The Cannes Film Festival guide for first-timers

A new guide brings 18 years of experience to first-timers attending the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes Starter Guide works as a short cut for producers, directors, fianciers or writers attending the world's foremost film market.
By: Cannes or Bust
 
 
The Cannes Starter Guide to doing business at the festival
The Cannes Starter Guide to doing business at the festival
CANNES, France - March 20, 2015 - PRLog -- On average, some 20% of people attending trade fairs at Cannes are doing so for the first time. Whether it be for the Cannes Film Festival, MIPTV or Midem, participants are faced with a tough questions about how best to use their budget and get the meetings that will make the trip worthwhile. A new guide published by the editor of Cannes-or-bust.com now provides them with clear answers and a short cut to getting business results from their visit.

The Cannes Starter Guide was written by Cannes veteran Michael Leahy, who has been attending events there since 1997. “I can remember going there the first time and being totally overwhelmed,” he says. “This guide takes a lot of the guesswork out of the process. The goal is to bring people from a seat behind their computer to their first appointment in Cannes.”

All the Cannes events are built around people meeting other people, but first-timers often struggle with the process. Experience shows that many are very ill-prepared, with not enough meetings set up and little idea how to arrange them. The Cannes Starter Guide walks readers through the process by more accurately defining who the likely partners are and how to approach them. “Everybody knows the name of the most important people in their sector,”
notes Leahy. “But there are literally hundreds of other professionals that could be very useful to a visitor’s business. You just have to know where to look for them.”

Another aspect that first-time visitors struggle with is the actual meetings. It could be argued that pitching is an art. But there are simple steps visitors can follow to get their point across – but also notice when a pitch is going wrong and should be curtailed. Needless to say, the Guide also gives clear indications about how to organize accommodation and gives tips about how to get to Cannes from Nice airport for as little as EUR5. Clear steps for following up are also included.

“It is no exaggeration to say that the Cannes Film Festival and MIPTV start
many months before the events in one’s own office,” says Leahy of http://www.cannes-or-bust.com/ . “This guide gives visitors the tools to start it in time.”

The Cannes Starter Guide is available from Amazon in the US (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TCZK19Y), UK, France and Germany (in English).

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