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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Revolution number 10 with ‘Maradona by Kusturica’

Published on May 21, 2008

Both filmmaker and soccer legend have a profound love for the sport that made the Argentinean into a soccer god, but perhaps its their politic views that made them all the more chummy. Maradona by Kusturica is a docu film that sees the Slav filmmaker take up as much “space” as his subject matter – a sort of diary, a three year process of trying to get the legend to spill his beans and to be best buds. The docu will work in soccer markets in Europe and especially Latin America.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).