 Hi folks, I am at Cannes Film Festival to be part of the Producers Network. To learn, make new contacts, pitch my new projects to the potential investors and find us co-producers. Wish me luck! My journey to the Cannes and this blog comes now to an end. Thanks everybody for following and supporting me. Hope you enjoyed reading my blog and till next time. Love, Nafiss
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 Hi folks, I am at Cannes Film Festival to be part of the Producers Network. To learn, make new contacts, pitch my new projects to the potential investors and find us co-producers. Wish me luck!  It's time to say goodbye to the Festival the Cannes and Marché du Film. It was a wonderful journey; very educational, fruitful and fascinating. There are of course some people who come here, never leave their office or just go to the parties. The considerate it as a fun happening, specially when the boss pays the bills. But there are so much occasions and opportunities to learn from. These days were like a intensive study for me. I have learnd a lot. About film making, presenting films, and how to get to know the world by its filmmakers. It cost a bit to go to such a festival but I can tell you it worth every penny. So as soon as I get home, I begin saving for the next year like I did last year. This year there were great Iranian filmmakers at the festival such as Asghar Farhadi and the talented actress Golshifteh Farahani. I didn't get a chance to meet Farhadi, my classmate from long time ago when I began filmmaking at the Society of Young Cineasts in Isfahan, because he arrived on the day that I left. But I could see Golshifteh twice. She played in the new film of Jim Jarmusch 'Paterson'. She was marvelous and did a great job. Tomorrow I will put all my pictures in my last blog on Cannes. Here some pictures of Golshifteh Farahani.  Hi folks, I am at Cannes Film Festival to be part of the Producers Network. To learn, make new contacts, pitch my new projects to the potential investors and find us co-producers. Wish me luck! While learning about the business of producing, I'll get to know the different ways of handeling the business as well, also how everybody generally or individually operates. It is so fascinating to watch people in a big room while everybody is busy with selling their stories. I make a personal observation about the people I met or talk to the last days. Please be open and feel free to comment on that.  My favorite people were the Scandinavian and the ones from India. They are really modest, kind, deep and they seem very genuine. When you talk to one you immediately know he knows what he is doing. My most fascinating conversations in Cannes were with the nice inhabitants of Scandinavia or India. During the last view days and also my visit on Cannes last year, I noticed that mostly the filmmakers from West European countries, Australia, Canada and far Asia are generally hidden egos. They seem modest, but they think they are the most talented people on the earth and they have every right to be where ever they are and do what ever they want. On the other hand there are the Americans, Russians, Africans, Arabs and Iranians. They are open egos. They are loud and brag about every small videoclip that they ever made and present themselves like they own the universe. The South Americans, East Europeans and people from New Zealand are in between. They are modest when it suits them and brag when it comes handy. As far as myself goes, I think I'm also in between. But more like I've got two personalities; when my Iranian background comes alive I can be loud too, but when my Dutch character appears I am more of a hidden ego. What do you think?  Hi folks, I am at Cannes Film Festival to be part of the Producers Network. To learn, make new contacts, pitch my new projects to the potential investors and find us co-producers. Wish me luck!  Everyday at Cannes film festival is a real treat, meeting people, knowing about new beautiful film projects, learning about new ways, new chances and new opportunities and of course learning about each other's struggle and hearing about the solutions. But today was a very special day, very dear day to me. I attended to a whole day seminar with five different panels regarding the films about and from refugees with the title: "Refugee voices in film". The day was mainly organized by UNHCR, LEFTA & Marché du Film. I saw many initiatives, many titles coming by and many people who are telling the stories of refugees through cinema! It was amazing, wonderful, most of the times very heartbreaking, but even sometimes funny. Dance Iranian Style would be totally fit between these films, but being still not very known in the Dutch film scene and being totally unknown in the France film scene, made our participation impossible. But I tried my best to introduce our film to the different members of the panel. I hope it will be fruitful for us. Aside being among these wonderful people who work passionately to give the refugees a voice, the whole day was very educational and very fascinating. I hope we could have such a positive and instructive seminars in the Netherlands. The message all of the guests (being refugee themselves or very active involved with refugees) was: the humanity must stay with humanity. The problem of refugees is not their problem, but it is a global problem. We all should contribute to solve this problem with humanity and compassion.
 Hi folks, I am at Cannes Film Festival to be part of the Producers Network. To learn, make new contacts, pitch my new projects to the potential investors and find us co-producers. Wish me luck! This is how our breakfast table looks like every day we arrive at the breakfast meetings of Producers Network.  Being part of Producers Network makes me realize how many people same like me trying hard to persuade their dream in de film world. What I see is just a small group. There are more! Much more than we can imagine. And that's just in the film world. If we count all the people from all kind of art disciplines, we can easily say that there are millions. It makes me happy and scared at the same time. Happy to see so much passion for the filmmaking. And scared because it makes me a very very small part of this huge industry. The industry that can make or brake you in one second.  |
