Michel Hazanavicius nominated president of the ARP
- The Oscar-winning filmmaker has been nominated president of the French Civil Society of Writers-Directors-Producers (ARP)
One of the French film industry’s most important professional organisations, the Civil Society of Writers-Directors-Producers (ARP) yesterday nominated its new media-savvy president. Michel Hazanavicius, whose last feature The Artist [+see also:
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During this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the ARP called on the European Commission to conduct a thorough review of its Cinema Communication project, calling it a dramatic blow to the sector, as it would greatly weaken tax incentive schemes and automatic grants for production (read the press release). It’s a dynamic debate that will no doubt reemerge at the ARP’s Dijon Film Meetings to be held from October 18 to 20 this year.
(Translated from French)
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