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May 23, 2006

Lying at Cannes

Female Jackie D | Category: Digital • Movies
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It doesn't have a sales agent. It was shot in digital video by a rookie director and cost less than $1 million. But it could prove itself one of the unexpected success stories of the Festival de Cannes.
So writes my buddy Anne Thompson for the Hollywood Reporter. Another sign o' the times comes from the story of what happened when Lying made the cut for Cannes:
Suddenly, just three weeks before Cannes was to begin, the unknown filmmaker was dropped into the big show. At first, there was jubilation -- until reality set in.

Although 25 films will screen digitally during the festival, Blash was told his film wouldn't be one of them. So he and his producers had to scramble to raise some extra cash to blow up the film to 35mm and get it subtitled. Producer Molly Hassell hand-carried the dripping print from Paris with new French subtitles Friday. "It's damn heavy," she said. "I never carried a film before."

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