Out of 11 selected jurors, 7 are women, which makes it approximately 63 % of the jurors selected from India at the Cannes Lions Festival.

French Senegalese actor Mati Diop has created history, she become the first woman of African descent whose film Atlantics, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, on Thursday. This was the first time that it happened in the festival’s 72 year history.

For the past couple of days, celebs have been making headlines for setting the red carpet on fire at the 2018 Cannes Festival. Deepika Padukone in a ruffled pink gown, or Aishwarya Rai in a dress inspired by the metamorphosis of a butterfly are doing rounds relentlessly. The media, especially in India is busy covering every […]

Eighty-two women of Hollywood, including Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Ava DuVernay and Jane Fonda, took to the Cannes red carpet, protesting the lack of female directors at the festival, reported The Guardian. Only 82 female directors have had their films shown at Cannes since its inception, compared to 1,688 male directors On May 12, eighty-two women […]

As Jessica Chastain completed her time as a jury member at Cannes, she exited by making a statement. Movies have been known to have male leads, and very few female-centric stories. Jessica watched 20 movies in 10 days and said that she found her discovery quite “disturbing”. In a press conference she commented, “The one […]

Director Sofia Coppola was among the big winners at the Cannes Film Festival, 2017. Sofia took home the award for the best director at the festival for her remake of Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of 1971 Western drama –The Beguiled. SOFIA COPPOLA WINS BEST DIRECTOR! She becomes the second female filmmaker in history to win: https://t.co/gZrXQaSAAX […]