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The 2021 version of the Cannes Film Festival has been postponed and can now happen in July. In a quick assertion, the competition’s organizers stated that the competition has been pushed by two months as a result of ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The movie competition will now run from July 6 to July 17. Variety had revealed final week that organizers had been taking a look at dates between July 5-25. The occasion is anticipated to happen after Cannes Lions, the promoting and advertising and marketing commerce present, which remains to be on monitor to run from June 21 to June 25.
Variety additional reported that if the July dates don’t work out, then the top of August is being thought-about as a back-up.
“As announced last autumn, the Festival de Cannes reserved the right to change its dates depending on how the global health situation developed,” Cannes stated within the assertion.
The announcement comes after days of hypothesis that the competition is likely to be postponed as circumstances proceed to surge throughout Europe. The 2020 Cannes Film Festival had unveiled an Official Selection however the competition itself was canceled as a result of lethal well being disaster. Last 12 months’s version was cancelled as a result of pandemic and changed by a low-key occasion in October, showcasing quick movies however with out the A-list film stars, administrators and producers.
American movie director Spike Lee, who was named jury president for Cannes in January 2020 however was by no means in a position to serve as a result of occasion’s cancellation, remains to be anticipated to guide the 2021 jury
