PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes on Thursday announced the selection of 18 young filmmakers to participate in the second edition of the Atelier du Festival, which gives them a chance to present their projects to producers. This year's participants include such recognized talents as Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Tropical Malady won the jury prize at Cannes in 2004; Romanian writer-director Cristi Puiu, who won the Un Certain Regard prize last year; the U.S.' Richard Press, whose 2÷3 won a special mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000; Haiti's Michelange Quay, whose L'evangile du cochon creole was nominated for a short-film Palme d'Or in 2004; South Africa's Teboho Mahlatsi, whose Portrait of a Young Man Drowning won a Silver Lion at Venice in 1999; and India's Dev Benegal, whose first feature, English, August, won a special jury prize at the Torino International Film Festival for Young Cinema in 1994.
- 3/16/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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