Rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, will give a private concert Sunday, May 21, at the Chapiteau in Fontvieille to celebrate AS Monaco’s Ligue 1 title.
For the first time in 17 years, Monaco’s football club clinched the French league title Wednesday after a 2-0 victory at home against St Etienne.
Doors open Sunday at 4:30 pm with the American rapper due to perform at 6 pm in front of AS Monaco players and staff, as well as Monegasque residents and season ticket holders only.
Entry is free upon presentation of an identity card and ticket, which normally should have been picked up – a maximum of 3 tickets per person – Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, at Stade Louis II.
The private concert, which is expected to finish at 8 pm, was originally planned to take place in the Palace courtyard at 7 pm. (Feature photo: Flickr photosbyalyssa.com)
The Monaco-based International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) returns for this year’s 70th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) with four different initiatives.
First up, in partnership with the International Film Initiative of Bangladesh (IFIB), IEFTA will present Dhaka to Cannes, a biennial event in support of emerging filmmakers from Bangladesh. This year’s selected participants, Lubna Sharmin, Md Abid Mallick and Kazi Muntasir, will be brought to Cannes to take part in the Producers Workshop hosted by the Marché du Film.
This unique opportunity will include three days of intensive meetings with some of the world’s most prominent filmmakers, film executives and industry power brokers, identifying best practices and relevant programs while focusing on ways in which artistic and commercial efforts can be made sustainable across local and global markets.
A similar initiative, Addis to Cannes, was launched by IEFTA in 2010 in partnership with the Ethiopian Film Initiative to support young Ethiopian filmmakers through a career-developing trip to Cannes. Past participants have gone on to have their films shown in international festivals such as Berlin, Toronto and Venice, and sold to worldwide markets.
Through its mentorship initiative, IEFTA will also sponsor two filmmakers from Mongolia, Tsengel Davaasambuu and Mungunkhuu Distabazar, to the Producers Network.
In addition, as part of IEFTA’s sponsorship of Watersprite: The Cambridge International Student Film Festival, the runner-up of the Filmmaker of the Future prize – an award for filmmakers campaigning for change – will be brought to Cannes to take part in the Producers Workshop. This year’s participant will be UK-based Italian documentary filmmaker, Pietro Novello.
IEFTA will host on Friday, from 5 pm to 7 pm, a reception at Plage Royal for Dhaka to Cannes: A Celebration of Talent. The event will fete participating Bangladeshi filmmakers from this year’s inaugural Dhaka to Cannes initiative, as well as the Mongolian filmmakers, and Watersprite participants.
Lastly, this Sunday, from 10 am to 11:30 am, IEFTA will present its second annual Doc Corner event focusing on the enduring plight of refugees and migrants. Hosted by the Marché du Film, it will be followed by a reception from 5 pm to 7 pm on the beach of Plage 45, honouring filmmakers whose work gives a voice to refugees.
The mission of IEFTA, a Monaco non-profit, non-governmental organisation, is to discover and promote emerging cinema talent from around the world, encourage dialogue between filmmakers, promote cultural diversity and international understanding, and engage the art of cinema. Focusing on the world’s developing regions, IEFTA’s Global Film Expression provides opportunity and education to those with little to no access to resources for cinematic expression. This year marks the 11th anniversary of IEFTA-supported initiatives.
A restaurant manager who threw out a customer violently after a dispute over a €50 bill has been sentenced to one month in jail, suspended, and fined €1,000. The incident took place at Le Modjo, Quai Jean-Charles-Rey, in Fontvieille.
The customer had expressed dissatisfaction that the bill of €50 was excessive for a pasta dish and two glasses of wine. The woman complained to the police, who examined videotapes of the dispute, which took place on October 27 last year.
After the client asked for a detailed breakdown of the bill; she was forcefully ejected from the premises and fell and injured herself.
The lawyer for the victim told the court that his client was pressing for payment of €29,431.78, having had to take five days off work.
The accused denied the facts, although judge Florestan Bellinzona said that the security cameras recorded the fact that the customer was thrown out violently, and asked, “Do you often get people out that way?”
Prosecutor Alexia Brianti said she found it difficult to believe in the testimony of the defendant and remarks that did not correspond to the images on the cameras. The court doubled the length of the suspended sentence from the 15 days requested by the prosecution.
It was standing room only at MonacoUSA’s cabaret evening at Stars’n’Bars on Tuesday, with guests were on their feet for most of the 2-hour show, dancing, clapping and swaying arm-in-arm to the music of popular films, from Putting on the Ritz (1930) to Trolls (2016).
The five artists performing – Colette Marx-Nielsen, Matt Firth, Paul Spicer, Marieke Van den Wall Bake and Alicia Sedgwick – have sung and danced at major venues throughout Europe and are now based in the South of France.
Special guests of the evening were organisers of the Monte Carlo Television Festival, who generously offered VIP passes to a lucky tombola winner.
MonacoUSA Director Annette Anderson said, “Tonight was all about community. Tonight, everybody in the room from the millionaire to a young student got a chance to dance and sing along to music that brings us together.”
More than a dozen team members of the TEDxMonteCarlo, which was held on November 11, were also on hand. Like the musical performances of the evening, both the TV Festival and TEDxMonteCarlo enjoy international acclaim but they equally welcome local residents to participate and enjoy.
It was just a formality, after all. AS Monaco have finished top of France’s Ligue 1 after winning at home against Saint Etienne 2-0.
For diehard fans, it wasn’t just important to come top, but to deprive archrivals Paris Saint-Germain of a spot they had started to see as theirs by right. The Saint Etienne match was a sell-out at Stade Louis II and ticket outlets were closed on match day.
Monaco have played 37 games, with just one left in the current Ligue 1 season, away to Stade Rennais on May 20. But they are so far ahead of PSG, that the celebrations can start in earnest. PSG has finished in second place in Ligue 1, ahead of third-placed Nice, trailing PSG by nine points.
It’s not only the goals that have put the Principality’s footballers so far ahead of the pack, despite the disappointment of not beating Italian giants Juventus in the Champions League.
Photo: Facebook AS Monaco
Monaco’s young players, Mbappe in particular, have repaid many times over the faith placed in them by coach Leonardo Jardim and have come to characterise the team as one that is prepared to take risks, and reap the rewards.
A timely reminder was Mbappe’s goal in the 18th minute in Wednesday’s game, and it looked like it would be the only one in the game, which was far from one-sided. Statistically, AS Monaco were far ahead, with almost 65 percent possession. But at the end of the evening, that was not the most important number for the Monaco fans. Monaco are Number1! Germain’s 90-minute goal was icing on the cake. (Feature photo: Facebook AS Monaco)
In the traditional build-up to the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, Championship leader Sebastian Vettel and reigning World Champion Nico Rosberg are among those taking part in next week’s charity football match.
Formula One drivers, as well as a number of guest players, will take on the AS Star Team, which is led by Prince Albert and coached by Claudio Ranieri.
Ranieri is no stranger to Monaco, having coached the local team before being fired in 2014 after Monaco finished runners-up in Ligue 1. He went on to lead the UK’s lowly Leicester City to a surprise Premier League triumph in the 2015/16 season.
Joining Vettel and Rosberg, who retired at the end of last season, will be Felipe Massa, Daniel Ricciardo, Sergio Pérez, Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz Jr., Daniil Kvyat and Pascal Wehrlein.
The match, which was created by Prince Albert II in 1993, takes place on Tuesday, May 23, at Stade Louis II, with kick off at 7 pm.
Proceeds go to the AS Star Team for Children foundation, supporting underprivileged children around the world.
The Monaco-based International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) returns for this year’s 70th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) with four different initiatives.
It was standing room only at MonacoUSA’s cabaret evening at Stars’n’Bars on Tuesday, with guests were on their feet for most of the 2-hour show, dancing, clapping and swaying arm-in-arm to the music of popular films, from Putting on the Ritz (1930) to Trolls (2016).
