Screenwriting for Profit

Chapter 3The Cannes Film Market and Festival

Every year in mid-May, hundreds of thousands of people flock to a small town in the south of France called Cannes. There is a palpable excitement in the air, but there is also a distinct juxtaposition between the vendors, restaurateurs, hoteliers, waiters, and local townsfolk, all who take their quaint lifestyle quite seriously but each year brace for the invading hordes that bring a great deal of revenue to this sleepy little town in Provence. For a little over two weeks, Cannes becomes a hustling and bustling mini-metropolis during the Marche du Film, the official name of the film sales market, which precedes and overlaps the Festival de Cannes (the Cannes Film Festival), which possesses all of the ...