The Cognac organisers, undeterred by the fact that whisky rather than cognac is the usual tipple of screen heroes and villains, invented the world's first thriller film festival to market the drink and the town that shares its name.
The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington, which receives its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Sunday.
It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the front-runners for best foreign language film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
The film, directed by first time feature-maker John Krokidas, had its world premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
The film, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, was a surprise hit of the Cannes Film Festival and has since gathered accolades around the world.
Scott revealed plans to play the world-renowned poet during a Daily Telegraph interview at the Venice Film Festival.
She has distributed Palm Treos and Nokia Lunas at events like the Venice Film Festival and the World Music Awards.
She has distributed Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treos and Nokia Lunas at events like the Venice Film Festival and the World Music Awards.
And rather than making a brief stop in a different port each day, The World will follow a more leisurely itinerary, visiting Cannes for the film festival, cruising down to Rio for the carnival and so on.
The event, which is part of the East End Film Festival, will also screen archive footage of street parties from the end of World War I to the present.
The movie, which opens the New York Film Festival and will be released on October 1st, will be the introduction that much of the world gets to Zuckerberg.
In "Escape From Tomorrow, " the most buzzed-about movie out of this year's Sundance Film Festival, director Randall Moore presents Disney World as a dystopian hellscape and uses it as the backdrop for a descent into madness.
Ms Thuillier points out that the Berlin festival is still the third biggest film marketplace in the world.
The "Nora" will be awarded annually to a female film-maker whose film receives its North American, international or world premiere at the festival.
Mr. PETER STEIN (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival): There's a sense that Jewish life throughout the world is under siege, Israel as a nation is under siege, but what is really remarkable about Jewish culture is the insistence on self-questioning.
Started in 1985 in the ski-resort of Park City, Utah by actor Robert Redford, this year it has 57 world premieres and half of all the films in competition are made by women - a first for any film festival.
No British films have been selected in the official competition though several debut filmmakers are being featured in other festival strands, such as the Cinefondation, which selects pieces made by film students from across the world.
Jurors said the film, which picked up the best first feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, "offers us a transcendent tale of hope and perseverance in a world that few Westerners ever have the chance to see".
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