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Sunday at Cannes

May 17th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

I gorgeous day in Cannes. We had rain (mostly drizzle) on Friday followed by a beautiful day on Saturday. I am sitting with in the cabana of our Tunisian friends right on the beach. The Tunisians are awesome hosts to us and we hang out with them often. They are happy to offer us a beer (or coffee) at 10am. Yes the beach out in front of the cabana is topless, but somehow not all that spectacular because many women are, let’s just say, “retirement age”. And yes there are the 60 year old bronzed men in speedos that let me know I am another country all together.

The busiest days at the Marche du Film (FIlm Market) are Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, so I am spending most of my time this afternoon setting up appointments with film reps and distributors on Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday we may just take the day and see some sights away from Cannes.

Monday evening we are hosting a reception sponsored by Spiderwood Studios and the Austin Film Commission. We will be having some fun and will take a bunch of photos for everyone to see. In the mean time we have some invitations to pass out.

I am rushing to get to my next meeting.

I upload my photos to my facebook account. Be my friend by looking up by “Richard Dean Johnson” on Facebook. I can post to FB from my iPhone and I post smaller notes more regularly since I have it with me all the time. The laptop gets heavy to carry around in addition to the promitonal materials that I carry around with me.

Also, my friend David Anderson is a voice on KVET in Austin. He blogs more regularly than I do and you can see his posts at www.am1300thezone.com/pages/davidanderson.html. He calls into the Bucky and Bob show with daily (weekday) updates from Cannes as well.

Merci!

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Day Three in Cannes, Just Getting Started

May 15th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

This morning we woke to rain in the South of France. The weather channel is in French of course, so I could not understand the forecast, but I could look at the pictures and it looks like we are set for a few days of rain. Friday at the Marche du Film is supposed to be a very busy day. Many film buyers just come in for the long weekend so the traffic is supposed to be the heaviest during the next three days. I am travelling with Midian Films headed by Dana Glover, Michelle a DP, Mary is a writer and David Anderson is working on Promotion. David is on KVET every morning with the Buck and Bob radio show. David calls into the show with daily updates from Cannes. The time varies, since we never know where we are going to be at any particular time, but you might want to tune in.

We spent the afternoon yesterday in “The market” going from booth to booth introducing ourselves and determining if the vendor would be someone we might might want to get to know better. 1000’s and 1000’s of flims. We were referred to the three “the best sales agents in the business” and we meet with them all briefly to set up appointments for next week after the big rush is over.

I have attached the official Cannes 2009 poster. What do you think? Very thought provoking.

I have to get to The Market and start meeting distributors and collect some business cards.

Bonjour!

(I will share more of my awesome new skills in French in a later post).

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I Arrived in Cannes for Marche du Film 2009!

May 13th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

I have arrived in Cannes for Marche du Film 2009. I am setting up my Wordpress blog to automatically update my twitter account. Please go to www.savingthefarm.com or www.twitter.com/savingthefarm to follow me on Twitter.

Richard

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