This year Kodak will extend its presence through numerous and solid partnerships such as Ace (Atelier du Cinéma Européen), the CST, the Short Film Corner, Straight 8, Film Schools and some national pavilions. In 2011, Kodak Entertainment Imaging is renewing its partnership with International Critics' Week: a prestigious jury will give out the Kodak "Prix Découverte", a prize awarded to reveal new talent, given to young directors of short films.
ACE – Ateliers du Cinéma Européen
Independent European Producers Association
Rendez-vous: Two breakfasts on the 14th and 15th from 9:00AM – only for producers
ACE is an independent producers’ association created 18 years ago and based in Paris/France. It gathers 180 members in 35 countries (most EU countries plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Serbia). It is supported by the EU through MEDIA, and by public and private bodies from 11 EU countries.
The association’s main activity is counseling and training in the field of feature film co-production. Every year, ACE welcomes 16 EU independent producers (with a project in development) to participate in the training programme. This small number of participants is the key of a good and rapid integration of the new members in the ACE Community and of a personalised and effective follow-up. The ACE workshops offer high level and practical training through case studies, group sessions and individual meetings. Furthermore, they are a unique opportunity for the producers to get feedback on their project from key players of the international industry (sales agents, distributors, funds, script consultants, etc) and from their peers as well, all of them being potential partners.
ACE is also a powerful network, extremely useful for its members when looking for a reliable partner in a country they are not familiar with. The association organizes events in many places all year long and is present at all major festivals and markets (Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Rome, Locarno, etc).
These last years, ACE members have regularly been awarded prizes in international film festivals and in German, French, British, Spanish and other European film Academy Awards. Three of them have been nominated this year at the American Academy Awards for the best foreign film: Luc Déry (Canada) and Miléna Poylo (France), producers of Incendies and Yorgos Tsourgiannis (Greece) producer of Dogtooth. The ACE producers Cedomir Kolar (France) and Josef Aichholzer (Austria) already obtained this supreme recognition from their American peers and competitors in the past with No Man’s Land and The Counterfeiters respectively.
Since 2009, ACE has opened its doors to non-EU producers, who have joined the community through the ACE Mundus Programme. ACE now has members from Canada, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Israel, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Russia.
The association also develops activities outside the borders of Europe, in territories with a strong market and creative film industry (Asia, Latin America). ACE recently launched several new initiatives such as the ACE Co-production Lab in Japan and the ACE Co-production Lab in Hong Kong and the Austral Industry Meetings in Chile, during the Valdivia film festival.
For more information please visit our website www.ace-producers.com or contact us at info@ace-producers.com
Contact: Alice Ormières +33 (0)6 76 71 93 82
ACE
8 rue Mayran – 75009 Paris, France
T +33 1 53 25 00 01 – F +33 1 53 32 76 94
CST – “Image and Sound Superior Technical Commission”
Rendez-vous: May 14th from 12:30
The CST is a French association of professionals from the audiovisual field, in charge of supervising the quality of the production and broadcast of sound and images, whether they are intended for cinema, television or any other medium.
http://www.cst.fr/
Angénieux
Rendez-vous: Angenieux & Kodak Cocktail on Thursday the 12th from 5:30PM
Thales Angenieux is a world renowned manufacturer of precision optics, offering highest quality zoom lenses for motion picture and broadcast productions, night vision goggles, surveillance and security lenses. Rewarded three times in Hollywood, the company has remained the worldwide leader in the film zoom lens field. Based on superior mechanics designed for both precision and durability, and the latest generation of optics, Thales Angenieux’s Optimo series of zooms have become the most sought-after lenses all over the world.
Its capacity of innovation makes Thales Angenieux a major player in today’s 3-D development. 2010 marked Angenieux’s 75th anniversary.
Thales’ subsidiary since 1993, Thales Angenieux, based in Saint-Heand (France) has 270 employees
At the nthe next Cannes Film Festival, Thales Angenieux will demonstrate to a selected audience its new “lightweight” zoom lens, the Optimo 45-120 recently unveiled at NAB 2011.
Cinematographers will love this new lens. The PL mount Optimo 45-120 is the third in the line of short, light and fast zooms. Small and light enough for handheld cameras, steadicam or crane, long enough for close-ups. It perfectly complements the other lightweight Optimo zooms – Optimo 28-76 and Optimo 15-40 - to create a unique, three zoom lens system with total combined focal range of 15-120mm. The PL mount Optimo series is now available in 24-290mm, 17-80mm, 15-40mm, 28-76mm and 45-120 focal ranges to provide a comprehensive selection of solutions that meet any production need.
For more information, visit Angenieux website on www.angenieux.com
Based on superior mechanics designed for both precision and durability, and the latest generation of optics, Thales Angenieux’s Optimo series of zooms have become the most sought-after lenses all over the world.
In 2001, Thales Angenieux launched the PL mount zoom lens Optimo 24-290 – the first in a family of innovative lenses specifically designed for 35mm cinema and large format digital production applications.
Today the PL mount Optimo series is available in 24-290mm, 17-80mm, 15-40mm, 28-76mm and 45-120 focal ranges to provide a comprehensive selection of solutions that meet any production need.
Our dedication to quality craftsmanship, the art of production and the science of engineering were recognized in 2009 with a Scientific and Engineering Award for Optimo Series15-40mm and 28-76mm zoom lenses.
In 2008, Thales Angenieux launched the Optimo DP Series of lenses designed exclusively for the new generation of low cost large format digital cameras.
The DP Series includes the Optimo DP 16-42mm and the Optimo DP 30-80mm.
Due to their exceptional optical quality, Angenieux zoom lenses facilitate 3-D image capture. A special Optimo DP 3D Package has been specially designed to gain time on 3D shootings.
Contacts
Contact: Holgar Schwaerzel
Super 8 Student Screening
Rendez-vous: Thursday May 19 at 7pm - American Pavilion in the Village International
Kodak in collaboration with The American Pavilion will celebrate the growing resurgence of Super-8mm filmmaking at the 2011 Cannes Festival. Super-8mm is experiencing a revival in the digital age, becoming more and more popular among students and independent filmmakers. Next month, young filmmakers from The American Pavilion Worldwide Student Program will be given Super-8mm cameras and Ektachrome 100D cartridges to shoot individual projects in small groups. Led by veteran super-8 filmmaker Pip Chodorov, the groups will shoot, develop and project their films during the 2011 festival in May. The screening will take place at The Roger Ebert Conference Center of The American Pavilion in the Village International on Thursday May 19 at 7pm.
Contacts
Contact: Pip Chodorov 00 33 6 11 41 05 99
Semaine de la Critique
Kodak Discovery Award
For nine years now, a jury formed by professionals of the film industry has been rewarding a short film out of the seven presented in competition at la Semaine de la Critique with the Kodak Discovery Award. Kodak offers 3 000 € in film to the winner of the award.
Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski is President of the 2011 Jury whose members comprise:
Alvaro Brechner, originally from Uruguay but now resident in Spain where most of his films are produced, this filmmaker's first feature-length movie, Bad Day To Go Fishing was shown at Cannes two years ago. His latest film has been eagerly anticipated and will be shown in the Atelier du Festival at Cannes.
Gitanjali Rao, the Indian filmmaker won Kodak's Prix Découverte with her film Printed Rainbow. She has been invited to Cannes by the Institute Français to promote her first feature-length animation film which is currently in post-production.
Huh Moonyung, the programme director of South Korea's Pusan Festival.
Sylvie Pras, the director of the cinema at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris.
La Semaine de la Critique: A breath of fresh air
Parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, La Semaine de la Critique has steadfastly remained true to its tradition of discovering new talents. Its objective has been to showcase first and second feature films by directors from all over the world. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Eustache, Otar Iosseliani, Ken Loach, Wong Kar Wai, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Guillermo del Toro or even Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu all started at la Semaine.
Shorts
Within its research of new filmmakers, La Semaine has always paid great attention to short and medium length films, first steps in the career of a director. It is by presenting their short films that la Semaine de la Critique revealed the talents of François Ozon, Gaspar Noé and Andrea Arnold.
Over the last few years, La Semaine has extended its work with short and medium length films and has tried to support the new talents even more. Kodak has always been supportive to this initiative. Many short and medium length films recently selected at La Semaine were under prestigious spotlights such as:
- 2011 French Academy Awards – Logorama (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain, France) winner of Best Short Film
- 2010 Academy Awards – Logorama (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain, France) winner of Best Animated Short
- 2010 French Academy Awards – C’est gratuit pour les filles (Marie Amachoukeli & Claire Burger) winner of Best Short Film
- 2009 French Academy Awards - Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin) and Les Paradis Perdus (Hélier Cisterne) nominated for Best Short Film
- 2008 Academy Awards – Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski, Canada) nominated for Best Animated Short
La Semaine de la Critique: 50 years of discovery
In 2011, La Semaine de la Critique celebrates its 50th edition and pays tribute to all the directors who made their debut in this section including: http://www.semainedelacritique.com/50ans.php
Contacts
Contact: Gaëlle Trehony, Fabien Fournillon, Sophie-Claire Simon
straight 8
Straight 8 at Cannes film festival
Rendez-vous: English pavilion Village International Wednesday May 18th 7:30 pm
Every year Straight 8 invites anyone, anywhere in the world to make a film on a single cartridge of Kodak super 8 film. There’s no editing or retakes - everything has to be created in camera, shot by shot, on one roll of film.
The films are returned to straight 8 unprocessed and unseen, so selected filmmakers don't see their films until they're screened to packed-out film festival audiences.
Since 2003 we’ve premiered the very best straight 8 films of the year at Cannes film festival with Kodak. The screening is always packed to capacity and the sheer energy of the Cannes event is extraordinary.
People talented enough to be chosen for the Cannes straight 8 screenings know that their film must be good, but they still have to come to the event to see it for the first time easy jetting to Cannes, camping or even sleeping on the beach, talking to people about their film, whilst not yet having seen it themselves… filmmakers have come from the UK, Germany, Mexico, Vancouver to name a few places.
The hardnosed professional film community at Cannes has embraced straight 8 too. Teary-eyed comments such as these are regularly heard after straight 8 at Cannes…
- “That made my Cannes - it’s the most refreshing thing I’ve seen for years”
- “It’s amazing to see so much raw creativity - it reminded me why i got into the business in the first place”
Past films, entry and more at www.straight8.net
www.straight8filmstock.blogspot.com
Contacts
Contact: Ed Sayers : 0044 781 381 81 36
