Cannes Film Festival started as an annual event in 1946, it is one of the worlds oldest and most well known film festivals. Cannes Film festival is a private film festival which is usually held in may, There has been 63 to date, it is at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres in Cannes-south of France.
The festival is organizes in to various sections which are as follows:
- The Official selection- The main event of the festival
- Parallel section- These are non-competitive programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema.
- Other Sections-Produced by outside organizations during the Cannes Festival
- Events
Every year in the run up to the event, the festivals board of directors select the juries who have sole responsibility for picking which films should collect a Cannes award.Jurors are chosen from a wide range of international artists, based on their body of work and respect from their peers. The most prostigeous award that is rewarded at the Cannes Film festival is the Palme d'Or which mean 'Golden Palm' for the best film.
Cannes Film festival has become an Important Showcase for Europian Films. Additionally,it is given a massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
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