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Cinnect Officially Launches at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

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Big Picture Film Club launched its brand new film & TV marketplace platform on Friday 19th May at the Cannes Film Festival, in an event hosted by Pavillon Afriques.

Cinnect has developed a variety of unique features to reduce friction between content buyers and sellers, with a key aim of promoting the international trade of film & TV content. Users can benefit from such features as a contract creator tool, intuitive content discovery tools and communication capabilities that can allow any project to be uploaded and close on international sales deals all within the platform.

Co-Founder & CEO, Uvrisha Patel said “We are thrilled to bring Cinnect to the international stage at the Cannes Film Festival. Our platform is designed to empower film & TV  content rights holders by providing them with unprecedented opportunities to connect with buyers and expand their reach. Cannes is the perfect setting to demonstrate the power of Cinnect and how it can transform the film licensing landscape.“

Sign up to Cinnect today: www.cinnect.net.

‘Riddle of Fire’ Director Weston Razooli Takes Flight Into Fantasy With Directors’ Fortnight Feature Debut

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Weston Razooli is far more than just a writer, producer and director. He’s a world-builder, as evidenced by his feature debut, “Riddle of Fire.” The faux-’70s children’s fantasy adventure, which premieres May 20 in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight program, follows three tweens (Charlie Stover, Skyler Peters and Phoebe Ferro) on a quest for ingredients to […]

Germans Ply a Panoply of Movies in Cannes

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German cinema is in Cannes with new works by Wim Wenders and films that explore Nazi propaganda, gender identity, economic crisis, romance, betrayal and fast cars. In addition to domestic films, a dozen German co-productions are screening in this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup, including major works from the likes of Wes Anderson, Aki Kaurismäki […]

‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’: What the Critics are Saying

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night. At the glitzy Palais screening, director James Mangold and stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook and Ethann Isidore enjoyed a warm five-minute standing ovation from the crowd. But it was Indy himself, Harrison Ford, who was the center […]

Mark Dacascos-Starring ‘Glass Dragon’ Picked up by MPI Media (EXCLUSIVE)

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Mixed martial arts thriller “Glass Dragon” has been picked up for international sales by MPI Media. The company is launching the title at the Cannes Market. The film, now in post-production, is produced by Asia-facing Los Angeles company Eleven Arts and RE:Anime, a firm that adapts beloved anime series into captivating live-action films. “Glass Dragon” […]

Cannes Hidden Gem: Jason Yu Learned From Bong Joon-ho to Craft Heartfelt Horror ‘Sleep’

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First-time filmmaker Jason Yu, whose horror drama Sleep premieres in Cannes’ Critics’ Week on May 21, honed his craft under the tutelage of South Korea’s very finest. Among the aspiring director’s first industry jobs after graduating from film school in Seoul was an assistant director gig on Bong Joon-ho’s Netflix sci-fi adventure drama Okja, which […]

Cannes: Dark Sky Acquires Science Fiction Drama ‘Lola,’ Starring Stefanie Martini, Emma Appleton (Exclusive)

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Dark Sky Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Lola, the science fiction drama from writer/director Andrew Legge and starring Stefanie Martini (Prime Suspect 73, The Last Kingdom) and Emma Appleton (The Witcher, Pistol). The film will be released in early August. Giles Edwards, head of development & acquisitions at Dark Sky Films, is […]

Distinctive Spanish Docs Set for Cannes Limelight

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Cannes Docs highlights Spain as part of its Docs in Progress program, featuring four documentaries that range from the avant-garde to the introspective. Spain’s doc filmmakers have labored to establish international footing — battling the stigma that the category is made up of dry narratives, productions strive for the robust funding granted to fiction. “There’s […]

Helmut Berger, Star of Acclaimed European Art Cinema in the 60s and 70s, Dead at 78

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Austrian actor Helmut Berger, the groundbreaking star of European cinematic masterpieces such as Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned” and Vittorio De Sica’s “Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” has died at the age of 78. Berger died at home in Austria from natural causes. In one of European cinema’s most storied and creative periods, the 60s and 70s, […]

Kaouther Ben Hania on Portraying an Arab Mother Contending With Radicalization and Sexual Desires of Her Teenage Daughters in ‘Four Daughters’

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Oscar-nominated Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (“Beauty and the Dogs,” “The Man Who Sold His Skin”) is back in Cannes with “Four Daughters” a powerful drama that mixes documentary and fiction to delve into the story of Tunisia’s Olfa Hamrouni who rose to international prominence in April 2016 when she publicized the radicalization of her […]