Festival De Cannes Will Launch The Marché Du Film 2020 Online From June 22 To 26
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oi-Lekhaka
By Lekhaka
The
Festival
de
Cannes
will
launch
the
Marché
du
Film
Online
on
Monday
22
June
to
support
film
industry
professionals.
In
these
trying
times
for
the
whole
world,
and
in
view
of
the
fragile
prospects
for
the
world
of
cinema,
the
Festival
has
announced
that
it
does
not
wish
to
abandon
the
field.
"No
one
knows
what
the
second
half
of
the
year
may
bring
and
whether
it
will
be
possible
to
organize
major
film
events
again
in
2020,
including
the
Festival
de
Cannes" said
Thierry
Frémaux,
General
Delegate
of
the
Festival.
"Cannes
has
therefore
decided
to
adapt
its
format
for
this
peculiar
year.
Here's
a
first
initiative:
a
Marché
du
Film
Online,
launched
by
Jérôme
Paillard,
Executive
Director
of
the
Marché.
This
brand
new
kind
of
market
is
organized
in
consultation
and
with
the
participation
of
many
professionals
from
all
over
the
world."
The
Festival
de
Cannes
is
therefore
announcing
the
launch
of
the
Marché
du
Film
Online,
a
standalone
online
market
created
to
support
the
international
film
industry
and
help
professionals.
It
will
be
held
from
Monday
22
to
Friday
26
June.
The
online
market
is
intended
to
mimic
the
market
experience
in
Cannes,
with
live
and
real-time
meetings.
It
will
offer
creative
alternatives
to
facilitate
business
and
networking
for
film
industry
professionals
from
all
over
the
world.
The
Marché
du
Film
Online
will
take
the
shape
of
a
closed
industry
space
including:
◊
Virtual
booths
for
Sales
agents
:
sales
companies
will
be
able
to
connect
with
buyers
and
to
display
their
new
films
and
projects-in-progress
in
an
online
dedicated
space
serving
as
a
digital
equivalent
to
their
booths
in
Cannes.
◊
Virtual
pavilions
for
Institutions
:
Institutions
from
all
over
the
world
will
present
their
national
cinematography,
film
commissions
and
film
locations,
support
their
producers
and
organize
meetings
in
a
virtual
space
as
they
are
used
to
doing
in
their
pavilion
in
the
Village
International.
◊
Video
Meetings
:
participants
can
request
and
organize
meetings
via
the
Marché
du
Film
networking
app
Match
and
Meet,
which
now
integrates
video
calls.
◊
Online
Screenings
:
films
completed
or
in
post-production
and
project
presentations
will
be
programmed
according
to
set
schedules
in
about
fifteen
virtual
cinemas,
to
maintain
the
market
momentum
and
allow
time
for
viewing
and
negotiation.
Reruns
will
be
organized
for
buyers
in
different
time
zones.
The
platform
will
be
based
on
Cinando's
technology
and
on
strict
security
measures
-
incl.
DRM,
individual
watermark
and
real-time
management
and
monitoring
of
admissions
to
screenings
(Cinando
is
the
platform
launched
by
the
Marché
du
Film
in
2003,
which
has
become
the
first
network
to
navigate
the
film
industry:
contacts,
films,
projects
in
development,
screeners...).
◊
Programs
&
Conferences
:
programs
and
conferences
will
for
the
most
part
be
transported
to
the
digital
space:
Cannes
Docs,
Cannes
Next,
Producers
Network,
Goes
to
Cannes,
Frontières
or
Fantastic
7
will
be
reshaped
to
offer
these
communities
-
creators,
producers,
sales
agents
-
the
same
opportunities
to
network
and
present
their
projects.
The
Marché
du
Film
Online
will
also
offer
Speed
meetings
around
composers,
book
publishers
or
producers.
Cannes
XR,
our
program
fully
dedicated
to
immersive
entertainment,
will
present
its
projects
in
an
environment
where
films
can
be
viewed
with
a
VR
headset.
Jérôme
Paillard
said:
"In
this
challenging
situation,
the
film
industry
is
expressing
a
need
for
a
spring
rendez-vous
before
the
summer.
A
survey
we
conducted
last
week
among
distributors
around
the
world
reveals
that
80%
of
them
are
interested
in
an
online
market
and
66%
have
the
capacity
to
make
acquisitions
(mainly
of
completed
films
but
also
of
films
in
post-production
and
writing).
We
won't
replace
the
Cannes
experience
with
the
Marché
du
Film
Online,
but
we
are
recreating
part
of
its
essence
online
by
offering
professionals
an
efficient
and
cutting-edge
platform
to
screen
films,
buy
them,
finance
projects
and
meet
partners.
We're
also
experimenting
a
new
market
model
that
will
allow
professionals
who
didn't
have
the
means
or
the
time
to
come
to
Cannes
to
participate".
Accreditations
for
the
Marché
du
Film
Online
will
soon
be
available
for
industry
professionals
at
an
early
bird
rate
of
€95
until
May
29
and
€195
normal
rate
after
that
-
incl.
a
one-year
subscription
to
Cinando.