“Bonnie is legendary for her boundless energy on the Crosiette,” AGC Studios head Stuart Ford said of his marketing head Bonnie Voland, whose 40th Cannes Festival was celebrated by Ford and friends…
, whose 40th Cannes Festival was celebrated by Ford and friends at an elegant beachside cocktail on Friday evening.
“How do persuade a grumpy projectionist at the Riviera to get up at 5 am to test screen an AGC promo reel?“How do you get the Cannes authorities to let a boozy AGC beach party run until 3 a.m.?”“How do you coax a Bollywood starlet out of her hotel suite at the Majestic and deliver her to a party in her honor at the other end of Croisette? In 15 minutes?,” Ford asked.“Who would be crazy enough to work for a tyrant like Stuart Ford for 15 years,” Ford asked to rising guest hilarity.
Other guests came on the scene slightly later: such as the stripling Jerome Paillard, Cannes Marché du Film executive director from 1995, now in his last year heading up the Marché du Film; Myriam Arab Rosenblum, who left the Marché a few years ago, and Maud Amson, who replaced her; producer Xavier Marchand; Mike Goodridge, now a producer at Good Chaos, once editor of Screen International; and Ruzanna Kegeyan, who used to head sales at IM Global and is now at Capstone.
“Cannes is a beautiful backdrop for business but it’s really about people: A rich tapestry of friends and acquaintances all over the world reuniting to watch, make, buy, sell and just love movies,” said Ford, catching this mood.
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