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What better place to publicize your film than the Cannes Film Festival where the world’s media gathers every May? More than 4,000 journalists and over 2,000 media outlets from 90 countries attend, according to the festival’s website. So making a splash in a creative, silly or tacky way is de rigueur on the Croisette, from the topless starlets of yesteryear like Simone Silva posing without her top in Robert Mitchum’s arms in 1954 (three paps fell over themselves into the ocean to take her picture; one broke his ankle, another his elbow) to Sacha Baron Cohen sporting a lime green mankini at the photocall for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan in 2006, splashing in the waves flanked by a bevy of bikini-clad beauties.

The Spanish presence at the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival goes beyond Pedro Almodóvar and Víctor Erice. They are living legends but a name like Elena Martín Gimeno represents the promise of a future that is already here.

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It was a very emotional Harrison Ford, who received a special tribute at the premiere of the newest sequel of the Indiana Jones films. Ford plays the legendary hero in the James Mangold directed film and climbed the steps of the red carpet at the Palais des Festival alongside co-stars Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Ethann Isidore and Boyd Holbrook.

Pedro Almodóvar’s films are always highly anticipated at the Cannes Film Festival – even when the film is, in fact, a short film being screened out of competition.   The premiere of Pedro Almodóvar latest film, Strange Way of Life, was a highly sought-after ticket.

This week’s “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast episode features Szilvia Gogh, a woman of many talents. Scuba diver and instructor, marine coordinator and water safety officer, stunt double and stunt woman, jewelry designer, cancer survivor, wife and mother.

Involved in the entertainment business since finishing her film degree at USC, Ellen Huang has proved to be one of the most visionary advocates for diversity and inclusion in media. Following work as a development executive and as a founder of the first-ever diversity lounge at the annual Sundance Film Festival, Ellen currently occupies the seat of VP of Diversity at Entertainment One.

This year, French actress Anaïs Demoustier, 35, is President of the Caméra d’Or Jury which attributes the coveted award to the best first feature film presented in one of the Festival’s selections. Born in Lille, France, Demoustier began her career when she was a teenager.

Shahbaz Sarwar had been to the premiere of The Force Awakens (2015) at the Imperial Cinema in Denmark when he got the idea to become part of the Star Wars fan base which makes fan movies. Star Wars fan films have become quite popular among fans and are accepted by Lucasfilm as long as they are not commercial projects.

Irish-born actor Simon Phillips can’t help smiling as he talks about working with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the new Netflix action spy series, FUBAR (launching May 25). “When I was asked to audition and I realized I’d be working with him, I immediately said, ‘I will be there!’” Phillips says.