The newly baptized Society of Directors and Directors which manages this Cannes section has also appointed a new general delegate at its head, Julien Rejl.
The Directors’ Fortnight, the main unofficial parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival, has renamed itself the “Cinzaine des cinéastes”, wishing to become «plus inclusive»and announced Monday, June 27 to appoint a new general delegate at its head, Julien Rejl.
The Society of Film Directors (SRF), which oversees the event, chose this epicene term and itself decided, during the annual general meeting held on Saturday June 25, to rename itself “Society of directors and filmmakers.
“A fortnight that is getting a makeover”
Julien Rejl, who takes the reins of the Quinzaine des cinéastes, works as a critic for the magazine SoFilm, of which he directed the Festival, and coordinated the writing of several books on cinema. He is also working on a project for the complete films of filmmaker Chantal Akerman. The SRF assured him of his “absolute confidence” in a press release published on the Quinzaine website: “His absolute, communicative, constructed and plural passion is what auteur cinema will need in the years to come”.
He had previously directed the distribution at Capricci for ten years, accompanying filmmakers such as Philippe Garrel, Abel Ferrara, Hong Sang-soo or Tsaï Ming-liang. He replaces the Italian Paolo Moretti, who took office at the end of 2018. “The SRF is showing me today its confidence to implement the project of a fortnight that is getting a facelift. I am very honored and I look forward to meeting the challenges that await us,” he declared on the Quinzaine website.