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NEWS Wednesday 9 May 2018
DAY 2

THE BUZZ
OF THE DAY

IN THE WAKE OF

#METOO,

FEMME CENTRIC

EVENTS TAKE HOLD

AT CANNES

HEN asked about at The Members Club, The Grand Hotel
the fact that only Beach @Plage45. Menkes focuses on the
three of the films ways in which the systemic sexual abuse
competing for the and assault revelations that have emerged,
W Palme d’Or this year most recently around the Weinstein case,
were directed by women, Cannes Film are directly related to the way films are
Festival Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux shot to perpetuate the male gaze and
maintained that films were chosen for female oppression on-screen. © DR Mia Frye: “moving in the right direction”
their quality, not to fulfill a quota. But this The voices that have been privileged in
all-too-common response illustrates a cinema for so long are largely male and an uphill battle. The goal of Breaking to a greater diversity of projects told
dangerous blurring of the line between largely white, and these perspectives have Through the Lens, held on May 13 at from a female perspective, giving voice
gender and ability. shaped our collective consciousness. 15.00 is to change that dynamic. to women on screen,” Frye said. “To put
The issue isn’t that women should be Menkes aims to illustrate that it is not Organised by Daphne Schmon and top finance players in a room with 15
favoured in competitions, but rather that just important to increase the number of Deva Palmier of Seek Films, a panel of pre-selected female projects at our event
not enough is being done in general and women represented in film, but to pay 15 female filmmakers will present their is moving in the right direction.”
in the industry to support women in particular attention to how these women projects to financiers and producers. Many of the other events at Cannes
completing their projects, competing are represented. This event is sure to The panel will be moderated by grapple with the future of the industry
with men both in Cannes and beyond. inspire and educate people behind the choreographer, actor and talent mentor in the wake of #MeToo. Among them
This year, thanks to the many women- camera (hopefully many of them female) Mia Frye. are Take Two, an event hosted by the
lead organisations that are hosting to film women in ways that are “Statistics show that eight percent of the Swedish Film Institute, and The Girl’s
multiple femme-centric events, empowering, not demeaning. Following top 100 films in the US were directed by Lounge, a week of events hosted by
facilitating panels and spearheading the talk, Menkes will be in conversation women in 2017,” Frye said. “That’s a The Wrap.
initiatives at the festival, it feels like with journalist Liza Foreman. situation that needs addressing, clearly, “The Croisette has traditionally been
the tide is turning. In order to ensure that women are and dealing with from the bottom up.” a place for male directors, with women
One of the most prominent is film represented on the screen, they first need Breaking Through the Lens aims to be largely relegated to the oppressive beauty-
director Nina Menkes’ talk titled Sex to get their projects off the ground. But a supportive space that will give female zone of movie-stardom,” Nina Menkes
& Power: The Visual Language of in an industry that has favoured the male directors a seat at the table. said. #TimesUp indeed. ✦
Oppression, on Friday, May 11 at 12.00 voice (and gaze) for so long, this can be “Funding female directors hopefully leads Brenna Donovan

CORNERSTONE FILMS PREPARES TO SELL

A NEW VERSION OF AFTER THE WEDDING

ORNERSTONE Films is orphanage located on the outskirts of way. The events at the wedding are Julianne Moore
selling the reimagined the dilapidated, ancient city of Calcutta. dramatic, but it is after the wedding
version of After the Isabel (Williams) has made it her life’s that the truth about their lives is
Wedding at the 2018 work to care for the children there. revealed when a complex mystery
C Marché du Film. This film is Desperate for financing to keep the unravels. The characters will never be
presented by Ingenious Media, Rock orphanage running, Isabel travels to the same after the revelations
Island Films and Riverstone Pictures. It New York City to meet a potential concerning love, family, history and
will begin production soon, with Joel benefactor. fate.
Michaels, in and around New York. Theresa Young (Moore) lives a very Cornerstone Films has a robust slate of
The new version of After the Wedding different life from Isabel. She is a projects at Cannes this year, including
stars well-known faces including film multimillionaire who founded and runs Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The
and theatre actor Billy Crudup, a very successful media company. Light, Sophie Hyde’s Animals, Mirrah
Academy Award-winner Julianne Theresa owns an estate outside of the Foulkes’ feature film directorial debut,
Moore, and four-time Academy Award- city and has a loving husband, young Judy and Punch starring Mia
nominated Michelle Williams. Bart twin boys and an older daughter, Grace, Wasikowska and Damon Herriman, and
Freundlich is directing this reimagining who is getting married on the Academy Award Nominee Henry-Alex
of Susanne Bier’s original emotionally upcoming weekend. Rubin’s crime-thriller Semper Fi starring
powerful film. During her visit, Isabel’s world collides Nat Wolff and Jai Courtney. ✦
After the Wedding features an with the Young family in an unexpected Chloe Teboe © DR

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