The team of the film 4th & 99 team touring the Palais in Cannes....

The city of Cannes is alive and bursting with energy as people from all over the world anticipate the excitement that is the Cannes International Film Festival!  People of all ages, nationalities, and professions are here to experience the grand 60th annual event that pulls in celebrities and film makers of the highest calibur.  When walking around the small Provencal town, one can feel the celebratory ambiance.  Summer is in full bloom here on the Cote d'Azur (French Riviera), and the to...

The happy, sunny town of Cannes, located 2 hours from Italy by train along the French Riviera, is alive at last, thanks to summertime and the Cannes Film Festival. Before May, and especially before February, Cannes was at rest - some streets with every fourth or so store closed, boarded up without even a sign on the door. Many clubs discos dont bother opening for more than the weekend. After all besides the year round yaghtees (young men who work on the boats) or maybe the americans from the ...

We arrived in Cannes, set up our booth in the Palais (level 01, booth 23.11) to cover the event, organize events, 3 conferences on the Future of Cinema and experiment with partners on the Second Life Cannes Island.    To follow all our activities: CannesCannes in French Future of Cinema Second Life The Cannes backstage entrance we use to go to our booth is already crowded!  ...

You will soon be transported to Gangz ' 3D rendering of La Croisette, The Palais, the 3.14 Hotel, the Baron Beach...Party film screenings, news and funDaily feature film and short film from Cannes will be screenings in the theatre. The panel on future of Cinema is scheduled live on second life May 23 at 10 am to 12 pm local timeThe project is co produced with Elegangz and Primium in partnership with filmfestivals.comThe Island is designed by Gangz http://www.elegangz.com/...

Once again, the Oporto Film Festival ­ Fantasporto has decided to invest strongly in the promotion of the coming edition on the occasion of the 60th Cannes International Film Festival. 28 years already, Fantasporto aims, as usual, at bigger and better, and the Croisette is the right meeting place and a traditional focus for the film world.For the third time, Fantasporto is going to have its own booth in the Marché du Film at the Riviera Space. This is where Fantasporto will be searching for th...

M1NT gets taste of Cannes M1NT Festival House launches in Cannes  M1NT launches its hot new club, catering exclusively to the Hollywood elite at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.  Playing host to top DJ acts Felix B from Basement Jaxx and Ben Sowton’s Bar Grooves, M1NT Festival House will be the ultimate party venue this year.   M1NT Festival House, situated in 2 acres of sculpted gardens at the heart of the world’s biggest, busiest and most glamorous film festival, is running a full schedu...

This year the Italian film industry is joining forces to present a unified face in Cannes, based in the I-Club on the first floor of the Hilton Hotel on the Croisette. This was where the old Palais du Cinema operated until the 1980s, and where Directors' Fortnight is held today. In spite of the (unfortunate) absence of Italian titles in the main competition at this 60th Cannes Film Festival - though Italy retains its second place in the list of all-time Palme d'Or winners - the participa...

Ina and Cannes Film Festival launch a themed interactive site to mark the 60th Festival: Festival Tales (ina-festivaldecannes.com) To mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Festival, the National Audiovisual Institute [INA] and the Cannes Festival present Festival Tales on the site, over 1500 audiovisual documents incorporated into interactive modules, retracing the great moments of this film event unique worldwide. This site comes in French and English versions. For 60 years, hundred of hours ...

Cannes and INA partnered to launch a new website illustrating 60 years of Cannes festivities with sound and video archiveshttp://www.ina-festivaldecannes.com/ In all, the site contains 300 hours of footage packaged in 1,500 excerpts dating back to the festival's first edition in 1946. Most of it was recorded by France's public broadcaster but footage since 1993 mostly comes courtesy of Canal Plus, now exclusive broadcaster of official events during the festival. Also a very nice interact...

The filmfestivals.com coverage : Follow those links to access our full coverage of Cannes with videos...Cannes 2006Cannes 2005Cannes 2004Cannes 2003Cannes 2002Cannes 2001 Cannes 2000Cannes 1999Cannes 1998Cannes 1997Cannes 1996Cannes 1995...

The first film market ever held in Turkey ended yesterday in Antalya and was hailed as a success both by buyers and sellers, several of whom were clearly taken aback by the sheer professionalism of the organisers.A combined total of some 200 buyers and sellers from approximately 30 countries attended the inaugural Eurasia Film Festival which took place over four days during the week-long 43rd Golden Orange Eurasia Film Festival.The launch of the film market is a bold bid by the Turks to position...

We organized, with our partner L&A, the Cannes Market Download stations for PDA, Palm for all Market contacts and screening schedules. 2 stations are available, at each entrance of the Riviera, the one bellow coming from the Palais: Online version available for your PDA or Palm at: download ...

During the Festival of Cannes, even in the big hotels there are people who work for it. For example, in the Majestic Hotel or in the Carlton hotel, which are both offering the comfort of a big Palace, there is a sign of the "Marché du Film". Because on the two first stages the hotels rooms are used for people who works in the movie world. ...

Fest21.com our new online community from MM2 Editions (editor of filmfestivals.com) has launched in Cannes. The new blog platform offers the film community the state of the art tools for video posting, podcasting and other community tools.The site is the ultimate online destination for news, ambiance, videos, audio, films from festivals, news from festivals and people who make them history. Fest21.com started in Cannes on May 17th 2006 with a booth in the Palais (Market 01 - 24.07).The new site ...

Fest21.com started here in Cannes on May 17th 2006 with a booth in the Palais (01 - 24.07). With various promotions in Moving Pictures Magazine, the Cannes Market Guide, flyers, and more. And a column in the middle of the central way through the Palais. ...

As the Cannes Film Festival moves into its final weekend, it seems that the fine art of booing is still very much “en vogue ...