shots in Cannes
As the industry gathers once more on the Côte d’Azur, shots will be on the ground spotlighting the people, ideas and campaigns shaping the conversation. Here's what we have planned throughout the week.
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If there’s sun, sea, the taste of rosé and the sound of someone talking about AI… it can only be Cannes.
Once again, the industry decamps to the south of France to take stock, converse about the future and celebrate the recent past. shots will be there to help with those celebrations and also to shine a light on some amazing work. Here’s a guide to everything we’re up to across the week.
Above: The legendary shots beach party on the Croisette Beach.
The shots Cannes Beach Party
Exactly when the original shots Beach Party took place is hidden by both the mists of time and alcohol-induced memory loss. But, despite the many changes the Lions has undergone over the decades, we like to think that our party, this year presented in association with XR, remains one of the staple elements of the week.
If you are a shots member, you should, by the time of reading this, have registered for your tickets and been sent a confirmation email. If that’s the case then all you need to do is head to the Hotel Victoria [Rdpt Duboys d’Angers] where you can pick up your wristband, some shots swag (the t-shirts are, as always, excellent), and even have a chat with some of the shots staff should the mood take you.
Then, come Thursday 25th June at 10pm, get your dancing shoes on, head to the Croisette Beach on la Croisette, and party like there’s no tomorrow at our Felt- and Milk & Honey Films-sponsored shin-dig. There is a tomorrow, of course, and it might even entail you having to get up early for a meeting, attend a presentation or, possibly, even give a presentation… but come on, it’s only once each year!
Above: Francois Chilot, the YDA President, introduces the winner's screening at Cinema Olympia.
The Young Director Award
shots has been a partner of the YDA for as long as the YDA has been around (29 years if you’re interested), and every year Francois Chilot, the YDA President and ‘godfather of new talent’, introduces a new crop of emerging directors to the industry.
Judged by a jury of international creatives, producers, directors and all-round industry legends, the YDA is a brilliant and unmissable screening which highlights the directors who will soon be picking up Lions, BAFTAs, Oscars and pretty much any other filmmaking award you can name.
Breakfast, provided by shots, will be available from 9:30 at Cinema Olympia, 5 Rue de la Pompe, on Thursday June 25th, after which the screening will take place. Tickets are available here, and those tickets also give entry to the YDA beach party at Belle Plage Beach at 7pm the same evening.
Above: The audience eagerly awaits the screening of the Young Director's Award-winning films.
straight 8
For the uninitiated, straight 8 is a competition which sees companies take on the challenge of creating a short on a single reel of super 8mm film with no re-takes, no editing, no grade, no post production.
What’s more, it’s screened for the first time (even to the makers) in a cinema in Cannes.
It is a riotous mix of nerves, anticipation and filmmaking creativity which has, over the years, heralded some mini-masterpieces, which is one of the reason shots sponsors this great event.
The straight 8 screening will take place at 11am on Friday June 26th at Cinema les Arcades, 77 Rue Félix Faure.
Breakfast will be available from 10am at Nivà café [next door to the cinema], provided by shots.
Above: Excited crowds gather for the shots-sponsored breakfast and straight 8 screening at Cinema les Arcades.
The shots Cannes Podcast
Over the course of the week we’ll be releasing a series of short, insightful podcast interviews with a selection of creatives, producers, brand CMOs and other notable industry figures to whom we’ll be speaking while on the ground in Cannes; the work they’ve loved, the challenges they’ve faced, the future they’re anticipating…
You can find the episodes on the shots and XR social channels, Spotify and YouTube.
