The 65th Festival de Cannes kicks off tomorrow – a key date for the international film community where outstanding creative talent mixes with hard and fast business, star-studded glamour and a dash of riviera sunshine.
This year, the slightly drizzly weather forecast is of course no reflection of the calibre of skills and talent showcasing at the festival and our congratulations goes out to all of the filmmakers selected for the exciting Festival de Cannes 2012 programme.
Creative Skillset would like to extend a special congratulations to the production that contributed to the Skillset Investment Fund (SIF):
- The Angel’s Share (In Competition)
- Broken (Opening Film, Critics’ Week)
- Sightseers (Special Screening, Directors’ Fortnight)
The Angel's Share, directed by Ken Loach - selected for Cannes 2012 and a contributor to the Skills Investment Fund.
Are you going to Cannes?
Join Creative Skillset in the UK Film Centre at Cannes 2012 for a number of sessions that will focus on some of the skills areas relating to our UK skills strategy and the training schemes that we have supported as part of A Bigger Future 2.
FRIDAY 18 MAY
Digital dilemma for Cinematographers 3.15 – 4.15pm
Top cinematographers discuss how digital has affected their craft and why some have recently chosen to shoot on film instead of digitally. Join us for this discussion about film vs digital as cinematographers debate creativity issues and as formats shift and change, whether or not their work will be archived to last the test of time. Presented by Skillset Craft and Technical Skills Academy.
Marketing Movies Online 4.30 – 6pm
As film consumers spend more and more time online, it’s a potential goldmine for film marketeers – if they know what they’re doing! Helen Cowley, Head of Editorial & Digital Content at LOVEFiLM and Marketing Movies Online delegates discuss effective digital marketing campaigns using film case studies. Presented by Marketing Movies Online in association with Creative Skillset.
SATURDAY 19 MAY
Micro Scope 10.15 – 11.15am
Microbudget films are on the rise! The return on investment can be impressive for microbudget hits, a fact which has not escaped top international producers and key distributors investing in them. Join our filmmakers and distributors for some big thinking on everything microbudget – from storytelling and stretching the budget to reaching audiences. Presented by Creative England, Film London and Creative Skillset.
SUNDAY 20 MAY
Guiding Light interview 11.30am -12.30pm
Mentor: John Boorman interviewed by Katrine Boorman
First-time director Katrine Boorman will see her documentary Me and Me Dad screening in the Critics’ Week and tread the red carpet as her father, John Boorman (Deliverance, Hope and Glory), has many times before. A unique opportunity to hear an award-winning filmmaker in conversation with his filmmaker daughter about her film. Presented by Creative Skillset.
Myself and Alison Small (Director of the Skillset Craft and Technical Skills Academy) are heading out to Cannes this week and will be attending these sessions, so come and say hello!
For the full programme of events in the UK Film Centre, visit their website: www.ukfilmcentre.org.uk
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