\n\nEUR 6 million is the cost of the broadcast rights bought by Canal Plus.\n\n\nEUR 2 million is the direct sponsorship of the city of Cannes, plus another two million of public and community services that operate every day (police, waste disposal, fire departments…).\n\n\nEUR 194 million is the income the local economy realises during the 12 days of the festival.\n\n[quote_box_center]The Serbian Film Association is an independent association of companies and service providers in film, advertising, and TV production that was founded in 2009 with the purpose to promote Serbia as a location fit for international film projects. The SFA helps connect foreign clients with local production companies, develop cooperation with the public sector in creating an encouraging environment for film production, and improve the competencies of local filmmakers.[/quote_box_center]\nMilica Bozanic\n \n\u00a0\nThe post Cannes Film Festival First Hand appeared first on SEE Business travel & meetings magazine.", "date_published": "2015-06-17T15:43:32+02:00", "date_modified": "2017-03-21T12:37:23+01:00", "author": { "name": "Mirjana Novitovic", "url": "https://www.seebtm.com/en/author/officebs/", "avatar": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/slika-.jpg" }, "image": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/velika-3.jpg", "tags": [ "cannes", "cannes film festival", "film festival", "Experts opinions" ] }, { "id": "https://www.seebtm.com/en/festival-de-cannes-celebrates-120-years-since-the-beginning-of-the-film-industry/", "url": "https://www.seebtm.com/en/festival-de-cannes-celebrates-120-years-since-the-beginning-of-the-film-industry/", "title": "Festival de Cannes celebrates 120 years since the beginning of the film industry", "content_html": "The festival will be held from\u00a013th to 24th May, and the main selection of the competition will include 19 films,\u00a0and the festival will open film \u201cStanding Tall\u201c, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot.
\nThis year, the festival line-up will include\u00a0two Serbian films, Panama by\u00a0Pavle Vuckovic and Zvizdan, coproduced\u00a0by filmmakers from Croatia, Slovenia,\u00a0and Serbia.\u00a0The host of the opening and award\u00a0ceremonies at the Festival de Cannes,\u00a0like last year, will be French actor\u00a0and singer Lambert Wilson.
\nThe festival receives more than 1,500\u00a0film applications a year, but only a\u00a0few of them get the chance to be presented\u00a0and participate in the prestigious\u00a0awards competitions.
\nThe Festival de Cannes will be held at\u00a0Palais des Festivals. Palais des Festivals\u00a0was built in 1949 specially for\u00a0festival\u00a0purposes where today JW\u00a0Marriott\u00a0Cannes stands, however as\u00a0the festival grew, a new palace was\u00a0erected in the eighties that still held\u00a0today.
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Festival History
\nThe history of the Festival de Cannes\u00a0begins in 1930s, at a time when great\u00a0rivalry was instigated among the\u00a0French against the festival in Venice,\u00a0because the opinion was that Germany\u00a0and Italy were given advantage\u00a0and that only artists from these\u00a0countries were winning awards.
\n\n\nCannes Film Festival is celebrating\u00a0120 years since the\u00a0Lumiere brothers invented\u00a0the cinematography motion\u00a0picture camera, which is\u00a0considered to be the very beginning\u00a0of the film industry.
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In 1938, Minister of National Education\u00a0and Fine Arts Jean Zey started\u00a0the initiative to establish a cultural\u00a0event in France that would compete\u00a0with the festival in Venice.
\nThe French government, after pressures\u00a0coming from different sides,\u00a0agreed to Zey\u2019s idea to establish the\u00a0International Cinema Festival, whose\u00a0opening ceremony was planned\u00a0for 1st September, 1939, in Cannes.\u00a0However, only one day after the festival\u00a0opening ceremony the Second\u00a0World War started. In 1946, the festival\u00a0was revived.
\nIn its first years, the festival was being\u00a0held in September, due to rivalry\u00a0with the Venetian festival that also\u00a0ran that month, but in 1952 the festival\u00a0dates were changed to May, a\u00a0tradition that continues to this day.
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Festival Jury
The festival line-up that is going to be\u00a0shown within the Festival de Cannes\u00a0selections, as well as the selection of\u00a0those that will win awards, is entrusted\u00a0with the festival jury, appointed\u00a0by the Festival de Cannes Board of\u00a0Directors every year. For film industry\u00a0experts who earn a place in the\u00a0jury – and especially for the jury president\u00a0– this represents a particular\u00a0honour and matter of prestige.
\nThe jury is made up of four categories:
\n\u00b7 features in the official selection
\n\u00b7 shorts
\n\u00b7 Un Certain Regard
\n\u00b7 Camera d\u2019Or
The honour to preside over this year\u2019s\u00a0jury has been delegated to US\u00a0directors and brothers Joel and Ethan\u00a0Coen. The famous Coen brothers\u00a0won Palme d\u2019Or in 1991 for Burton\u00a0Fink.
\n\n\nWomen\u00a0in Motion – new\u00a0programme dedicated to\u00a0woman in film.
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The festival\u2019s organisers pointed out\u00a0the symbolism in this year\u2019s presiding\u00a0of the Coen brothers over the\u00a0jury, because the Cannes Film Festival\u00a0is celebrating 120 years since the\u00a0Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph\u00a0motion picture camera,\u00a0which is considered to be the very\u00a0beginning of the film industry, so the\u00a068th Cannes Film Festival will also be\u00a0dedicated to the work and efforts of\u00a0\u201ccinema brothers\u201d who influenced\u00a0the development of global cinema.
\nPalme d\u2019Or
\nPalme d\u2019Or represents one of the\u00a0most\u00a0important and prestigious awards\u00a0in the film industry. Palme d\u2019Or\u00a0was introduced as the main prize of\u00a0the Festival de Cannes in 1955 and\u00a0it was awarded to Delbert Mann\u00a0for the film \u201cMarty\u201d. Up to this point,\u00a0the award that was given was\u00a0Grand Prix du Festival International\u00a0du Film, which is today awarded as a\u00a0special award and holds less significance\u00a0than Palme d\u2019Or.
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Around 20 films compete for Palme\u00a0d\u2019Or every year in May. The jury made\u00a0up of various cinema professionals\u00a0awards films in categories such\u00a0as best actor, best actress, best director,\u00a0best screenwriter, the jury\u2019s\u00a0Grand Prix, and the main award \u2013\u00a0Palme d\u2019Or.
\nAn interesting fact is that, until now,\u00a0Palme d\u2019Or was won twice only by\u00a0Alf Sj\u00f6berg, Francis Ford Coppola,\u00a0Shohei\u00a0Imamura, Emir Kusturica, Bille\u00a0August, Michael Haneke, and brothers\u00a0Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
\nWomen in Motion
\nAt the coming 68th Festival de Cannes,\u00a0a new programme dedicated to\u00a0women in cinema will be presented.
\nThis programme has been named\u00a0Women\u00a0in Motion, and it will be realised\u00a0in cooperation with the French
\ncompany Kering.
\nThe organisers were often targeted\u00a0for giving unfair advantage to men,\u00a0so they will try to correct these prejudices\u00a0with this selection and draw\u00a0attention to the women\u2019s role and\u00a0contribution in film.\u00a0This programme is planned to include\u00a0a number of discussion panels\u00a0addressing\u00a0the role and position of\u00a0women
\nin cinema.
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In addition, two awards are going to\u00a0be given in this category – one will be\u00a0awarded to a film industry personality\u00a0significant to the contribution of\u00a0women to cinema, while the other\u00a0will go to a young female director.
\nEver since the start of the Festival de\u00a0Cannes, Palme d\u2019Or has been won\u00a0only once by a woman – Australian
\nJane Campion for \u201cPiano\u201d in 1993.\u00a0This year, a film by a female director\u00a0will be shown at the opening ceremony\u00a0\u2013 \u201cStanding Tall\u201d by Emmanuelle\u00a0Bercot.
In addition to being of extreme significance\u00a0for cinema and the filmmaking\u00a0industry, the Festival de Cannes
\nalso represents one of the biggest\u00a0media\u00a0events. Now a tradition, international\u00a0film stars are making special\u00a0preparations for the Festival de\u00a0Cannes red carpet. Numbers of people\u00a0gather every year to, at least for\u00a0a moment, to see their favourite film\u00a0stars on the red carpet.
Miroslava Jeremic
\nThe post Festival de Cannes celebrates 120 years since the beginning of the film industry appeared first on SEE Business travel & meetings magazine.
\n", "content_text": "One of the most prestigious and respected world cinema festivals, Festival de\u00a0Cannes 2015, takes place this year for the 68th time.\nThe festival will be held from\u00a013th to 24th May, and the main selection of the competition will include 19 films,\u00a0and the festival will open film \u201cStanding Tall\u201c, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot.\nThis year, the festival line-up will include\u00a0two Serbian films, Panama by\u00a0Pavle Vuckovic and Zvizdan, coproduced\u00a0by filmmakers from Croatia, Slovenia,\u00a0and Serbia.\u00a0The host of the opening and award\u00a0ceremonies at the Festival de Cannes,\u00a0like last year, will be French actor\u00a0and singer Lambert Wilson.\nThe festival receives more than 1,500\u00a0film applications a year, but only a\u00a0few of them get the chance to be presented\u00a0and participate in the prestigious\u00a0awards competitions.\nThe Festival de Cannes will be held at\u00a0Palais des Festivals. Palais des Festivals\u00a0was built in 1949 specially for\u00a0festival\u00a0purposes where today JW\u00a0Marriott\u00a0Cannes stands, however as\u00a0the festival grew, a new palace was\u00a0erected in the eighties that still held\u00a0today.\nPromenade\nFestival History\nThe history of the Festival de Cannes\u00a0begins in 1930s, at a time when great\u00a0rivalry was instigated among the\u00a0French against the festival in Venice,\u00a0because the opinion was that Germany\u00a0and Italy were given advantage\u00a0and that only artists from these\u00a0countries were winning awards.\n\nCannes Film Festival is celebrating\u00a0120 years since the\u00a0Lumiere brothers invented\u00a0the cinematography motion\u00a0picture camera, which is\u00a0considered to be the very beginning\u00a0of the film industry.\n\nIn 1938, Minister of National Education\u00a0and Fine Arts Jean Zey started\u00a0the initiative to establish a cultural\u00a0event in France that would compete\u00a0with the festival in Venice.\nThe French government, after pressures\u00a0coming from different sides,\u00a0agreed to Zey\u2019s idea to establish the\u00a0International Cinema Festival, whose\u00a0opening ceremony was planned\u00a0for 1st September, 1939, in Cannes.\u00a0However, only one day after the festival\u00a0opening ceremony the Second\u00a0World War started. In 1946, the festival\u00a0was revived.\nIn its first years, the festival was being\u00a0held in September, due to rivalry\u00a0with the Venetian festival that also\u00a0ran that month, but in 1952 the festival\u00a0dates were changed to May, a\u00a0tradition that continues to this day.\nFestival Jury\nThe festival line-up that is going to be\u00a0shown within the Festival de Cannes\u00a0selections, as well as the selection of\u00a0those that will win awards, is entrusted\u00a0with the festival jury, appointed\u00a0by the Festival de Cannes Board of\u00a0Directors every year. For film industry\u00a0experts who earn a place in the\u00a0jury – and especially for the jury president\u00a0– this represents a particular\u00a0honour and matter of prestige.\nThe jury is made up of four categories:\n\u00b7 features in the official selection\n\u00b7 shorts\n\u00b7 Un Certain Regard\n\u00b7 Camera d\u2019Or\nThe honour to preside over this year\u2019s\u00a0jury has been delegated to US\u00a0directors and brothers Joel and Ethan\u00a0Coen. The famous Coen brothers\u00a0won Palme d\u2019Or in 1991 for Burton\u00a0Fink.\n\nWomen\u00a0in Motion – new\u00a0programme dedicated to\u00a0woman in film.\n\nThe festival\u2019s organisers pointed out\u00a0the symbolism in this year\u2019s presiding\u00a0of the Coen brothers over the\u00a0jury, because the Cannes Film Festival\u00a0is celebrating 120 years since the\u00a0Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph\u00a0motion picture camera,\u00a0which is considered to be the very\u00a0beginning of the film industry, so the\u00a068th Cannes Film Festival will also be\u00a0dedicated to the work and efforts of\u00a0\u201ccinema brothers\u201d who influenced\u00a0the development of global cinema.\nPalme d\u2019Or\nPalme d\u2019Or represents one of the\u00a0most\u00a0important and prestigious awards\u00a0in the film industry. Palme d\u2019Or\u00a0was introduced as the main prize of\u00a0the Festival de Cannes in 1955 and\u00a0it was awarded to Delbert Mann\u00a0for the film \u201cMarty\u201d. Up to this point,\u00a0the award that was given was\u00a0Grand Prix du Festival International\u00a0du Film, which is today awarded as a\u00a0special award and holds less significance\u00a0than Palme d\u2019Or.\n\nAround 20 films compete for Palme\u00a0d\u2019Or every year in May. The jury made\u00a0up of various cinema professionals\u00a0awards films in categories such\u00a0as best actor, best actress, best director,\u00a0best screenwriter, the jury\u2019s\u00a0Grand Prix, and the main award \u2013\u00a0Palme d\u2019Or.\nAn interesting fact is that, until now,\u00a0Palme d\u2019Or was won twice only by\u00a0Alf Sj\u00f6berg, Francis Ford Coppola,\u00a0Shohei\u00a0Imamura, Emir Kusturica, Bille\u00a0August, Michael Haneke, and brothers\u00a0Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.\nWomen in Motion\nAt the coming 68th Festival de Cannes,\u00a0a new programme dedicated to\u00a0women in cinema will be presented.\nThis programme has been named\u00a0Women\u00a0in Motion, and it will be realised\u00a0in cooperation with the French\ncompany Kering.\nThe organisers were often targeted\u00a0for giving unfair advantage to men,\u00a0so they will try to correct these prejudices\u00a0with this selection and draw\u00a0attention to the women\u2019s role and\u00a0contribution in film.\u00a0This programme is planned to include\u00a0a number of discussion panels\u00a0addressing\u00a0the role and position of\u00a0women\nin cinema.\nCannes\nIn addition, two awards are going to\u00a0be given in this category – one will be\u00a0awarded to a film industry personality\u00a0significant to the contribution of\u00a0women to cinema, while the other\u00a0will go to a young female director.\nEver since the start of the Festival de\u00a0Cannes, Palme d\u2019Or has been won\u00a0only once by a woman – Australian\nJane Campion for \u201cPiano\u201d in 1993.\u00a0This year, a film by a female director\u00a0will be shown at the opening ceremony\u00a0\u2013 \u201cStanding Tall\u201d by Emmanuelle\u00a0Bercot.\nIn addition to being of extreme significance\u00a0for cinema and the filmmaking\u00a0industry, the Festival de Cannes\nalso represents one of the biggest\u00a0media\u00a0events. Now a tradition, international\u00a0film stars are making special\u00a0preparations for the Festival de\u00a0Cannes red carpet. Numbers of people\u00a0gather every year to, at least for\u00a0a moment, to see their favourite film\u00a0stars on the red carpet.\nMiroslava Jeremic\nThe post Festival de Cannes celebrates 120 years since the beginning of the film industry appeared first on SEE Business travel & meetings magazine.", "date_published": "2015-05-12T14:29:02+02:00", "date_modified": "2017-03-22T10:03:26+01:00", "author": { "name": "Miroslava Jeremic", "url": "https://www.seebtm.com/en/author/miroslava/", "avatar": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/Miroslava.jpg" }, "image": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/Cannes-Film-Festival.jpg", "tags": [ "cannes", "festival", "Festival de Cannes", "film", "Hot topics" ] } ] }