Showing posts with label Cannes Film Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cannes Film Festival. Show all posts

Sunday, May 28, 2023

The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival: Complete List of Winners

 


The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival: Complete List of Winners


Official poster of the 76th Cannes Film Festival featuring actress Catherine Deneuve during a shooting of La Chamade (1968)

Opening film
Jeanne du Barry
Closing film
Elemental

The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival held from 16 to 27 May 2023.
The closing ceremony of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival took place on May 27 at 20.30 CEST (19.30 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.


Justine Triet became the third woman to win the Palme d'OR, after Jane Campion in 1993, and Julia Ducournau in 2021.
Her French courtroom drama tells the story of a writer accused of her husband's murder.




PALME D’OR
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (ANATOMY OF A FALL) directed by Justine TRIET

GRAND PRIX
THE ZONE OF INTEREST directed by Jonathan GLAZER

BEST DIRECTOR
TRAN ANH Hùng for LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (THE POT-AU-FEU)

JURY PRIZE
KUOLLEET LEHDET (FALLEN LEAVES) directed by Aki KAURISMÄKI

BEST SCREENPLAY
SAKAMOTO Yuji for KAIBUTSU (MONSTER) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Merve DIZDAR for KURU OTLAR USTUNE (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Koji YAKUSHO for PERFECT DAYS directed by Wim WENDERS

SHORT FILMS
2023 winners' list
PALME D’OR
27 for Flóra Anna BUDA

SPECIAL MENTION
FÁR (INTRUSION) directed by Gunnur MARTINSDÓTTIR SCHLÜTER

UN CERTAIN REGARD
2023 winners' list
UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE
HOW TO HAVE SEX directed by Molly MANNING WALKER

JURY PRIZE
LES MEUTES (HOUNDS) directed by Kamal LAZRAQ

BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE
Asmae EL MOUDIR for KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES)

NEW VOICE PRIZE
AUGURE (OMEN) directed by BALOJI

ENSEMBLE PRIZE
CROWRÃ (THE BURITI FLOWER) directed by João SALAVIZA & Renée NADER MESSORA

FREEDOM PRIZE
GOODBYE JULIA directed by Mohamed KORDOFANI

LA CINEF
2023 winners' list
FIRST PRIZE
NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING directed by Marlene Emilie LYNGSTAD
Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark

SECOND PRIZE
HOLE directed by HWANG Hyein
Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea

THIRD PRIZE
AYYUR (MOON) directed by Zineb WAKRIM
ÉSAV Marrakech, Morocco

CAMÉRA D'OR
2023 winners' list

BÊN TRONG VO KEN VANG (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL) de THIEN AN PHAM

Directors’ Fortnight

L’ŒIL D'OR - YEAR OF THE DOCUMENTARY (EX ÆQUO)
2023 winners' list

LES FILLES D’OLFA directed by Kaouther BEN HANIA

KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) directed by Asmae EL MOUDIR

THE HIGHER TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR SOUND AND IMAGES
2023 winners' list

The CST jury has awarded the CST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN AWARD 2023 to Johnnie Burn from the film THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Jonathan Glazer and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Anne-Sophie Delseries, head set designer for the film LE THÉORÈME DE MARGUERITE (MARGUERITE’S THEOREME) by Anna Novion.

Thanks to the delicacy of her work, Anne-Sophie Delseries succeeded in giving birth to a third character who is an essential part of the film’s narrative.

Honorary Palme d’Or
Michael Douglas
Harrison Ford 

The Head of the Jury 
Ruben Östlund


Source





Friday, April 14, 2023

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection


The 76th edition of the festival will run May 16-27.

Official Selection 2023

Competition

Opening Film
  • Jeanne du Barry, Maiwenn
  • A Brighter TomorrowNanni Moretti
  • About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet
  • Asteroid City, Wes Anderson
  • Banel Et Adama, Ramata-Toulaye Sy
  • Club Zero, Jessica Hausner
  • Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismaki
  • Firebrand, Karim Aïnouz
  • Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania
  • Jeunesse, Wang Bing
  • Kidnapped, Marco Bellocchio
  • La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
  • La Passion De Dodin Bouffant, Tran Anh Hung
  • Last Summer, Catherine Breillat
  • May December, Todd Haynes
  • Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • The Old Oak, Ken Loach
  • Perfect Days, Wim Wenders
  • The Zone Of Interest, Jonathan Glazer

Out Of Competition

  • Cobweb, Kim Jee-Woon
  • The Idol, Sam Levinson
  • Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, James Mangold
  • Jeanne du Barry, Maiwenn (opening film)
  • Killers Of The Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese

Midnight Screenings

  • Acide, Just Philippot
  • Kennedy, Anurag Kashyap
  • Omar La Fraise, Elias Belkeddar

Cannes Premiere

  • Bonnard, Pierre And Marthe, Martin Provost
  • Cerrar Los Ojos (Fermer Les Yeux), Victor Erice
  • Kubi, Takeshi Kitano
  • Le Temps D’aimer, Katell Quillévéré

Special Screenings

  • Le Bruit Du Temps, Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders
  • Man In Black, Wang Bing
  • Occupied City, Steve McQueen
  • Pictures Of Ghosts, Kleber Mendonça Filho

Un Certain Regard

  • The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen
  • The Buriti Flower, João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
  • The Delinquents, Rodrigo Moreno
  • Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani
  • Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon
  • How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
  • If Only I Could Hibernate, Zoljargal Purevdash
  • Le Regne Animal, Thomas Cailley (UCR opening film)
  • Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraq
  • The Mother Of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir
  • The New Boy, Warwick Thornton
  • Omen, Baloji Tshiani
  • Rien À Perdre, Delphine Deloget
  • Rosalie, Stephanie di Giusto
  • The Settlers, Felipe Gálvez
  • Simple Comme Sylvain, Monia Chokri
  • Terrestrial Verses, Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami

Sunday, September 11, 2022

From Mati Diop To Alice Diop: Two French Senagalese Female Filmmakers Who Have Made History

From Mati Diop To Alice Diop: Two French Senagalese Female Filmmakers Who Have Made History in Cannes and Venice

First it was Mati Diop, the French-Senegalese filmmaker whose first feature film "Atlantics" made her the first black female director to be in the Official Selection in competition for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix equivalent of the silver prize at the 2019 annual Cannes Film Festival, making her the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history. And another French Senegalese filmmaker, Alice Diop with the same surname has just made history as first black female filmmaker to win the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, for her first feature, "Saint Omer" and also the Lion of the Future LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS Venice Award for a debut film at the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival in 2022.




Mati Diop was born in Paris on June 22 in 1982 and Alice Diop was born in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France in 1979.

-  By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.

The following is from an interview with Alice Diop on the making of "Saint Omer".

What led you to develop it as a narrative feature?

A documentary was never the plan. At the time, I was too busy with research, plus we couldn’t shoot in the courtroom and I would never [make the real participants] reenact the proceedings. Anyway, I wanted to recreate my experience of listening to another woman’s story while interrogating myself, facing my own difficult truths. The narrative had to trace a series of emotional states that can lead to catharsis. It’s like accelerated psychotherapy.  

https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/venice-alice-diop-saint-omer-1235367521/

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Global Top 10 on Netflix Begins on Netflix and Ends on Netflix

Global Top 10 on Netflix Begins on Netflix and Ends on Netflix

FEATURE FILM & TV
THE GLAMOUR GIRLS REMAKE IS A FLAT TAKE ON A NOLLYWOOD CLASSIC
POSTED ONJUNE 30, 2022 BY THELMA IDEOZU
https://culturecustodian.com/the-glamour-girls-remake-is-a-flat-take-on-a-nollywood-classic/

Global Top 10 on Netflix begins on Netflix and ends on Netflix.

The popularity of a movie from the street to the internet is more about  publicity than quality.
Yes, it is a basis for bragging rights, but if your movie makes the Global Top 10 of Netflix, but fails to qualify for the Official Selections of the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and fails to qualify for the nominations for the Academy Awards, you are still lagging behind the filmmakers who belong to that Ivy league of the best filmmakers in the world.
Moreover, Nollywood movies making the Global Top 10 have not stopped Netflix from losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers and not even up to 50, 000 of the millions of the followers and fans of the stars on  Instagram have subscribed to Netflix to watch their movies, except clicks of Likes and Thumbs Up for movies they have only seen the trailers. Because if all of them subscribed, Netflix will be celebrating gaining millions of new subscribers in Nigeria and not lamenting over loss of millions of subscribers worldwide.

I rate and regard the outstanding filmmakers who have made official selections and nominations and won awards at major international film festivals above those who.have not done so, but competing for bragging rights, Likes and Views on Instagram.


- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Founder/Producer,
Screen Naija YouTube Channel,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,
the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry,
247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/247nigeria
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima
https://shadowandact.com/author/MichaelChima

#film #filmmakers #Netflix #filmmakers #filmmaking #Cannes #Toronto #Berlin #Sundance #Venice #Venice #Instagram #Likes #Views #braggingrights #subscribers #movies #Nigeria #instagram #quality #globaltop10 #awards #officialselection #nominations

Saturday, May 28, 2022

"Triangle of Sadness" Wins the Palme d'Or of 75th Annual Cannes Film Festival

The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival of France ended Saturday night with all the glitz and razzmatazz of the most prestigious international film festival in the world.

Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund  won the coveted Palme d'Or at the 75th annual Cannes Film for his  satirical drama, "Triangle of Sadness".

Östlund won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2017 with "The Square".

List of All the Winners

Palme d’Or: “Triangle of Sadness” by Ruben Östlund

Grand Prix: “Close” by Lukas Dhont and “Stars at Noon” by Claire Denis

Special Prize for Cannes’ 75th anniversary: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes, “Tori and Lokita”

Jury Prize: “Eo” and “Le Otto Montagne”

Best Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “Holy Spider”

Best Actor: Song Kang Ho, “Broker”

Best Director: Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave”

Best Screenplay: “Boy from Heaven”

Camera d’Or: “War Pony,” directed by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough

Short Film Palme d’Or: “The Water Murmurs”



Tuesday, May 17, 2022

2022 Annual Cannes Film Festival : Live Updates

 #Cannes2022
#CannesFilmFestival
#Cannes
#France


View daily updates on the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival streaming live from 17 to 28 May, 2022 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres.

Vincent Lindon is the President of the jury, and the winners will be announced on 28th May 2022.

View daily updates on 
247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/247nigeria

CANNES 2022 OFFICIAL SELECTION

COMPETITION
Les Amandiers, dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Holy Spider, dir: Ali Abbasi
Crimes Of The Future, dir: David Cronenberg
Stars At Noon, dir: Claire Denis
Frère Et Soeur, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Tori And Lokita, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Armageddon Time, dir: James Gray
Close, dir: Lukas Dhont
Broker, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
RMN, dir: Cristian Mungiu
Triangle Of Sadness, dir: Ruben Ostlund
Showing Up, dir: Kelly Reichardt
Decision To Leave, dir: Park Chan-wook
Nostalgia, dir: Mario Martone
Tchaikovski’s Wife, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov
Boy From Heaven, dir: Tarik Saleh
Leila’s Brothers, dir: Saeed Roustaee
Eo, dir: Jerzy Skolimowski

UN CERTAIN REGARD
*Les Pires, dirs: Lisa Akoka, Romane Gueret
Burning Days, dir: Emin Alper
*Metronom, dir: Alexandru Belc
All The People I’ll Never Be, dir: Davy Chou
Sick Of Myself, dir: Kristoffer Borgli
Domingo And The Mist, dir: Ariel Escalante Meza
*Plan 75, dir: Hayakawa Chie
*Beast, dirs: Riley Keough, Gina Gammell
Corsage, dir: Marie Kreutzer
*Butterfly Vision, dir: Maksim Nakonechnyi
The Silent Twins, dir: Agnieszka Smocynska
The Stranger, dir: Thomas M Wright
*Joyland, dir: Saim Sadiq
*Rodeo, dir: Lola Quivoron
Godland, dir: Hlynur Palmason

CANNES PREMIERE
Nos Frangins, dir: Rachid Bouchareb
Nightfall, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Dodo, dir: Panos H Koutras
Irma Vep (series), dir: Olivier Assayas

OUT OF COMPETITION
Z (Comme Z), dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Top Gun: Maverick, dir: Joseph Kosinski
Elvis, dir: Baz Luhrmann
Novembre, dir: Cédric Jimenez
Three Thousand Years Of Longing, dir: George Miller
Mascarade, dir: Nicolas Bedos

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Hunt, dir: Lee Jung-Jae
Moonage Daydream, dir: Brett Morgen
Fumer Fait Tousser, dir: Quentin Dupieux

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
All That Breathes, dir: Shaunak Sen
The Natural History Of Destruction, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, dir: Ethan Coen

*Denotes first film, eligible for the Camera d’Or

2022 Short films and La Cinef Selections

The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival. 

TSUTSUE Amartei Armar 

Ghana/France - 15'

PO SUI TAI YANG ZHI XIN (A SHORT STORY) Bi Gan 

China - 15'

LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER'S LULLABIES) Abinash Bikram Shah 

Nepal/Hong Kong - 14'

HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA (THE WATER MURMURS) Story Chen/China - 14'

UOGOS (CHERRIES) Vytautas Katkus 

Lithuania/Italy - 15'

SAME OLD Lloyd Lee Choi 

United States - 15'

LE FEU AU LAC (FIRE AT THE LAKE) Pierre Menahem 

France - 15'

GAKJIL (PERSONA) Sujin Moon 

South Korea - 6'

LUZ NOCTURNA (NIGHT LIGHT) Kim Torres 

Costa Rica/Mexico - 14'

For its 25th edition, La Cinef has selected 13 live-action and 3 animated shorts directed by 6 male directors and 10 women directors, from among the 1,528 submitted by film schools all over the world. 

The 3 La Cinef prizes will be handed at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 26 May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

CHLIEB NÁŠ KAŽDODENNÝ (LIQUID BREAD) Alica Bednáriková

FTF VŠMU-Film and Television Faculty - Slovakia  - 26'

MUMLIFE Ruby Challenger

AFTRS - Australia - 15'

TOUT CECI VOUS REVIENDRA (ALL OF THIS BELONGS TO YOU) Lilian Fanara

La Fémis - France - 29'

LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S'EMPILENT (HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER) Laurène Fernandez

La CinéFabrique - France - 4'

IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA (A CONSPIRACY MAN) Valerio Ferrara

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Italy - 19'

THE PASS Pepi Ginsberg

NYU - United States - 15'

SHEHERUT (KINSHIP) Orin Kadoori

The Steve Tisch School of Film & Television Tel Aviv University - Israel - 24'

NAUHA Pratham Khurana

Whistling Woods International - India - 26'

JUTRO NAS TAM NIE MA (WE ARE NOT THERE TOMORROW) Olga Kłyszewicz

The Polish National Film School in Łódź - Poland - 8'

DI ER (SOMEWHERE) Li Jiahe

Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television - China - 23'

FENG ZHENG (THE SILENT WHISTLE) Li Yingtong

Emerson College - United States - 18'

MISTIDA Falcão Nhaga

ESTC - Portugal - 30'

GLORIOUS REVOLUTION Masha Novikova

London Film School - United Kingdom - 20'

100% FLÅET KÆRLIGHED (THAT'S AMORE) Malthe Saxer

Den Danske Filmskole - Denmark - 49'

HAJSZÁLREPEDÉS (CRAZE) Bianka Szelestey

Eötvös Loránd University Department of Film Studies - Hungary - 22'

SPRING ROLL DREAM Mai Vu

NFTS - United Kingdom - 9'

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/2022-short-films-and-la-cinef-selections




Friday, May 6, 2022

Nollywood : Between The Palme d'Or and Netflix d'Or

Nollywood : Between The Palme d'Or and Netflix d'Or

Well, if #Nollywood movies cannot qualify for the Official Selection for the competition for the Palme d'Or at the annual Cannes Film Festival in France, they have qualified for the Originals Selection of the #Netflix on the world wide web.

It would be great to have an annual Netflix Awards where Nigerian movies can make the Official Selection for competition for a Netflix d'Or.

If after more than 20 -30 years of making movies and your greatest achievement is having your movies on Netflix while your fellow filmmakers in other African countries are competing with the best filmmakers in the world in the Official Selection of the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival coming up from May 17 - May 28, 2022, is still better, because you to have something to cheer about than have nothing to brag about.

Cheers!

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
The Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.




Thursday, May 5, 2022

Nollywood Still Missing at the Cannes Film Festival

Nollywood Still Missing at the Cannes Film Festival

30 years since the production of the blockbuster home video, "Living in Bondage" in 1992 and 20 years after the New York Times coined the word #Nollywood in 2002 for the phenomenal guerilla film industry in Nigeria with over 2000 movies produced annually and rated as the second largest film industry in the world after the #Bollywood of India and ahead of #Hollywood of America, no Nollywood movie has ever been chosen for the Official Selections of the Cannes Film Festival when filmmakers from other African countries have competed with the best for the highly coveted Palme d'Or and have won it a couple of times.

Morocco, Senegal, Ghana and Mali are among the countries with films in the Official Selection of the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival beginning on Tuesday, 17 May and ending on Saturday, 28 May. 

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/the-films-of-the-official-selection-2022.

While, the ambitious filmmakers in the world are going to be in competition for the highly coveted Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Nigerian filmmakers are hyping themselves on Instagram and competing for bragging rights in Nollywood.

Nollywood filmmakers are lagging behind in the biggest competitions in the global film industry. That is why none of them has qualified for the Official Selections of the Cannes Film Festival and nominations for the Academy Awards.


India will be the official ‘Country of Honour’ at the upcoming Marche’s Du Film which will be organized alongside the Cannes Film Festival 2022 in France. And this is the first time that such honour has been bestowed on any country.

Nollywood, where art thou?

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,
The Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series,
the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.

Pavillon Afrique the Place where Africa Welcomes the World at Cannes Film Festival

ADVERTORIAL: Pavillon Afrique the Place where Africa Welcomes the World at Cannes Film Festival

The mission and driving force of Pavillon Afriques is to increase and give value to the representation of filmmakers, talent and producers who identify with African heritage in order to develop a viable film industry in Africa. Karine Barclais, Founder of Pavillon Afriques, believes in: 

"giving more visibility to African talents on the global scene and allowing the continent to take a better share of the multi-billion dollar film industry."

Pavillon Afriques’ visionary leadership and dedication in the industry to further the respect and demand of African cinema is at the heart of its commitment.

Pavillon Afriques (PA) brings together the finest filmmakers from Africa and its diaspora from Europe, the Caribbeans and the USA to nurture collaborations and bring to life new co-productions. It invites the rest of the world to discover the talents and the specific ways Africa tells stories.

The international film and entertainment industry is ripe for growth when looking at the incredible talent pool and cultural significance of sharing the vision of growing access to distribution of African film and audiovisuals.  It’s no longer a digital revolution, but a digital evolution!

Since 2019, the flagship event takes place each year at the Cannes Film Festival. PA has become the home where Africans and Afro-descendants welcome the rest of the world.

During 10 days, the programme will aim to educate, strategize, network and entertain through workshops, masterclass, panel discussions, country presentations, screenings, pitch sessions, cocktail parties. 

We have content looking for distribution and projects looking for investors. Come and visit Pavillon Afriques in the Village International, Pantiero side

Contact: info@pavillonafriques.com


Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Challenges of Ava DuVernay, Chinonye Chukwu and Mati Diop To Nigerian Female Filmmakers

 The Challenges of Ava DuVernay, Chinonye Chukwu and Mati Diop To Nigerian Female Filmmakers


The most accomplished black female filmmaker is without dispute, Ava Marie DuVernay, the outstanding award winning African American film director, producer and screenwriter. She won the directing award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film "Middle of Nowhere", becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on "Selma" (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film, "13th" (2016).

Following in her trail blazers' status are NIgerian born Chinonye Chukwu, the first black woman to win the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition, on January 27, 2019 at Sundance and the French Senegalese Filmmaker, Mati Diop who became the first black woman to make the Official Selection of the 2019 annual Cannes Film Festival in the competition for the Palme d'Or for her directorial debut feature "Atlantics" that won the Grand Prix.

DuVernay, Chukwu and Diop are highly intellectual and philosophical filmmakers who are psychologically nuanced.
They are as good as the best male directors in cinema and a big challenge to other black female filmmakers. But do we have Nigerian female filmmakers of the same intellectual calibre with them in Nigeria and the Diaspora?
Yes, we have. But they are few; including the most accomplished, Ngozi Onwurah, whose "Welcome II the Terrordome" in 1995 became the first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release; Branwen Okpako; Chika Anadu; Michelle Bello; Mildred Okwo and Tope Oshin.

Ngozi Onwurah

Branwen Okpako

Mildred Okwo
Tope Oshin.

The challenges of those I mentioned who work in Nollywood are several, including the scarcity of good production designers and good actors who understand English grammar for enunciation and interpretation of characters. Majority of the actors in Nollywood and Kannywood cannot act. They just want to belong to the glitz and razzmatazz of the popularity of movie stars. These fundamental challenges have negatively impacted on the overall ratings of Nigerian movies. I have seen many examples of amateurish actors in Nigerian movies by very good filmmakers.

I look forward to seeing these ambitious Nigerian female filmmakers making groundbreaking films with cheers all the way to the top from Cannes to the Oscars.

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Julia Ducournau's "TITANE" Wins the Palme d'Or of the 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France



Julia Ducournau's "TITANE" Wins the Palme d'Or of the 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France

 
Director Julia Ducournau, center, winner of the Palme d'Or for the film 'Titane' poses with Agathe Roussell, left, and Vincent Lindon during the awards ceremony at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, July 17. AP-Yonhap.

 

#cannes2021
#cannesfilmfestival
#74thcannesfilmfestival
#palmedor
#Cannes
#Awards
#winners
#julia
#leos
#bestdirector
#bestfilm
#jury
#spikelee #Juliaducournau

#Annette #leoscarax

@festivaldecannes
74th Annual Cannes Film Festival
Winners Announced 

I wanted "Annette" by Leos Carax to win the highly coveted Palme d'Or, but "Titane" by Julia Ducournau won it while Leos won the prize for the Best Director.
See my article on Leos Carax Makes "Annette" Masterpiece of Modern Cinema on https://nigeriansreportng.blogspot.com/2021/06/leos-carax-makes-annette-masterpiece-of.html

Palme d’Or
Titane, dir: Julia Ducournau

Grand Prize (TIE)
A Hero, dir: Asghar Farhadi, (Farhadi has received two Oscarsfor Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation, 2011 and The Salesman, 2016.)


Compartment No. 6, dir: Juho Kuosmanen
Best Director
Leos Carax, Annette
Best Screenplay
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Best Actress
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person In The World

Jury Prize (TIE)
Ahed’s Knee, dir: Nadav Lapid
Memoria, dir: Apichatpong Weerasthakul
Best Actor
Caleb Landry Jones, Nitram
Camera d’Or
Murina, dir: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
Short Film Palme d’Or
All The Crows In The World, dir: Tang Yi
Special Mention: August Sky, dir: Jasmin Tenucci

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Madagascan Designer Eileen Akbaraly Honored at Cannes

 

PRESS RELEASE
Madagascan Designer Eileen Akbaraly Honored at Cannes
Eileen Akbaraly received the Unity Peace Award [Best Commitment] from the collective Union-Life International

Access Multimedia Content

https://www.africa-newsroom.com/press/media/madagascan-designer-eileen-akbaraly-honored-at-cannes

CANNES, France, July 15, 2021/ -- Cannes (France), first place in world press coverage thanks to its famous film festival, a platform of global influence, has just hosted the 5th edition of the Better World Fund. At the podium, Eileen Akbaraly, founder of Made For A Woman (www.MadeForAWoman.shop), reaffirmed her entrepreneurial and creative commitment to an innovative project which is respectful of nature and profoundly human. She received the Unity Peace Award BWF.

A stone’s throw from Spike Lee's “summer palace”, the splendid president of what is, this mid-July, the most important crossroads for celebrities on the planet, a conscience of tomorrow was invited to this forum of new worlds. This was an opportunity for the young Madagascan raffia-palm craft brand to promote its values and ambitions.

Invited to speak at the high-end advocacy session ‘Mastermind’ at the opening of this day presented by the Better World French endowment fund, Eileen Akbaraly challenged the public regarding the modern mission of companies. “Customers want transparency about the origin of materials, products that have meaning, an identity inseparable from their territory. The act of purchasing is aligned with a certain relationship to the world which values human action and demonstrates natural balance.”

It is a major development for all economic and creative players from the South as well as the North, confirmed by the presence of other panelists such as OECD adviser Louis Maréchal, the president of the René Moawad Foundation, Michel Moawad from Lebanon, geopolitician Mikaa Mered, Ghanaian politician Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, and even international lawyer Stéphane Brabant.


During the evening, several hundred prestigious guests were able to appreciate the immanent beauty of the unique works of Made For A Woman, produced in the brand's workshops in Madagascar. Bags, tunics, and hats, made by hand in the tradition of the living heritage of Madagascar and colored without heavy metals or dangerous chemicals, offered testimony to a desire to magnify this inseparable link between nature, women, and men who inherit it and the risky, daring part called intelligence in action. Traceability was illustrated by the film “The Raphia Journey” by Geoffrey Gaspard, produced by Eileen Akbaraly, which was presented to guests on the Croisette.

https://bit.ly/2TdHCJN

At the end of the event, Eileen Akbaraly received the Unity Peace Award [Best Commitment] from the collective Union-Life International.

Created by Manuel Collas de La Roche as a forum conducive to advocacy for peace, solidarity, and humanism, the Better World Fund held its 5th edition within the prestigious framework of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Over the years, it has honored personalities of international rank including Jean-Michel Cousteau, Mary J. Blige, Denis Mukwege, Forest Whitaker, and HRH Prince Albert.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Made for a Woman.
 
For more images: https://bit.ly/3z2ZOoO

Press Office:
fazdahall@gmail.com
+27 834 133 346
vincent.garrigues@meroe.global
+33 640 460 542

MADE FOR A WOMAN
Anosivavaka, Ambohimanarina,
Antananarivo, Madagascar

https://madeforawoman.shop/
https://www.instagram.com/madeforawoman/
 

SOURCE
Made for a Woman

Distributed by :

APO Group
Voie du Chariot 3
1003 Lausanne – Switzerland
Tel : +41 21 547 44 44
E-mail: info (at) apo-opa.com
www.APO-opa.com