With just two weeks left until this year’s Cannes Film Festival in France, festival officials plan protests and strikes that threaten celebrity red carpet events and the premieres of several highly anticipated films. It is reported that he is doing so.
According to Deadline, as many as 200 French film festival officials, including those involved with the festival and others from across France, are planning to protest at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. report. France has trade unions in every conceivable profession, no matter how niche, so these protests are a result of the union representing film festival workers, Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Organized by Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma.
Protesters plan to demonstrate on the Croisette, the city’s main thoroughfare, during the 12-day Cannes Film Festival, which opens on May 14, anonymous sources told Deadline. . They will also have a presence at sidebar events such as Directors’ Fortnight and the opening ceremony of La Semaine de la Critique.
Workers are reportedly angry about their compensation, saying they are not being paid a living wage, especially considering the long hours they have to work. They are also frustrated that they are not eligible for France’s unemployment insurance program for entertainment workers and technicians.
The world premiere will be held at Cannes this year. FuriosaThe first part of Mad Max Fury Road. The festival will also host the highly anticipated premiere of director Francis Ford Coppola. megalopolis and Kevin Costner’s epic western Horizon: American Saga.
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