EVENTS
Cannes 2012
Industry in Focus: American Women In Film
Emily Glassman, Head of PR & Original Content, IMDb.com
Jacqueline Lyanga, Director, AFI Fest
Christine D’Souza, VP, Content Sales & Project Finance, Preferred Content
Deborah McIntosh, William Morris Endeavor
Sharon Waxman, CEO & Founder, The Wrap News Inc
In Conversation: Indie Directors at Cannes
Director Rodney Ascher, Room 237
Director Adam Leon, Gimme the Loot
Director Ben Wheatley, Sightseers
Moderated by: James Rocchi, MSN Movies and others
Industry in Focus: Showing Just Enough—The Art of Motion Picture Advertising
Academy-Award winning producer Doug Wick, Lawless
Marissa Garcia, Marketing Agent at CAA
Mark Trugman, CEO, Aspect Ratio
Bonnie Voland, Head of Marketing & Publicity, IM Global
Moderated by: Stephen Garrett, Co-founder of creative advertising agency Kinetic; former film editor, Time Out New York
Industry in Focus: State of the Industry
John Cooper, Sundance Institute
John Sloss, Cinetic
Nancy Utley, Fox Searchlight
Tom Bernard, Sony Pictures Classics
Marcus Hu, Strand
Rich Klubeck, UTA
Moderated by: Anne Thompson, “Thompson on Hollywood”
Masterclass: Andrei Konchalovsky
Moderated by Lucius Barre
Masterclass with acclaimed Russian director on his career and screening of “Runaway Train” in the Cannes Classics Section, May 21 at 5pm
Industry in Focus: Film Finance in Today’s Market
Nick LoPiccolo, Paradigm
Mark Ankner, William Morris Endeavor
Teddy Schwarzman, Black Bear Pictures
Peter Quoc Trinh, ICM | International Creative Management
Ashok Amritraj, Chairman & CEO, Hyde Park Entertainment
Moderated by: Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter
Industry in Focus: American Film Festival Programming
John Nein, Sundance Film Festival
Rose Kuo, Lincoln Center
Lane Kneedler, AFI
Frederic Boyer, Tribeca Film Festival
Moderated by: Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
Industry in Focus: The Current State of Film Acquisitions
Scott Shooman, CBS Films
Peter Van Steemberg, Magnolia Pictures
Arianna Bocco, IFC Rob Williams, Indominia Media
Moderated by: Dana Harris, Editor-in-chief, indieWIRE
Film Panel: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin, Director
Lucy Alibar, Screenwriter
Dan Janvey and Josh Penn, Producers
Ben Richardson, Cinematographer
Moderated by: John Cooper, Sundance Institute, Winner of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and screening 2012 Cannes in Un Certain Regard
In Conversation: Jennifer Lynch and Tim Roth
Announcing “A Fall From Grace”
Jennifer Lynch, Director/Screenwriter
Tim Roth, pending his jury schedule
Eric Wilkinson, Co-writer/Producer
David Michaels, Producer
Moderated by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
In Conversation: Phiilp Kaufman for Hemingway & Gellhorn
Philip Kaufman
Moderated by Annette Insdorf, Author, Philip Kaufman
Kaufman’s latest film, “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen, will have its world premiere in the Cannes Official Selection on May 25, and airs on HBO, May 28.
4 pm – Book signing
Philip Kaufman and Annette Insdorf will sign copies of the just-published book on his work Philip Kaufman (“Contemporary Film Directors” Series, University of Illinois Press)
Film Panel: The Central Park Five with Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon
Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Moderated by: Thom Powers, Toronto International Film Festival, Stranger than Fiction, DOC NYC
Screening: Straight Eight
Industry in Focus: American Short Film Directors
David Grainger, The Chair
Matthew James Reilly, Abigail.
NYU/USA Meryl O’Connor, The Ballad Of Finn + Yeti, UCLA/USA
Moderated by: Lisa Ogdie, Sundance Institute
Emerging Filmmaker Showcase
Followed by reception
Student Filmmaker Showcase
Followed by reception
Queer Night
With Guest DJ Lee Daniels.
Cash bar.
