World Films to Compete For High Honours at Cannes
CANNES, France —An international film festival, announced to be held here in September, is intended to become an annual event, and a Festival Cinema is to be built on a palatial! scale under financial support of the French Government in 1940. The. President of the Festival is Louis Lumiere, pioneer of the film industry, who gave London’s first cinema programme over forty years ago. The director whose work is adjudged the best at the Festival is to receive a prize named after M. Luminere. The authorities are determined that no competing country shall leave dissatisfied, and for this reason no award is being made for the specifically best film shown at the Festival. Instead, a Grand Prix de Cannes ig to be given to the best film sent in by each country represented. Frizes for scenarios and musical accompaniments are also to be offered.
Regarding entries at the Cannes Festival,' America, which produces more than 300 films a year, will be allowed to send 12 full-length films, and ten shorts. Great Britain, which falls into the category of lands making between 200 and 300, can enter four films of each kind.
Europe this year will have two international film festivals, for Venice is holding its customary annual event in August, Last year the
award of the Mussolini Cup to Germany for a film record of the Olympic Games aroused a storm of pro-
1 test, on the ground that the Cup could properly only be given for a fictional picture. France and the United States severed connection with the Venice Festival. English representatives at Venice joined in the protests; but the British attitude this year is expected to be largely determined by whether the Italian Government can be persuaded to offer any share of the Italian mai'ket to British productions. At present, currency restrictions make it almost impossible for British pictures to secure admission into Italian theatres.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12821, 16 August 1939, Page 6
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