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Six years after the creation of the Brand of Female Directors in France, it is during the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, that EROÏN will officially announce the creation of a second structure, based in the Us: EROÏN Us. While one of its heroine, Meryem Benm’Barek, is part of the Un Certain Regard selection with its first feature film “Sofia”, EROÏN will also mark its presence at the 3rd Positive Cinema Week. Organized by the Positive Planet Foundation, chaired by Jacques Attali, this year’s theme is “Women and Cinema”.EROÏN renews its presence at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival for the fourth year in a row, and will formalize the creation of a new company based in the United States: EROÏN Us.The founder, Audrey ClinEt, will speak on Wednesday, May 9 at 10 am on the Cnc beach (Gray d’Albion beach) during a panel entitled “What...

Well, not really but sort of... While researching an article I'm writing, I came across this trenchant passage by critical theorist Frederic Jameson in the foreword to the U.S. edition of Jacques Attali's 1977 music manifesto Noise: The Political Economy of Music: "Not the least challenging challenging of Attali's thought lies in his tough-minded insistence on the ambiguity, or better still, the profound ambivalence, of the new social, economic and organizational possibilities, which he often describes in terms of autosurveillance. From one perspective, autosurveillance marks the penetration of information technology within the body and the psyche of the individual subject: it implies a diffusion of computers on a generalized scale and a...

3D Entertainment and McKinney Underwater Prods. are producing a 3-D documentary with the working title Oceans 3D: Voyage of a Turtle.

The film will be one of the earliest feature-length docus to be lensed digitally for digital-cinema theatrical release.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Mantello and produced by his brother, Francois, Oceans 3D tells the story of Aris the sea turtle who embarks on a journey across the oceans in search of the origin of mysterious, far away calls.

The Mantello brothers are the heads of 3D Entertainment. McKinney's Gavin McKinney serves as director of photography.

Oceans 3D is based on an original script developed by Jacques Attali and written by Pierre Alain de Garrigues and Elisabeth Mantello. It will feature an original score by Christophe Jacquelin.

"We spent over 1,200 hours in the water to capture 200 hours of what we believe is exceptional footage," Francois Mantello said.