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The Cannes Film Festival Is Still Having a Record Breaking Year, Despite Being Cancelled · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The cann International Film
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Speaker 1: Festivals canceled due to COVID nineteen, but the festival has
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Speaker 1: gone forward and released its official selections for and celebration
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Speaker 1: of their creative accomplishments and to still help the film's
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Speaker 1: find distribution, which has always been one of the festival's
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Speaker 1: primary functions. They are typically different categories for the various
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Speaker 1: films chosen, but this year they've decided to just announce
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Speaker 1: all fifty six movies in a single list. And the
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Speaker 1: unique situation isn't the only reason these movies are making history.
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Speaker 1: There's also a record breaking number of female lead and
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Speaker 1: first time director films. Among the honorees are new films
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Speaker 1: by Wes Anderson, Vigo Mortenson's directorial debut, and Ammonite starring
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Speaker 1: Kate Winslett. On arth Ryan dot com for more that's
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