Int’l Emerging Film Talent Sets Multiple Events During Cannes Fest

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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe Intl. Emerging Film Talent Assn. (IEFTA) returns to the Cannes Festival for the 12th year with film programs, panels, awards and cocktail receptions.IEFTA, with the U.N.

Refugee Agency and its Telling the Real Story program, will present the fifth edition of Refugee Voices in Film beginning at noon on May 21 and May 22, both at Palais 1.For the fourth year, IEFTA also will sponsor a cash award of $10,536 to one of the 32 docs-in-progress from eight presenting partners participating in the Marché’s Docs-in-Progress Showcases at the May 24 Cannes Docs program headed by Pierre-Alexis Chevit.Third, IEFTA, in conjunction with Arab Cinema Centre and MAD Solutions, will present the Critics Awards for Arab Films ceremony, including a special honor to the U.N.

High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the Carlton Beach. The annual Refugee Voices in Film honors filmmakers — many of whom are refugees themselves — who document people enduring irregular migration, whether from violence, famine or political oppression.This year’s works focus on the experience of women: “The Journey,” directed by Pantera; “Zahra & Nura’s Story,” directed by Menna Hamdy; “Haweya’s Story,” Moges Tafesse; “Muna’s Story,” Ragnhild Ek; and “Maymun’s Story,” Neil Bell.Each screening will be followed by a roundtable about how people can get involved and help create change.