Cannes has Certain Regard for jury
Participant registration for festival up 8%
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Two journos -- India's Anupama Chopra and Russia's Catherine Mtsitouridze -- plus Egyptian critic Yasser Moheb and Jose Maria Prado, director of the Spanish Filmotheque, will join German director Fatih Akin ("The Edge of Heaven") on the jury of Un Certain Regard.
Akin will serve as jury president for a section driven this year by relatively unknown talent.
Meanwhile, the Cannes Marche du Film announced that by April 17, participant registration was up 8% on same time last year, with more than 8,042 film professionals signed up.
Registration still has some way to go: 2007 clocked in at 10,489. But the 8% uptick continues a 40% rise in Marche du Film attendance since 2003.
Several factors are in play, said Marche du Film director Jerome Paillard.
"There's roughly the same number of sales companies and distributors as last year. The growth is in producer attendance. More and more films are co-produced. It's increasingly essential for producers to finance their films from resources worldwide," he said.
Emerging film industries in Latin America -- Chile and Uruguay, for instance -- were leading attendance growth, Paillard said.
That can be put down to rising Latin American production levels, regional producers' interest in co-production and governments' efforts to aid their attendance at Cannes.
"Two years ago, hardly any Chilean producers attended Cannes. Last year, Chile brought a delegation," Paillard said.
