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Call for safety review after producer injured by falling palm tree at Cannes film festival

Festival attendee was hospitalised by a falling tree on the celebrated Croisette boulevard

The incident occurred on Saturday as the team behind Brand New Landscape, which was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, were walking along Cannes’ celebrated seafront road when a three-metre tree fell on to the pavement. According to Variety, a statement from the film’s production companies, Siglo Co Ltd and LesPros Entertainment Co Ltd, said the injured man was “a LesPros Entertainment production producer escorting the cast” and that he “was immediately transported to a local hospital by emergency services”. The producers said: “Given that the Cannes film festival remains ongoing, and the incident took place in a highly frequented area, we sincerely hope for a swift investigation into the cause and the implementation of preventative measures to ensure such accidents do not happen again in the future.”

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