Italian-born Moretti was the first non-French national to head any Cannes section.
Paolo Moretti will step down as delegate general of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight after its 2022 edition as part of a move to overhaul the 60-year parallel section, its organisers the French Directors Guild announced on Wednesday.
“The board, elected in September 2021, wishes to thoroughly rethink the Directors’ Fortnight, its name, its singularity and its strategic and militant position. As such, and in order to carry out this new project, it will soon be welcoming a new general delegate,” the Srf said in a statement.
“The Srf salutes the work...
Paolo Moretti will step down as delegate general of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight after its 2022 edition as part of a move to overhaul the 60-year parallel section, its organisers the French Directors Guild announced on Wednesday.
“The board, elected in September 2021, wishes to thoroughly rethink the Directors’ Fortnight, its name, its singularity and its strategic and militant position. As such, and in order to carry out this new project, it will soon be welcoming a new general delegate,” the Srf said in a statement.
“The Srf salutes the work...
- 2/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen a growing number of first-time or emerging filmmakers. To help young filmmakers build a long-term sustainable career and to meet the needs of an increasingly diversified audience culture and film industry, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) sees a pertinent need to assist filmmakers to expand their professional and personal horizons, enrich their crafts, network and get recognised on local and international levels.
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
- 6/2/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen a growing number of first-time and emerging filmmakers. To help young film talents build a long-term sustainable career and meet the needs of an increasingly diversified audience culture and film industry, the Hkac sees a pertinent need to assist filmmakers to expand their professional and personal visions, enrich their crafts, network and get recognised on local and international levels. In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema (New Waves, New Shores) to introduce how film festivals shape local and international film cultures, markets and industries, and how festivals inspire budding filmmakers to think out of the box and assist their careers. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is...
- 4/13/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
New Waves, New Shores will screen around 20 films, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) is collaborating with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight on a screening and seminar programme, New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema.
Backed by Create Hong Kong, the programme will screen around 20 films from 10 countries, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong (see line-up below).
The screenings will be accompanied by talks with the films’ respective talents, a talk on local and international film circuits,...
Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) is collaborating with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight on a screening and seminar programme, New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema.
Backed by Create Hong Kong, the programme will screen around 20 films from 10 countries, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong (see line-up below).
The screenings will be accompanied by talks with the films’ respective talents, a talk on local and international film circuits,...
- 4/10/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The following is excerpted from “Between Screenings,” a memoir by Peter Scarlet forthcoming from Seven Stories Press.
It’s hard to believe 32 years have flown by since Spike Lee first appeared at Cannes, but that’s when Pierre-Henri Deleau, selected “She’s Gotta Have It” for Directors’ Fortnight. Two months earlier, the film’s very successful World Premiere screening had been at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Except it was almost a disaster!
Since we’d screened Spike’s hour-long student film “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads” at Sf in 1983, those of us who programmed the fest were looking forward eagerly to the chance to see his feature debut. When he sent us a copy of “She’s Gotta Have It” we were not disappointed! Not only had he written, produced and directed the new film, he also played one of the leads, and the films’ score was by his father,...
It’s hard to believe 32 years have flown by since Spike Lee first appeared at Cannes, but that’s when Pierre-Henri Deleau, selected “She’s Gotta Have It” for Directors’ Fortnight. Two months earlier, the film’s very successful World Premiere screening had been at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Except it was almost a disaster!
Since we’d screened Spike’s hour-long student film “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads” at Sf in 1983, those of us who programmed the fest were looking forward eagerly to the chance to see his feature debut. When he sent us a copy of “She’s Gotta Have It” we were not disappointed! Not only had he written, produced and directed the new film, he also played one of the leads, and the films’ score was by his father,...
- 5/16/2018
- by Peter Scarlet
- Indiewire
Conceived amid the French social unrest of 1968, and born in 1969, Directors’ Fortnight celebrates its 50th edition this year.
Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker more associated with Cannes Official Selection than the sidebars running alongside but this year he hit Directors’ Fortnight to receive its honorary Carrosse d’Or and participate in the opening of its 50th edition in a programme of events billed as “an exceptional day with Mr Scorsese”.
The Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning director also assisted in a screening of his breakthrough picture Mean Streets, which premiered internationally in the then renegade section in 1974, and took part...
Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker more associated with Cannes Official Selection than the sidebars running alongside but this year he hit Directors’ Fortnight to receive its honorary Carrosse d’Or and participate in the opening of its 50th edition in a programme of events billed as “an exceptional day with Mr Scorsese”.
The Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning director also assisted in a screening of his breakthrough picture Mean Streets, which premiered internationally in the then renegade section in 1974, and took part...
- 5/13/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
George Lucas hasn’t exactly been Jeanne Moreau when it comes to Cannes. He hasn’t served on juries or won awards the way the late French actress did. But the Star Wars creator does have a history with the fest stretching back to 1971.
A major break for the then-27-year-old filmmaker came when his sci-fi film Thx 1138 was given a spot in the Directors’ Fortnight by the section’s founder, Pierre-Henri Deleau. When Lucas tells the story, he stresses his poverty and how he and screenwriter Walter Murch didn’t even get tickets to the screening and “snuck in and sat on...
A major break for the then-27-year-old filmmaker came when his sci-fi film Thx 1138 was given a spot in the Directors’ Fortnight by the section’s founder, Pierre-Henri Deleau. When Lucas tells the story, he stresses his poverty and how he and screenwriter Walter Murch didn’t even get tickets to the screening and “snuck in and sat on...
- 5/9/2018
- by Bill Higgins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
George Lucas hasn’t exactly been Jeanne Moreau when it comes to Cannes. He hasn’t served on juries or won awards the way the late French actress did, but the <em>Star Wars</em> creator does have a history with the fest stretching back to 1971.
A major break for the then-27-year-old filmmaker came when his sci-fi film <em>Thx 1138</em> was given a spot in the Directors’ Fortnight by the section’s founder, Pierre-Henri Deleau. When Lucas tells the story, he stresses his poverty and how he and screenwriter Walter Murch didn’t even get tickets to the screening and “snuck in ...
A major break for the then-27-year-old filmmaker came when his sci-fi film <em>Thx 1138</em> was given a spot in the Directors’ Fortnight by the section’s founder, Pierre-Henri Deleau. When Lucas tells the story, he stresses his poverty and how he and screenwriter Walter Murch didn’t even get tickets to the screening and “snuck in ...
New chief Paolo Moretti replaces Edouard Waintrop who leaves after the 2018 edition of the respected parallel sidebar.
The French Directors Guild (Société des Réalisateurs) has announced the appointment of respected Italian film programmer Paolo Moretti as delegate general of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, replacing its current head Edouard Waintrop who will step down after this year’s edition.
Moretti, who was selected by the Srf board after three-round recruitment process, will take up the role in November 2018.“The Srf put their full confidence in him to write a new chapter in the history of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight,” said the directors guild in a statement.
The French Directors Guild (Société des Réalisateurs) has announced the appointment of respected Italian film programmer Paolo Moretti as delegate general of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, replacing its current head Edouard Waintrop who will step down after this year’s edition.
Moretti, who was selected by the Srf board after three-round recruitment process, will take up the role in November 2018.“The Srf put their full confidence in him to write a new chapter in the history of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight,” said the directors guild in a statement.
- 3/2/2018
- ScreenDaily
Last year, the three-part, six-hours-and-twenty-two minutes long epic Arabian Nights by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes rejected a slot in the Cannes Film Festival’s second-rung Un Certain Regard section, opting instead to be premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs ), taking place in the same French Riviera city at the same time. Why wasn’t Arabian Nights in Cannes’ official competition? Gomes’ previous film, Tabu, won two prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival, finished 2nd Sight & Sound’s and Cinema Scope’s polls of the best films of 2012, 10th in the Village Voice’s, and 11th in both Film Comment’s and Indiewire’s; he was exactly the kind of rising art-house star who should have been competing in the most prominent part of the official festival. But organizers balked at the idea of offering such a lengthy film a slot in competition where two or three others could be chosen,...
- 5/12/2016
- MUBI
The European Film Academy has announced the five nominees for the European Discovery 2013 - Prix Fipresci.
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well...
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well...
- 10/14/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy has announced the five nominees for the European Discovery 2013 - Prix Fipresci.
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson
(Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam
(Denmark), as well...
The award recognises an up and coming director for their debut feature film.
The nominees are:
Eat Sleep Die (Ata Sova Do)
Sweden, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Gabriela Pichler
Produced By: China Åhlander
Call Girl
Sweden/Norway/Ireland/Finland, 133 min
Directed By: Mikael Marcimain
Written By: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten
Produced By: Mimmi Spång
Miele
Italy/France, 90 min
Directed By: Valeria Golino
Written By: Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella & Valeria Golino
Produced By: Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint & Raphaël Berdugo
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
The Plague (La Plaga)
Spain, 85 min
Written & Directed By: Neus Ballús
Produced By: Pau Subirós
This year’s nominations committee was comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson
(Sweden) and László Kantor (Hungary), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam
(Denmark), as well...
- 10/14/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy have announced the nominees of their annual European Discovery Award, presented as part of the European Film Awards to "a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film." This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and Mihai Chirilov (Romania) as members of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics. The nominees are: 10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear) Denmark, 92 min Directed By: Mads Matthiesen Written By: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet Produced By: Morten Kjems Juhl Broken UK, 90 min Directed By: Rufus Norris Written By: Mark O’Rowe Produced By: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill...
- 10/16/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
The European Film Academy announces the forty-seven films recommended for a nomination for the 2012 European Film Awards. Hailing from thirty-one countries, the films are listed below. Among them are some of last year's Oscar contenders, including "In Darkness" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," plus some of the 2012 festival favorites - "Rust and Bone," "The Hunt" and "Amour." The twenty countries with the most Efa members voted one national film onto the list, while the rest were chosen by a committee of Efa board membders and experts (Pierre-Henri Deleau - France, Marit Kapla - Sweden, Stefan Kitanov - Bulgaria, Paz Lázaro - Spain, Derek Malcolm - UK, and Elma Tataragic - Bosnia & Herzegovina). The membership of the Efa - consisting of 2,700 - will vote for the nominations in various categories. These will be announced November 3 at the Seville European Film Festival. On December 1, the 25th awards presendation...
- 9/11/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
The European Film Academy (Efa) has made their nomination picks for their documentary category. Janus Metz's "Armadillo," Patricio Guzman's "Nostalgia for the Light," and "Steam of Life," from directors Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen round out the three nominees. The nominations were made by a committee consisting of Efa Board Member Despina Mouzaki (Greece), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Francine Brücher (Switzerland), experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for ...
- 10/27/2010
- Indiewire
The European Film Academy nominates three documentary films for its Prix Arte award. The selection was made by Efa Board Members Despina Mouzaki (Greece), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Francine Brücher (Switzerland), along with experts Claas Danielsen (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film), Ally Derks (director Idfa, the Netherlands), and Jacques Laurent (producer, Belgium). The 2,300 members of the Efa will now watch and vote on the winner, to be awarded on December 4. The nominees are: Armadillo, Denmark/Sweden directed by Janus Metz produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockman Miesten Vuoro (Stream of Life), Finland/Sweden written & directed by Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen produced by Joonas Berghäll Nostalgia De La Luz (Nostalgia for the Light), France/Germany/Chile written & directed by Patricio Guzmán produced by Renate Sachse...
- 10/27/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
The European Film Academy has announced the films that made it to shortlist for the European Discovery, an award presented to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.
The nominees were determined by a committee comprised of Board Members Pawel Pawlikowski (U.K.), Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as film journalists Dana Linssen (the Netherlands) and Alin Taciyan (Turkey).
The shortlisted films will now be shown to all 2,000 members of the Efa, who will vote for the winner.
The 22nd European Film Awards will be held on December 12 at the Ruhr Metropolis in Germany.
The nominees were determined by a committee comprised of Board Members Pawel Pawlikowski (U.K.), Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as film journalists Dana Linssen (the Netherlands) and Alin Taciyan (Turkey).
The shortlisted films will now be shown to all 2,000 members of the Efa, who will vote for the winner.
The 22nd European Film Awards will be held on December 12 at the Ruhr Metropolis in Germany.
- 9/29/2009
- icelebz.com
- Ask me what the 1,800 voting members of the European Film Academy will choose as their top film of the year and I'd confidently say: the Romanian pic that won over Cannes. Ask me what the same jury will choose as the top film from a first time filmmaker and I could say it will be a film about a musical band. That is because out of the four choices, I'm guessing that Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit and Anton Corbijn's Control have about an equal chances on this award. The other two noms are Gegenüber (Counterparts) by Jan Bonny from Germany and A Man’s Fear of God by Özer Kiziltan. The four debut films nominated for European Discovery of 2007 were determined by a committee comprised of Fipresci (the International Federation of Film Critics) members Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), Marco Lombardi (Italy) and Dana Linssen (the Netherlands), and
- 9/27/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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