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Cannes announces new Cinema Museum for 2028
By Stephanie Horsman - May 27, 2022
The City of Cannes says the highly anticipated International Cinema Museum will open its doors to the public in 2028.
The Cannes Film Festival has just celebrated 75 years of movie magic and as part of the celebration, the Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, announced alongside the Director of the Festival Thierry Frémaux and famed French television executive and journalist Pierre Lescure, the opening date for the new International Cinema Museum on 26th May.
‘Telling the story of this show’ will be the theme of the museum, with the first stone expected to be laid in 2025. The museum will be a massive undertaking, boasting an enormous 18,300m2 surface area dedicated entirely to the Cannes Film Festival and its illustrious, glamorous past. The idea is to make the museum a national treasure, mixing fun and tech, bringing cinema to life, depicting the history of cinema on the one hand and the Festival on the other.
“It is not a question of making a museum of the history of the Cannes Film Festival only. We want to work with all the archives to find the fundamentals of cinema,” Thierry Frémaux said at the press conference. “The idea is to put a festival in a museum with all the new technologies that are available to us. We want to give people who come in January the feeling of being in the middle of a festival in May.”
Curating the future museum will be no simple task. Hundreds of objects and archives will need to be sifted through and selected, from posters, photos, costumes, cameras, and even film sets.
“Choosing those that will take centre stage in this museum. We are starting to find great things, that’s for sure, we will have far too many for the space,” Frémaux explained of the collection, adding, “Who has already seen all the posters of each year of the Cannes Film Festival? Is there even an original collection of these posters? To tell you the truth, we do not have it ourselves, we have holes, but we started with some collectors to find the rarest years.”
There will be 5,300m2 set aside for immersive exhibitions targeted at all age groups and a dedicated children’s space where they will be able to learn about lighting, sound and even try their hand at acting.
The International Cinema Museum will be built in conjunction with the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), the French Cinematheque, the National Audio-visual Institute and the Cannes Film Festival with an estimated cost of €200 million. The plan at present is that it will rest on the site of the former André Henry sports hall, which was closed in 2007.
“There is no more mainstream cinema in France today. However, I am convinced that to show what cinema does, we need to be able to have a place that tells the story of cinema. How can we think that culture will save us if we don’t make a cinema museum?”, said Frédéric Bonnaud, Director General of Cinémathèque Française.
Guests can expect the tour of the museum to take roughly two hours, ending with a climb up the stairs and a turn on the red carpet.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron will receive the Prince Rainier III Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA on October 25 in Beverly Hills.
“It is my distinct privilege to present the Prince Rainier III Award to James Cameron," Prince Albert said in a statement. "He is one of Hollywood’s most iconic filmmakers and dedicated philanthropists. His revolutionary work has transformed the film industry, and at the same time he has helped explore the deepest parts of the oceans to help advance science and protect our most vital resources. There is no one more fitting to receive this accolade.”
Mr Cameron, a Canadian, will be honoured at the Princess Grace Awards Gala, which will also introduce the Stephen Hillenburg Animation Scholarship for young, emerging animators in film. The evening also will include a special dance performance by past Princess Grace Award winners Michelle Dorrance, Jason Samuels Smith and Joseph Wiggan, the organisers say.
The Prince Rainier III Award recognises renowned leaders in the arts whose achievements are coupled with demonstrated service to their communities. Mr Cameron, who has directed the two highest-grossing films of all time (Titanic and Avatar) while winning three Academy Awards, is being honoured for his "outstanding contributions to the arts" and "exemplary give-back”.
Previous recipients include Julie Andrews, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Glenn Close, Queen Latifah, George Lucas, Mandy Patinkin, Sibylle and Robert Redford, Twyla Tharp, Pauletta and Denzel Washington, Cicely Tyson and Dick Van Dyke.
The Prince Rainier III Award includes a grant of $25,000 to the philanthropic organisation of the recipient’s choice and a unique sculpture by artist Alex Soldier.
This year's gala celebrates the Princess Grace Foundation's 35th anniversary, during which it will award more than $1 million to artists in dance, theatre and film.
The Stephen Hillenburg Animation Award is named after the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, who, along with his wife, Karen, endowed the foundation with a donation that will encourage and assist future animators in their professional growth. Mr Hillenburg was the recipient of a Princess Grace Award in 1991 and is the first honouree to grant the foundation such a scholarship.
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The Tourism and Conventions Office (DTC) organised several promotional operations in Barcelona and Madrid to coincide with the recent tour of Spain by the Monte-Carlo Ballets.
Represented by its Director, Guillaume Rose, as well as by Laurence Aquilina, Marketing and Sales Manager, and Valérie Tomatis-Nouailhac, Head of Press Relations, the DTC's delegation visited Spain for the week of February 7 to 14.
With GDP growth of 3.2 percent in 2016 and eleventh place among visitors to the Monaco, Spain remains an attractive local market for Principality. Roundtables and individual meetings, as well as two evening presentations at the Casa Fuster Hotel in Barcelona and the Financial Club of Madrid, punctuated the promotional tour.
The DTC delegation had meetings and exchanges with 20 travel agencies and more than 60 media outlets. The premiere of the Monte-Carlo Ballet Tour in Spain, in Madrid on February 10 at the Teatros del Canal, was also an excellent showcasing opportunity for the DTC. The performance of "Romeo and Juliet", an emblematic piece of the company’s repertoire, was followed by a dinner cocktail, orchestrated with the Embassy of Monaco in Madrid, bringing together 120 guests.
The four sold-out performances in Madrid, from February 10 to 12, and that in San Sebastián, on February 15, all received a warm welcome from the Spanish public as well as critics.