Cannes forms 'super-group'

Cronenberg, Loach, Polanski, Moretti, Salles, the Coens and more will work on a 60th anniversary feature.

Feb 21 2007

A handful of the world's most internationally acclaimed directors have been commissioned to make a series of short films to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival.

Walter Salles, Ken Loach, Roman Polanski, Nanni Moretti and the like have been asked to shoot three minute shorts which will then be compiled to create 'Chacun Son Cinema', a feature that will be screened simultaneously at the festival and on French television on May 20.

Referring to the filmmakers involved, festival president Gilles Jacob said they were 'Those who have the virtue – all the more critical today – of advancing cinema as an art form. Those who have had confidence in Cannes and whom Cannes in turn assisted. Those who were free and wished to give news of themselves via cinema.'

The project will feature 35 directors, with Billie August, Jane Campion, David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Atom Egoyan, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar Wai and the Coen brothers also taking part.