Cannes grand prize winner Juho Kuosmanen heads to Les Arcs as Expertise Village Ambassador – Deadline

Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, who gained the Cannes Grand Prize for Compartment No. 6 in 2021, will likely be visitor of honor on the fifth Expertise Village of France’s Les Arcs Movie Competition, working December 10-17 within the French Alps.

The three-day assembly working throughout the competition’s trade program will help eight rising European administrators and consists of workshops and one-on-one conferences aimed toward advancing their quick and feature-length works.

Kuosmanen, whose credit additionally embrace the Cannes 2016 Un Sure Regard award winner The Happiest Day within the Lifetime of Olli Mäki, will attend within the function of Expertise Village Ambassador and can meet and mentor all of the members.

Different trade professionals appearing as tutors will embrace Danish producer Katrin Pors of Copenhagen-based manufacturing firm Snowglobe; Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at France’s mk2 movies, Locarno Movie Competition programmer and Competition Scope co-founder Mathilde Henrot and music supervisor Martin Caraux from French movie music firm Bande Originale.

One of many abilities will obtain the Expertise Village Award, with the jury composed of Susan Wendt, managing director at Danish gross sales powerhouse TrustNordisk, French producer Julie Billy at June Movies and Georges Goldenstern, former director of the Cannes Cinéfondation.  

The 2022 chosen abilities and their first movies:

Angelika abramovitch (Sweden)
Catcave Hysteria (Clermont-Ferrand IFF)

Ghiath al mhitawi (Germany)
Return (Brest European FF, Max Ophuls) et Paein

Alica bednarikova (Slovakia)
Liquid Bread (La Cinef, Karlovy Range IFF)

Siiri Halko (Finland)
Nesting (Clermont-Ferrand IFF) et Katharsis Oy (Helsinki FF)

Kalman Nagy (Hungary)
Issues Like (Palm Spring FF) et The Different Finish of The Streets

Lora Mure-Ravaud (Switzerland)
Euridice, Euridice (Locarno FF) et Valet Noir (Karlovy Range IFF, Palm Spring FF)

Job Antoni Schellekens (The Netherlands)
A memori

Pascal Schuh (Germany)
Songs of a Caretaker (College students Academy Award Longlist) and Answering Eternity