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EMEA Geography Manager for Intel Software College, Stephanie enjoys interacting with international Professors, kite-surfing on the Garda Lake and making short movies. Stephanie has a B.A in Film and Television from New York University. |
Streets are emptying out, students worked until late to finish their movies but everyone uloaded on time and the movies look good from what i've seen, i'll tell you more after the screening today! Hopefully the PR/Journalism students will be successful in bringing the press and filling up the screening room!! Check out the rest [...]
In order to help young filmmakers find funding for their next venture, the Festival has decided this year to set up a "Speed-Networking" space where 15 filmmakers were given the opportunity to spend 5 minutes with producers and distributors from all over the world. A unique opportunity where pitching your movie convincingly and making an impact on [...]
Visual graphics are getting more and more sophisticated and each designer's touch and sensitivity is revealing itself, the level of the students is very impressive and mind-blowing compared to what we were able to do when I was a film student more than 10 years ago. As for production crews, some have discovered that they have [...]
The ambiance is getting more and more frenetic as student crews go to shoot all over Cannes, bring back the footage to their editor all the while the motions graphics designers are laboriously crafting graphics and credits for the film which supports its message. It's interesting to see which teams are sticking to their original screenplay [...]
Today, I helped mentor team 6 who is doing a documentary on a tattooist/tattoo-artist and capturing his impressions of the Cannes festival. I followed them on their interviews and shoots around Cannes and got to witness their inside-out knowledge of the cameras which they specifically used to create a slow-motion effect directly from the camera in order to ensure [...]
I painfully discovered the past two days that the Cannes Film Festival experience is as much a 'Film' experience as it is a 'French' one. So if you come here, prepare for taxi drivers who try to scam you charmingly, pickpockets who steal your wallet before you have time to buy a 'cafe' and train strikes which [...]
Look out for my posts on the Reel Ideas Studio Competition of 3-5 mins documentaries on the Cannes Film Festival coming up next week! Talk to you then...