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Cannes Film Festival President Iris Knobloch Awarded Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Culture Minister
Iris Knobloch, the Cannes Film Festival president, was named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French culture minister.
Iris Knobloch, who was recently re-elected for a second mandate at the Cannes Film Festival, was awarded the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters medal by the French culture minister, Rachida Dati, at a ceremony on Sunday. The intimate ceremony, held at the Palais des Festivals, gathered Knobloch’s husband, brother, niece and Cannes general delegate Thierry Fremaux, alongside powerful entertainment industry figures such as Kering boss Francois-Henri Pinault, Tarak Ben Ammar, Vivendi’s Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Metropolitan FilmExport’s Victor Hadida, among others. Directed by Michael Hazanavicius, the black-and-white silent movie about Hollywood’s Golden Age, had been turned out by every studio.
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