Cannes Movie Competition Might Be Postponed To Summer time
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan photographed on the Cannes Movie Competition. (Courtesy: AFP)
Highlights
- The pageant used to be cancelled final 12 months
- This 12 months, it may well be postponed to a time between the top of June-July
- Organisers want a while “to judge scenario” ahead of making resolution
Paris:
The Cannes Movie Competition, the sector’s greatest, could also be driven again to the summer season this 12 months from its standard Might date as a result of the COVID disaster, organisers mentioned Wednesday. The pageant, scheduled for Might 11 to 22, “will undoubtedly happen in 2021”, a spokeswoman instructed AFP, however may well be postponed to a time between the top of June and the top of July. The pageant used to be cancelled final 12 months, whilst rival Ecu occasions in Berlin and Venice went forward beneath strict well being restrictions.
Organisers nonetheless want a while “to judge the location firstly of the 12 months” ahead of you make a decision, the Cannes spokeswoman mentioned. The Berlin Movie Competition, which most often kicks off in February, mentioned final month it could run this 12 months’s version in two phases, a web-based providing for trade pros in March and a public tournament in June.
In 2019, Cannes’ coveted Palme d’Or used to be awarded to South Korean movie “Parasite” by means of Bong Joon-ho, which went directly to win the primary Highest Image Oscar for a non-English movie on the Hollywood Academy Awards. The Cannes pageant draws some 45,000 other people with authentic accreditations yearly, of whom round 4,500 are reporters.
Its Movie Marketplace, held along the primary festival, is the trade’s greatest market for manufacturers, vendors, consumers and programmers.
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