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Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight Launches People’s Choice Award Endowed by Fondation Chantal Akerman
Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight has created a People's Choice Award which is backed by the Fondation Chantal Akerman.
Directors’ Fortnight, the independent selection running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, has created a People’s Choice Award which will be voted on by audiences. Directors’ Fortnight organizers said the new award will pay tribute to Chantal Akerman, “whose pioneering, eclectic and fiercely independent vision might serve as a compass for this new People’s Choice.” Directors’ Fortnight said it “(shares) a long history” with Chantal Akerman dating back to 1975, when she presented there her film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussels.” Directors’ Fortnight went to premiere Akerman’s films, including Golden Eighties (1986), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï (2007).
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