Cannes Film Festival Introduction

What is the oldest film festival on the earth? The answer is Cannes Film Festival. What is the most prestigious film festival? Also is Cannes Film Festival. If you want to be a qualified movie fan, you must learn something about Cannes Film Festival.

History:
At the end of the 1930s, the French Minister of National Education decided to create an international cinematographic festival in France so as to gain more free on the selection of films.
At the beginning, Cannes Film Festival is held in international nature. But latter, about in1947, it changed this model but only show films from 16 countries.
In 1955, the Golden Palm was created. Since that, the Golden Palm has served as the highest reward.
The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. The 63rd edition takes place from 12 May to 23 May 2010.

Impact:
The festival has become an important showcase for European films. Jill Forbes and Sarah Street argue in European Cinema: An Introduction, that Cannes “became…extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to sell films on the basis of their artistic quality” (page 20).Forbes and Street also point out that, along with other festivals such as Venice and Berlin, Cannes offers an opportunity to determine a particular country’s image of its cinema and generally foster the notion that European cinema is “art” cinema.
Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

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