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Cannes Film Festival Workers Launch Rooftop Protest At Opening-Night Gala
The Precarious Film Festival Workers Collective staged the protest over a dispute regarding pay.
Late last week, the collective launched an online petition in support of their cause, which was signed by over 300 international industry professionals, including John Landis, Louis Garrel, Ernest Dickerson, and Ariane Labed. Other signatories on the petition include Thomas Hakim, the producer behind the 2024 Cannes competition title All We Imagine As Light, Belgian filmmaker and two-time Palme d’Or winner Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and veteran French cinematographer Agnès Godard. At Monday afternoon’s opening press conference, Cannes head Thierry Frémaux addressed the collective head-on, telling journalists in the room that “everyone wants to avoid a strike” and he believed a settlement would arrive around June.
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