NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley Thanks Kering Women In Motion Award For Sparking Career Reflection: ‘I Am Driven To See What’s Next’
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer It’s something out of a movie, the way a young Donna Langley first discovered the magic of film.
The chairman of NBCU studio group and chief content officer was in her late teens, broadening her horizons in Paris away from her upbringing on the tiny Isle of Wight off the English Channel.
It was there she saw films like Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Diva,” Luc Besson’s “Le Grand Bleu” and retrospectives on the works of auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard. “God, it all sounds horribly pretentious, but it was a very formative time I spent in Paris and, of course, the Everyman movie theater in Hampstead in London,” she recalls.
Those memories make it all the more exceptional that on May 19, Langley will accept Kering’s Women in Motion honor at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — an event many consider to be the epicenter of the commercial and arthouse film worlds.
Read more on variety.com