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New Book about Cannes Film Fest at 80! Camera d’Or Year 24 (2001): “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

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It was the first feature ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.

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New Book about Cannes Film Fest at 80! Camera d’Or Year 24 (2001): “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

It was the first feature ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language.

New Book about Cannes Fest at 80: Camera d’Or Year 23 (2000): Bahman Ghobadi’s “A Time for Drunken Horses”

The movie was a co-winner of the Caméra d’Or award at the 2000 Cannes Film Fest.; the other winning film was Djomeh.

New Book about Cannes Fest–Camera d’Or Year 21 (1998): Marc Levin’s “Slam”

Part gritty prison drama, part inner-city ghetto chronicle, the tale offers a compassionate plea for a new direction for black males if they are to survive oppression in white-dominated society.

Caméra d’Or Year 19 (1996): Shirley Barrett’s Australian Comedy, “Love Serenade”

Shirley Barrett wrote and directed Love Serenade, an Australian comedy, which was peromoted as “the story of two sisters who will do anything to hook the right man.”