The head of France's film promotion body appreciates having the chance to turn off her phone in the middle of the day for a screening.
Daniela Elstner, the head of France’s film promotion body UniFrance, knows her way around the Croisette, having been one of the nation’s top sales execs prior to taking up her current post.and what she could do without.Except the 2020 edition? Discovering a film at 8:30 a.m. and staying in that emotion all day long.Who has time to eat in Cannes? Maybe the coffee shop near the beach at 7:30 a.m. in the morning after my daily swim. Hot coffee with a view on the sea and a moment of peace.
I will clearly not miss them, as they will stay. After negotiating the merger of UniFrance with TV France entirely on Zoom, I learned a lot of things. Mutual respect is strangely more difficult to maintain over a Zoom meeting than in real life. In this sense, I hope we will be back to physical meetings in most situations.Probably the phone call of the DGSI to come to check out our booth. I thought it was a joke to stress me even more than my usual stress state.
The charger. … Post COVID, I developed the strange habit of taking bigger and bigger suitcases with me, as if I had to take half of my home environment with me on travels. Hope this will not last, as my back will clearly not support it for too long.Wiam Simav Bedirxan. You do not know her? Normal, right after Cannes she went back to Syria to teach. Coming only to Cannes for one screening of Ossama Mohammed’s and her documentary.
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