Photo of Cannes flag via The Playlist
Covid-19 continues to re-shape all elements of the world including how the film industry works. Normally, the Cannes Film Festival, in addition to its flashy festival, serves as a hub of film sales for global markets. Now, both Variety's Nick Vivarelli and The Playlist's Charles Barfield are reporting that there is movement to potentially creating a virtual film market in the event that Cannes does not happen in May.
Vivarelli reports that a couple of possible virtual markets are at least in the talking stage.
The last official line from the fest itself is that a determination about whether it will go forward or not will be made prior to Apr. 15th. That's the day before Cannes has said it would announce the lineup for its 73rd edition.
Of course, our focus in this space on the situation with Cannes stems from the fact that Telluride often programs a number of titles from various of the Cannes platforms to screen at TFF each year. The average is around 7-8 films that play both Cannes and TFF.
The effect of a year where Cannes does not happen is uncertain.
Here are the links to the two stories mentioned above:
Vivarelli in Variety
Barfield in The Playlist
HISTORY COMPLETED
If you read last Monday's post you know that a disaster befell "The Expanded Telluride Film Festival History Part 2: 1996-Present" page over the weekend and that, at one point I had lost the the whole thing.
However, after some nifty Google hoop-jumping that saved about half of it and the use of a big chunk of Spring Break time, that History is back and more. Today's post serves to announce that the full on three project to provide a semi-detailed look at each festival's SHOWs, Guests, Tribute recipients, Guest Directors and Special Medallion recipients has been completed to the extent possible through TFF #46.
I'm keeping the "Selected TFF History" page alive for the time being for those who don't necessarily feel compelled to jump that deeply into TFF's past.
Here's the direct link to the newly completed history page.
Enjoy!
NEW TWITTER
Well, I'm adding a new Twitter account linked to the blog. For years @Gort2 has been my Twitter handle and I'm not giving it up, but I am adding a Twitter account that will be more exclusively TFF and fim related that has a handle that seems more intuitively connected to the blog itself...so follow if you want..or don't. It's an experiment and I could change my mind about its utility.
Nevertheless, the new/added Twitter account is @TheMTFB.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com
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