Cate Blanchett, Afghan, Syrian Creators on Fund for Displaced Directors Backing “Surprising Narratives”

The actress promotes a fund that makes short films by refugee artists. Five of the first filmmakers who received $100,000 to produce their own film

The Cannes Film Festival, more than ever this year, was the place to reaffirm, claim the free creativity of artists, a welcoming place, almost a refuge, taking on a political role in this. (ANSA)

Cate Blanchett, Afghan, Syrian Creators on Fund for Displaced Directors Backing “Surprising Narratives”

"Part of the DNA of the fund in its pilot stage is to sort of reject and challenge the stereotypes and the categorizations that swirl around the discourse about what it means to be displaced," says Blanchett.

CHRONIQUE. American actress Cate Blanchett came to present Friday afternoon The Displacement Film Fund, a project to support displaced or exiled filmmakersThe Cannes Film Festival will once again have proved for 12 days that cinema is performing well artistically, with films coming from all over the world, from Iraq to Chile, through Palestine, Malaysia, Nigeria and Romania. But this diversity cannot hide a sad reality: at the time of wars, the …