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13-05-2025
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Cannes Opening Night: Festival Workers Briefly Protest Red Carpet, Deadline Shut Down From Filming
This evening's opening night gala in Cannes was briefly interrupted when festival staffers staged a labor protest next to the red carpet. Around a dozen Cannes staffers, covertly stationed next to the red carpet, blew whistles and held red Sous Les Écrans La Dèche placards as the Cannes jury led by Juliette Binoche made their way into the opening night gala. More from Deadline Cannes Film Festival 2025 In Photos: Opening Ceremony, 'Leave One Day' Premiere & Palme d'Or Honoree Robert De Niro Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green & Maria Pedraza To Star In Thriller 'Just Play Dead' - Cannes Market Standing Ovations At Cannes: How We Clock Those Claps, Which Movie Holds The Record & Why The Industry Loves To Hate The Ritual The protest was almost immediately shut off by armed police. We captured footage of the brief demonstration, which you can view below. However, Deadline's journalist was barred from filming the demonstration by a festival official. The official told us on the ground, 'Sometimes you're allowed to film but sometimes not.' Festival workers protest during the #Cannes2025 opening group Sous Les Écrans La Dèche are launching a fresh call to action over what they describe as precarious and unfair working conditions — Deadline (@DEADLINE) May 13, 2025 We broke the news earlier today that Cannes staffers were planning protests at this evening's opening ceremony to raise awareness of their working conditions. The group of protestors is organized under the unofficial union Sous Les Écrans La Dèche, which includes 300 film festival workers from across France, including staff who work on the Cannes Official Selection, the festival's Marché du Film, and parallel sections of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. The group's main objectives are the same as we reported ahead of last year's Cannes Film Festival, during which they executed similar small demonstrations. They want to be included in France's unique unemployment insurance program for entertainment workers and technicians. Known as Intermittence de Spectacle, the scheme supports entertainment workers on short-term contracts with an unemployment benefit when they are between jobs or projects. The payments are funded through taxes paid by employers. Due to quirks in the regulations, many workers at French film festivals have long been excluded from the unemployment benefit. Instead, they are hired and handed flat short-term contracts. The collective is campaigning to be included in the scheme, citing the inherent seasonal nature of the work. The Sous les Écrans la Dèche movement has some high-profile supporters. French filmmaker Justine Triet wore the group's bright red pin on her suit lapel as she walked the red carpet for Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall at Cannes in 2023. This year's Cannes Film Festival jury member Payal Kapadia was wearing the same pin as she debuted All We Imagine as Light on the Croisette in 2024. Cannes opens this evening with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. The festival runs until May 24. Best of Deadline TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far Book-To-Movie Adaptations Coming Out In 2025 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
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13-05-2025
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Cannes Opening Night: Festival Workers Briefly Protest Red Carpet, Deadline Shut Down From Filming
This evening's opening night gala in Cannes was briefly interrupted when festival staffers staged a labor protest next to the red carpet. Around a dozen Cannes staffers, covertly stationed next to the red carpet, blew whistles and held red Sous Les Écrans La Dèche placards as the Cannes jury led by Juliette Binoche made their way into the opening night gala. More from Deadline Matt Rife To Star In Comedy 'The Escort' For 'Wedding Crashers' Director David Dobkin; Upgrade & UTA Launching For Cannes Market Mubi Deep Dive: Founder Efe Cakarel & Content Boss Jason Ropell Lift The Lid On Rapid Growth & Next What Does The Industry Think? Maya Hawke & Rhys Ifans Set For Aisling Walsh's Lucia Joyce Biopic As The Veterans Boards Sales - Cannes The protest was almost immediately shut off by armed police. We captured footage of the brief demonstration, which you can view below. However, Deadline's journalist was barred from filming the demonstration by a festival official. The official told us on the ground, 'Sometimes you're allowed to film but sometimes not.' We broke the news earlier today that Cannes staffers were planning protests at this evening's opening ceremony to raise awareness of their working conditions. The group of protestors is organized under the unofficial union Sous Les Écrans La Dèche, which includes 300 film festival workers from across France, including staff who work on the Cannes Official Selection, the festival's Marché du Film, and parallel sections of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. The group's main objectives are the same as we reported ahead of last year's Cannes Film Festival, during which they executed similar small demonstrations. They want to be included in France's unique unemployment insurance program for entertainment workers and technicians. Known as Intermittence de Spectacle, the scheme supports entertainment workers on short-term contracts with an unemployment benefit when they are between jobs or projects. The payments are funded through taxes paid by employers. Due to quirks in the regulations, many workers at French film festivals have long been excluded from the unemployment benefit. Instead, they are hired and handed flat short-term contracts. The collective is campaigning to be included in the scheme, citing the inherent seasonal nature of the work. The Sous les Écrans la Dèche movement has some high-profile supporters. French filmmaker Justine Triet wore the group's bright red pin on her suit lapel as she walked the red carpet for Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall at Cannes in 2023. This year's Cannes Film Festival jury member Payal Kapadia was wearing the same pin as she debuted All We Imagine as Light on the Croisette in 2024. Cannes opens this evening with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. The festival runs until May 24. Best of Deadline Book-To-Movie Adaptations Coming Out In 2025 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far
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13-05-2025
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Cannes Staffers Urged To Remain Politically Neutral In Pre-Fest Letter From Organizers; Will There Be A Protest From Them Tonight?
EXCLUSIVE: Cannes Film Festival organizers have urged all staffers to remain politically neutral while on the job in a series of guidelines sent out ahead of this evening's opening night gala. The instructions, which were sent to all staff members working on this year's event and have been reviewed by Deadline, list guidelines on social media use and dealing with the press alongside instructions on steering clear of political discussions. News of the updated guidelines come as we learn a selection of Cannes staffers aim to once again mount demonstrations during this year's event, including at tonight's opening ceremony, to raise awareness of their working conditions. More from Deadline Matt Rife To Star In Comedy 'The Escort' For 'Wedding Crashers' Director David Dobkin; Upgrade & UTA Launching For Cannes Market Mubi Deep Dive: Founder Efe Cakarel & Content Boss Jason Ropell Lift The Lid On Rapid Growth & Next What Does The Industry Think? Maya Hawke & Rhys Ifans Set For Aisling Walsh's Lucia Joyce Biopic As The Veterans Boards Sales - Cannes 'Maintain a certain political neutrality in your exchanges with festival-goers,' the instruction read in the pre-festival letter from organizers. We understand the specific note on politics is a new addition to advice traditionally shared with festival staffers. Multiple Cannes staffers we spoke with this morning said the updated staff protocols were indicative of what they described as the festival's beefed-up approach to political protests and demonstrations, particularly around its centerpiece events like this evening's opening ceremony. In a statement to Deadline, the public and privately-backed festival said: 'As in many organizations, team members are asked not to express political opinions when speaking on behalf of the Festival in a professional context. Outside of this framework, everyone is free to hold and express their own beliefs.' Last year, a small collection of staff working across the festival's competition strands did mount a series of modest demonstrations to raise awareness about their working conditions. A rooftop demonstration was held at last year's opening night gala. The group was organized under the unofficial union Sous Les Écrans La Dèche, which includes 300 film festival workers from across France, including staff who work on the Cannes Official Selection, the festival's Marché du Film, and parallel sections of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. We understand the group is in discussion about how to replicate a similar demonstration at this evening's opening ceremony, as last-minute negotiations held this week about their working contracts with the French government and the Cannes Film Festival broke down. The Sous les Écrans la Dèche movement has some high-profile supporters. French filmmaker Justine Triet wore the group's bright red pin on her suit lapel as she walked the red carpet for Palme d'Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall at Cannes in 2023. 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury member Payal Kapadia was wearing the same pin as she debuted All We Imagine As Light on the Croisette in 2024. Cannes opens this evening with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. Juliette Binoche leads the competition jury. The festival runs until May 24. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
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09-05-2025
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Cannes Film Festival Workers Launch Fresh Call To Action Over Precarious Working Conditions
Cannes Film Festival staff are among a collective of French cultural workers who have launched a fresh call to action over what they have described as their precarious and unfair working conditions. In a statement shared today, and available to read in full below, advocacy group Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma (which translates to Under The Screens, The Waste: The Collective of Precarious Workers at Film Festivals), writes that their attempts to gain contractual rights like unemployment and retirement benefits have been 'abruptly blocked.' The group is calling on all French workers to organize and demand action at next week's Cannes Film Festival. More from Deadline Sebastian Stan And Leo Woodall To Star In Justin Kurzel's 'Burning Rainbow Farm' For Rocket Science Sebastian Stan & Leo Woodall Set For Justin Kurzel's 'Burning Rainbow Farm' Cannes Unveils Cinéma De La Plage Line-Up Featuring Terrence Malick's 'A Hidden Life', Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' & Nanni Moretti's 'Palombella Rossa' The group's main objectives are the same as we reported ahead of last year's Cannes Film Festival, during which they executed a series of small demonstrations. They want to be included in France's unique unemployment insurance program for entertainment workers and technicians. Known as Intermittence de Spectacle, the scheme supports entertainment workers on short-term contracts with an unemployment benefit when they are between jobs or projects. The payments are funded through taxes paid by employers. Due to quirks in the regulations, many workers at French film festivals have long been excluded from the unemployment benefit. Instead, they are hired and handed flat short-term contracts. The collective is campaigning to be included in the scheme, citing the inherent seasonal nature of the work. Following last year's Cannes demonstrations and a year of organizing, France's four major unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, and CFTC) and FICAM, which represents the management of France's film festival, drafted a pact to finally include festival workers in the scheme. However, the unions failed to reach a final agreement with UNEDIC, the French government agency that regulates unemployment insurance. 'After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant,' the group writes in their call to action. 'Many of us had eked out a meagre living all year, stretching thin salaries and compensation even thinner, hoping that the predicament was in the process of being solved.' The letter continues: 'Hundreds of us are waiting for the administrative process to be completed. Likewise, dozens of festivals are waiting to be able to offer employees who work for them only intermittently an appropriate job contract. This is a second call to action for all workers. If workers cannot earn a decent living from the jobs they do at festivals, how will the festivals keep going?' Sous Les Écrans La Dèche includes 300 film festival workers from across France, including staff who work on the Cannes Official Selection, the festival's Marché du Film, and parallel sections of Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. The Sous les Écrans la Dèche movement has some high-profile supporters. French filmmaker Justine Triet wore the group's bright red pin on her suit lapel as she walked the red carpet for Palme d'Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall at Cannes in 2023. Payal Kapadia was wearing the same pin as she debuted All We Imagine As Light on the Croisette in 2024. Reall the full Call To Action below: One year ago, we mobilized to obtain better working conditions and, notably, to regain 'intermittent employee' status for thousands of French film-festival workers. We wish we could announce that our voices had been heard. True, the first step towards organizing our branch has been taken. But the 'intermittent employee' status that would entitle us to unemployment and retirement benefits remains out of reach Last year, after the Cannes Film Festival, the Ministries of Culture and Labor and the CNC notified us that our demand for 'intermittent employee' status had been denied. They said that we could obtain the right to this type of job contract only after we drafted an appropriate collective bargaining agreement and submitted it to the government. An official was appointed to expedite matters. He mediated six months of negotiations between festival workers, trade unions, festival organizers, and government agencies. The four major trade unions (the CFDT, CGT, FO, and CFTC) and the management of the festivals, represented by FICAM, applied themselves to drafting an amendment covering 'Film and TV Festivals,' to be appended to the collective bargaining agreement existing for ESCE (Entreprises au Service de la Création et de l'Événement: Services Required for Staging Events and Shows). After 6 months of talks, the amendment was signed in December of 2024 by all of the parties concerned. Management was represented by the FICAM, the SYNPASE, and LEVENEMENT; labor, by the following unions: F3C, CFDT, CGT Spectacle, SPIAC – CGT, SNRT- CGT Audiovisuel, and SNAJ – CFTC. The goals sought by all the parties were to define and structure the film and TV festival sector, and to establish job definitions and pay scales. These specifications would make it possible not only to regulate periods of employment, but also, and especially, to set up unemployment compensation for temporary or 'intermittent' festival workers. A list of the job titles eligible for intermittent status had to be defined. These titles would then be integrated into List 4 of services required for the staging of creations and events (Prestation au service de la création et de l'événement), part of Appendix 8 of French unemployment insurance legislation. Our livelihoods, endangered by 2021 unemployment insurance reforms, would no longer be so precarious. On April 5, 2025, the General Labor Authority approved the branch agreement, with a publication in the legislative record. Throughout the process, we had been assured by unions, management organizations, and government representatives that modifying the list of job titles would merely be an administrative formality. On May 1st, the amendment was therefore extended to all film and TV festivals. At this point, only one hurdle remained. Film and TV festival workers would regain their 'intermittent worker' rights as soon as List 4 of Appendix 8 of the unemployment insurance laws was updated. On April 23, the list of trades was submitted to the UNEDIC, the French government agency that regulates unemployment insurance. However, at this meeting, the parties involved failed to reach an agreement. As a result, festival workers' access to intermittent status was abruptly blocked for the foreseeable future. After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant. Many of us had eked out a meagre living all year, stretching thin salaries and compensation even thinner, hoping that the predicament was in the process of being solved. Hundreds of us are waiting for the administrative process to be completed. Likewise, dozens of festivals are waiting to be able to offer employees who work for them only intermittently an appropriate job contract. This is a second call to action for all workers. If workers cannot earn a decent living from the jobs they do at festivals, how will the festivals keep going? Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Arrive On Peacock? Everything We Know About Celine Song's 'Materialists' So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
