Cannes Film Festival 2013

Tom Erisman, NSC, is a Dutch cinematographer who received his cinema training during his work as a gaffer between 1976 and 1987. After his shift to filming, he was behind the photography on a number of television series and films in the Netherlands. Amongst the directors with whom he has worked is Alex Van Warmerdam, with whom he worked in the past on The Northerners in 1992 (2^nd unit) and more recently on The Last Days of Emma Blank in 2009. Borgman is his latest film. (FR).

The three-time Oscar nominee (Amélie Poulain,A Very Long Engagement and the sixth Harry Potter movie), Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC, recently filmed Dark Shadows, by Tim Burton and Faust by Alexander Skouras. Joel et Ethan Coen called on him to visually recreate 1960’s New York for the set of Inside Llewyn Davis

Above all, the AFC is represented at the 66^th Cannes Film Festival by the films in the Official Selection and the parallel selections that were filmed by its members. Our associate members are represented by the various ways that they have each individually contributed to the making of these films.

Less than a month before the beginning of the festivities, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the 66^th Official Selection through its President, Gilles Jacob, and Thierry Frémaux, Managing Director, at the usual press conference. Before the release of the announcement of the films chosen by the parallel sections, there are already 11 AFC member directors of photography who were responsible for the cinematography of 12 films in the selection.

Although the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection included not less than 12 films whose directors of photography are AFC members (11 exactly), the parallel sections, meaning the Directors’ Fortnight and the International Critics’ Week, have been, a s far as we can tell, less generous towards our members...