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NEWS Saturday 18 May 2019
DAY 5

Rebel Road’s The Great Alaskan Race CANNES
CONFIDENTIAL

Susana

Santos

Rodrigues

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Your job title?
Majestic, Carlton or Airbnb?
Film programmer at large.
A boat parked in the vieux port
would be my choice but, in the
Astrological sign? meantime, I’m mostly couch-
Taurus. surfing.
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BRIAN PRESLEY’S REBEL ROAD You were born on… What would you like to
say to Alejandro González
ENTERTAINMENT BANKS A full-moon night in May 1977, Iñárritu ?
Kwekwe, Zimbabwe.
ON FAITH BASED FILMS Your three favourite films ¡Órale!

EBEL Road Entertainment has group of mushers that travel 700 miles to of the last 12 months? Outside of Cannes what
launched a new distribution save the small children of Nome, Alaska There are a few upcoming is your favourite film
arm that aims to distribute from an epidemic. Presley also wrote and crushes that can’t be declared festival and why?
films that will focus on faith- directed. just yet but looking to the recent Discarding those I work with, for
R based stories that make a “The Great Alaskan Race is the amazing, past I would highlight: Denis impartiality’s sake, I would name
difference. Founder Brian Presley and his untold true story that took place in 1925 Côte’s Ghost Town Anthology, Curtas Vila do Conde -
team are in Cannes looking for potential when 20 dog mushers rode through Santiago Loza’s Brief Story from International Film Festival, in the
titles for the new venture which will release 80-below-zero temperatures to save the the Green Planet and Leo Sato’s North of Portugal, for being
films on up to 2,000 screens. children of Nome, Alaska. I am honoured The Kamagasaki Cauldron War. small in scale but big and daring
Joining Presley at Rebel Road will be to be the first to bring this great story to at heart, always full of music and
Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh as president the big screen. Togo and Balto are hugely What can we expect from plastic arts.
of production & acquisition, Tai popular but most don’t know the true
Truesdell as head of international sales, story behind the two famous sled dogs. your company
and Elizabeth Bell as general counsel/ Dog lovers will absolutely love this film at Cannes this year? Are the digital platforms
business development. and this is a film for all ages,” Presley said. With Karlovy Vary, we should be the future of the cinema
The first project to be released under the Truesdell has worked in the international fine-tuning the ultimate details industry?
new banner will be The Great Alaska and domestic sales arenas since joining for the upcoming edition of the No, digital is only one of the
Race. The film stars Presley, Treat New Regency in 1997. He managed festival (June 28–July 6), with the roads leading to the future.
Williams, Bruce Davison, Brad Leland, worldwide distribution, rights clearance, announcement of the official There are community cine-clubs
Brea Bee, and Henry Thomas, and is and rights management for over 120 selection on 28 May (10.00 CET). popping up still, site-specific
scheduled to be released nationwide by titles domestically and internationally, screenings, portable cinemas… a
Rebel Road later this year. including Alvin and the Chipmunks. ✦ When do you usually go counterculture will continue to
The film is based on the true story of a Liza Foreman to bed on a typical night unravel new paths in a people-
focussed environment.
during the Festival?
Always too late. On an What are your
uneventful night, at 2.00. post-Festival plans?
Chilling in Marseille and
Where are your favourite attending the charming literary
spots to dine in Cannes? festival Oh Les Beaux Jours!

Astoux et Brun for the
Assortiment Royal of fresh How many stamps on
seafood; Cave Forville for the your passport?
oysters and wine pairing; Bobo
bistro for some yummy Never enough. These boots are
boboiness; and La Cave for great made for walking.
traditional French cuisine.
How long did it take you
India’s CII and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting partnered with Marché Du Your weirdest Cannes to answer these questions?
Film for the Producers Network & Industry Workshop - Opening Evening moment?
Pictured are: Ashok Kumar R Parmar (left), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Three days until I got around to
Broadcasting; Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting; Bobby Bedi, Walking the red carpet with only finally answering in five minutes.
former chairman, CII National Committee on Media and Entertainment and founder, Content my underwear and heels beneath
Flow Studios; Jérôme Paillard, executive director Marché Du Film; and Prasoon Joshi, my jacket as I had to ditch the
© DR chairman, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), India. jeans in order to get in the Palais.

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