Jane Campion to Receive Lyon Festival’s Lumiere Award
variety.comJane Campion is to receive the Prix Lumiere at the Lumiere Festival in October, it was announced on Monday.The prestigious honor adds another twist to the already complicated relationship between the Cannes Film Festival, streaming giant Netflix and the leading female director.Cannes is believed to have offered an out of competition slot in this year’s selection to Campion’s latest film “Power of the Dog.” But the film is produced for Netflix, which has a testy relationship with Cannes over the festival’s insistence that competition films must receive a French theatrical release.As that policy would mean a delay of three years before Netflix could play its own movie, it declined and is understood to have taken up an offer to premiere at the.
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