Cannes’ American Pavilion Interns Report Unpaid Work, Inappropriate Behavior: ‘I Feel Heavily Misled’
thewrap.comreport.Every year, the American Pavilion’s student program recruits more than 200 college students eager for experience and networking opportunities at the longstanding home-away-from-home for American film industryites attending Cannes.
According to a report by blogger Stephen Follows, a film industry data researcher and screenwriter, many were highly disillusioned by the experience, which they said failed miserably to live up to what they were sold and often put students in perilous situations.A spokesperson for The Pavilion told TheWrap they’ve reached out to Follows “to correct the many mischaracterizations of our student program … including the suggestions about French labor law that are false and defamatory.
We have no record of him reaching out to us prior to publishing; if he had we would have welcomed the opportunity to discuss with him our student program, which has helped bring thousands of students to Cannes during its 33 years.”The spokesperson did not deny that the student program costs thousands of dollars, which is confirmed on the American Pavilion website, and had no specific responses to the allegations of mistreatment.
The Pavilion is among dozens of nation-themed venues that pop up on the beach every year, a place to meet for food, drinks, WiFi, or just a comfortable chair.
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