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El Festival Pravia es la fiesta cultural y de entretenimiento más grande del bajío, 14 horas continuas al aire libre para celebrar la diversidad en música y arte en todas sus expresiones.
French postcard by Images - Distribution. Image: Photos D.R. Caption: Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) Le Festival.
Every year, in the third week of May, international filmmakers, stars, film industry professionals and thousands of journalists go to the Côte d'Azur. They visit the most prestigious film festival in the world, the Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes).
The Cannes Film Festival has been held every year in the French city of Cannes since 1946. The venue is the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on the La Croisette promenade. The most important prize awarded at Cannes is the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film in the International Competition. The Golden Palm is sometimes shared by several films in the same year. Other prizes awarded by the jury for the film as a whole are (in descending order) the Grand Prize of the Jury (Grand prix du jury), the Prize of the Jury (Prix du Jury) and the Special Prize of the Jury (not necessarily awarded every year). There are also prizes in the individual categories of female actor, male actor, director and screenplay. The awards in Cannes are given by a jury made up of several people, usually experienced and award-winning professionals from the film industry. Other juries also award competition films here. The most important are the FIPRESCI Prize of International Film Critics (Prix de la FIPRESCI) and the Ecumenical Jury Prize (Prix du Jury oecuménique). In addition to the main competition, there is also the short film competition with the Palme d'Or for short films (Palme d'Or du court métrage), the Cinéfondation competition, in which works by film students are awarded, as well as the Un Certain Regard series, in which the Prix Un Certain Regard has been awarded since 1998. Within the framework of the international film festival, both the directors' association Société des Réalisateurs de Films with its La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and the critics' organisation Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma with its La Semaine Internationale de la Critique hold their own independent parallel event at which a number of prizes are also awarded.
The Cannes Film Festival receives a lot of media attention, it is attended by many film stars and is a popular opportunity for film producers to present their new films and sell them to distributors. The film stars are transported in luxurious limousines to the famous red carpet, where they climb the "24 stairs to glory" and to be hidden from public view. From the 1950s onwards, Cannes became the biggest event in world cinema. Gradually, as the critic André Bazin wished, the festival became more concerned with cinema and less with mundanities, patriotism and diplomacy. Until the 1970s, embassies presented the films chosen by their governments. Major filmmakers presented major works at the festival: Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Elia Kazan, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Wise, William Wyler, Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Andrzej Wajda, Satyajit Ray, Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa. In 1997, on the occasion of the 50th Cannes Film Festival, Ingmar Bergman was awarded the "Palm of Palms" in the presence of many previous winners.In 2012 the president of the Festival at the time, Gilles Jacob,expressed a regret about the monumentality of the event, which had lost its humanity compared to the time when Kirk Douglas played football with journalists and the stars walked to the beach: "The Festival should stop growing, so as not to become an embarrassment. Cannes is the most beautiful city for a film festival, but it must remain a pleasure, not a constraint. [...] There are more and more people and media who want to come, we can't forbid them. [...] When the stars come down to the bottom of the steps, some talk to people, others don't. Many give nothing but the usual, devote themselves to their work. Many just give the agreed upon, spend a short day with the press, and leave. It's almost like a factory."
The Cannes Film Festival was conceived on the initiative of the French Minister of Education and Culture, Jean Zay. Originally planned for 1939, the first Cannes International Film Festival took place for the first time from 20 September to 5 October 1946 due to the Second World War. In 1948 and 1950, the festival was cancelled due to financing difficulties. In 1955, the best film was awarded the Palme d'Or for the first time. The trophy, designed by French jeweller Lucienne Lazon, replaced the "Grand Prix" which had been awarded until then. As a result of the Paris May riots, the 1968 festival was cancelled on 19 May. Louis Malle had already resigned as a member of the jury the evening before. Malle, François Truffaut, Claude Berri, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Claude Lelouch, Roman Polański and Jean-Luc Godard invaded the Great Hall of the Palais des Festivals and demanded the interruption of the screening as a show of solidarity with the striking workers and students. The action was also seen as a response to the dismissal of Henri Langlois as director of the Cinémathèque française shortly before. In 2014, Gilles Jacob became honorary president after 38 years of directing the Festival, his successor is Pierre Lescure. The Film Market facilitates exchanges between buyers and sellers in the film industry and has become the world's leading platform for the international film trade. In 2007, it hosted over 10,000 participants from 91 countries. In 2017, the festival celebrated its 70th edition, inviting award-winning filmmakers and screenings of series by great filmmakers. Today, the official selection is intended to reflect the world's film production. The competition generally highlights auteur or research films. The question of creating an award for original music has been raised.
Sources: Wikipedia (French, Dutch and German).
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Rohan and John met at Glastonbury, they threw one hell of a festival wedding at the Secret Garden. It was all kinds of beautiful....
Take a peek here for their full blog post on my new website!
Old poster from the Sauce Piquant Festival held every year in Raceland, Louisiana. This display is part of the Swamp Exhibit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana. (For a Shrimp Sauce Piquant recipe, see astray.com/recipes/?show=Shrimp sauce piquant.)
Rebellion is the largest punk festival on the planet and this year has a truly steller line-up – over 250 bands across seven stages including the new for 2000 capacity 2012 Opera House Stage, plus the Punk Art Festival, the Literary Stage, and a vast array of merch stalls sourced from across the globe – whats more its all indoors so the mayhem continues no matter what the weather does!!
The festival runs from Thursday 2nd Augst to Sunday 5th August and is held at The Winter Gardens, Blackpool – over the years Rebellion has become a magnet for punks from around the world with people reguarly travelling from across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USA, Canada, and as far away as Japan and Australia.
This years headliners include Rancid, Public Image Limited, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks – add to that the likes of Bow Wow Wow, Anti Pasti (first gig in 17yrs!!), TV Smith, Goldblade , Altered Images, Social Distortion (first Rebellion gig) a whole host of favourites including Eastfield, Only Ones, UK Subs, Ruts DC, Neville Staple, Spizz Energi and not forgetting a raft of new bands such as Bite Back, Vermin Suicides, Roughneck Riot.
YAMAKASA FESTIVAL
Fukuoka, JAPAN
"Osshoi! Osshoi!" These opulent floats weighing 1 ton are carried by 30 men at a time. three hundred to six hundred other men run alongside awaiting their turn. A tradition over seven centuries this festival is similar to our disappearing Bayanihan tradition. Filipinos are slowly learning the message of the Yamasaka Festival-Peaceful cooperation can beget progress.
博多山笠祭り 福岡
「おっしょい！おっしょい！」
１トンにもなる彩り豊かな山車を約３０人の男衆が交代しながら走り曳き、町ごとにタイムを競い合う。３００人、時には６００人の若者・年寄り・子供が一つの山車に入り混じりふんどし姿で走る走る。７世紀前から始まったと言われるこの祭りは、バヤニハンにも似ている。人々が手を取り合う祭りは、共同作業を忘れつつあるフィリピン人に何か問いかけるものがある。
バヤニハン
＝フィリピンの伝統的な結（ゆい）行事。引越しの際、地域の人々が大勢で家ごと持ち上げて移動する。
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17m, 1 day, 1 man production for BigWig HipHop Festival in Singapore.
Created for a short promo film which mixed timelapse and animation, you can see here...
Performance Works.. I mix the sound at this great space on Granville Island for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
This busy shopping area in Melbourne's inner east is home to a large Vietnamese community. for one summer weekend during the Lunar New Year Festival, the busy tram line and roads are shut down for a community street festival.
I wanted to create an image that could be used as a cover for a festival edition magazine. Festivals in Holland can be sunny and dry, but more often we prepare for rain (with a smile on our faces).
I shot this picture with model David Willems and an assistent holding the watering can. A little swimming pool on the ground gathered most of the rain...
I used three studio lights. Two softboxes, one left, one right from the model (without them you wouldn't see the water) and a direct spot light in front. (About two meters high)
A few of the Ironlak Family went and painted last week at Maitreya Art & Music Festival in a town called Carisbrook, two hours north of Melbourne. It’s a mulltiday outdoor music event held in the idylic Australian Bush.
From the reports we’ve heard, a pretty amazing time was had by all.
Photo: Carl Allison.