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NEWS Tuesday 21 May 2019
DAY 8

CANNES

CONFIDENTIAL

Zsuzsanna

Deak © CHRIPKO LILI

Your job title? amazed by the number of really
Press officer at Cirko Film. strange coincidences!

David Japaridze (left), Republic of Georgia; Bernadette Schramm, head of IEFTA talent & Majestic, Carlton or Airbnb?
partnerships; Ruba Atiyeh, Lebanon; Lacey Tu, IEFTA board member; and Beza Hailu Lemma, Ethiopia Astrological sign?
© DR Leo. I wish I had experience of the first
IEFTA LAUNCHES You were born on… two… But Airbnb is just fine —
being in Cannes is such a
privilege, it really doesn’t matter
€10,000 PRIZE 18 August. where I spend those few hours of
sleep.

of the last 12 months?
HE MONACO-based producer from Bhutan; David Japaridze Your three favourite films What would you like to
International Emerging Film from Georgia; Farzana Boby from Lazzaro Felice, Bad Poems and say to Alejandro González
Talent Association (IEFTA), Bangladesh; Marwa Zein from Sudan; and Nuestro Tiempo. Iñárritu ?
in collaboration with the Sarai Abergel from Israel. I always think of the right
T Marché du Film, has launched With IEFTA support, Ethiopian What can we expect from question a long time after the
opportunity has passed, so
an award of €10,000, to be given to one of filmmakers are making their fifth visit to your company probably not much apart from
the 24 docs-in-progress from six countries the Cannes Film Festival following an at Cannes this year? the super boring ‘Hey Alejandro, I
participating in the Docs-in-Progress intensive weekend conference in Addis Buying films with a strong artistic absolutely love your films, I wish
showcases at the Doc Corner. Ababa where candidates from the many quality to continue our cultural one day I could work with one of
The contributing countries are Argentina, regions of Ethiopia vied to represent their mission in Hungary. them as a distributor’. Then he
Canada, Chile, Norway, Palestine and nation and its cinematic capacity. would smile politely, and look for
South Africa. IEFTA will be represented on This is IEFTA’s third year working with the When do you usually go more interesting company!
the three-person jury, with Board Member International Film Initiative of Bangladesh to bed on a typical night
Lacey Tu set to present the award during (IFIB) to produce the Dhaka To Cannes during the Festival? Outside of Cannes what
the Doc Lovers Mixer on Doc Day, on programme. Closer to home, IEFTA looks 1-2 in the morning. Don’t tell is your favourite film
Tuesday, 21 May from 18.00 to 20.00 at to its partnership with Watersprite: The anyone, but sometimes I snooze a festival and why?
the Plage des Palmes. Cambridge International Student Film bit during films. Naughty. I like Berlin for its democratic and
For the ninth year of its Global Film Festival, to provide yet another Filmmaker to-the-point set-up, and Venice
Expression initiative, IEFTA, in partnership of the Future, the invitation going to the Where are your favourite for the atmosphere, the decadent
with the Marché du Film and its Industry winner of the Watersprite Impact Award, spots to dine in Cannes? glamour, and the balmy evenings.
Workshops programme, selects and earned this year by an Israeli student Astoux et Brun for oysters (and
sponsors seven international filmmakers to filmmaker. In 2019, GFE also includes star-spotting), a little Italian bistro Are the digital platforms
come to Cannes each year. filmmakers from Bhutan, Sudan and called Salsa Rossa at the Marché the future of the cinema
Filmmakers participating this year, include Lebanon for the first time. ✦ Forville for a relaxed pizza, and industry?
Ugyen Phuntsho Rabgay, a director and Liza Foreman Chez Vincent et Nicolas for our They are already a huge part of
traditional yearly feast with my the present. But old fashioned
colleagues. theatres will always be here for us
CANNES LAUNCH FOR WORLD FILM as the experience is totally
AWARDS THAT WILL CELEBRATE Your weirdest different.
Cannes moment?
‘THE BEST OF THE BEST’ Seeing my own life in quirky What are your

WORLD Film Institute (WFI), a non-profit to vote remotely and securely through detail in Toni Erdmann — post-Festival plans?
organisation supporting the advancement blockchain infrastructure, embedded in the including, among other things, Nothing surprising: catching up
and recognition of the arts and the motion- W1 Platform. the apartment where the on sleep, eating normally, and,
picture industry worldwide and W1 The system will use unique keys and QR protagonist lived which was in most importantly, spending
the same tiny street (perhaps
Platform, the global 4K streaming platform, codes to prevent the same vote from being even the same building) where quality time with my family. And
announced in Cannes the launch of the cast or scanned more than once, allowing I lived as a Bucharest ex-pat for answering the hundreds of
unread emails — not looking
World Film Awards (WFA), to be held in votes to be recorded in real time, with full a while, and the freak accident forward to that!
November 2019 during the American Film transparency and traceability using the W1 with the sofa bed cutting her toe
Market (AFM). Platform’s decentralised blockchain ledger. in the same apartment where
How many stamps on your
Co-founded by Olympia A. Gellini and WFI founder Gellini said the idea was exactly the same thing passport?
Steven Nia, the WFA will recognise the inspired by “historic and celebrated events, happened to me… I even look a
“best of the best” films from the winners of going back over two thousand years such bit like her! I spoke to Maren Ade Zero. My passport is brand new.
various film festivals and markets around as those in Greece for sports”, as well as afterwards because we ended up
distributing the film in Hungary,
the world. modern global beauty pageants where the and I asked her whether she How long did it take you
The WFA will be live-streamed globally on best are chosen from countries around the might have been at that to answer these questions?
W1 Platform in ultra-high definition 4K world. Now the FWA provides the same for Bucharest garden party where I did it in 10-minute installments
quality, and will be the first film awards for the film world, he said. ✦ everyone saw my wounded foot, queuing up for films.
which the worldwide audience will be able Julian Newby but no, she hadn’t. She too was

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