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Live from Cannes 2011: Introducing the 16 Critics in our 2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Along with this comprehensive coverage we have the pleasure of hosting what we already anticipate will become an annual tradition on the site: a twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films and their bid at claiming the grand-daddy prize of them all, the Palme d'Or.
Cannes 2011: Zvyagintsev’s Elena to Close Un Certain Regard, Hazanavicius’ ‘The Artist’ Bumped Up to Main Comp
And while Zvyagintsev's Elena didn't make the Main Comp cut -- it has thankfully been accepted as the closing film in the Un Certain Regard category -- which basically means the Russian filmmaker who gave us The Return (Venice 2003) and The Banishment (Cannes 2007) will be working the film until the very last minute
Sundance Institute: Lucky 14 Join 2011 June Directors and Screenwriters Labs
Of the eight projects in the Directors Lab, seven were previously worked on in previous screenwriters labs -- they include: Sara Colangelo (pictured above) who was in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces 2010 edition, we have Romanian filmmaker Bodgan Mustata (who we previously featured) and Carlo Mirabella-Davis' genre film (not your typical Lab project) will also be included it now goes by the title of The Storm King instead of previous title On Evil.
Michelangelo Frammartino
The idea for this film came to me mysteriously, as a revelation at the end of a long journey through Calabria, my land. I tracked for a long time the shepherds on the pastures of the Ionian coast, I shot images of their animals, intrigued by the challenge of filming something uncontrollable: the beasts.
Zeina Durra
My casting director suggested her and I went to Paris to meet her. She loved the script and she's an amazing actress so of course I wanted to work with her. Playing an artist is very hard as it can come of as super fake, but Elodie is an artist in real life and that translated. Who doesn't like Dream Life of Angels?!
