“While at the head of the Cannes selection, the Festival has marked the return of American studios on the red carpet, opened the Festival Palace to genre films and animation, a continued openness to exotic cinema, taken risks with films involved, and established the distribution of film-restored classics.”
Biography
Thierry Fremaux (born 29 May 1960 at Tullins-Fure, Isère) is the director of the Institute Lumière in Lyon and the Delegate-General and Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia