http://articles.petravillas.com en-us info@petravillas.com   PUBLIC and private sector representatives are heading to the French Riviera for an annual property convention in defiance of the credit crunch. Location Leeds will be flying the flag for the city at MIPIM 2009, the international property and investment trade show at Cannes this March. Members of Location Leeds said they would use the four-day event in France to showcase plans for the £80m. Leeds Arena to an audience of property professionals from around the world. A spokeswoman for http://articles.petravillas.com/leeds-to-fly-the-flag-on-french-riviera_23.html 17-02-2009 By Rasha SaltiMuch is made of 'first time' experiences in life, but nothing in my good and bad education, or professional experience, prepared me for my first time at the Cannes Film Festival.The emotional charge was furthermore doubled, tripled, even quadrupled because the first screening I planned to attend in the theater reserved for the Official Selection Un Certain regard section, was a dearly beloved's first feature film - Annemarie Jacir's Salt of this Sea - and the dearly beloved is Pale http://articles.petravillas.com/female-palestinian-filmmaker-shines-at-cannes-festival_22.html 18-11-2008 By Rodney ChesterSTEVE McQueen remembers three things about 1981: the Brixton riots, Tottenham winning the FA Cup, and seeing the same man every night on the nine o'clock news."All I can remember is this photograph of Bobby Sands on TV with a number underneath his name," the filmmaker says.At first he thought the numbers referred to the man's age, but when they kept changing he realised they indicated the number of days the man had been on hunger strike."At 11 years old, the idea that someone wh http://articles.petravillas.com/director-steve-mcqueen-on-prizewinning-film-hunger_21.html 13-11-2008 By Tom BrookKill Bill and Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino speaks of his relief at finishing the screenplay for his latest film project, a "modern, in-your-face" World War II epic.Tarantino, who was at an independent film festival in the US, confirmed he has now finished the screenplay for Inglorious Bastards - his long-awaited new film - and he maintains he is moving into pre-production right away. He was speaking at the Provincetown Film Festival - where he received a special Filmmaker http://articles.petravillas.com/tarantino-relief-at-finishing-project_11.html 01-11-2008 Barnet have signed former AS Cannes defender Jeremy de Magalhaes.The 24-year-old central defender played in the 2-0 pre-season friendly defeat by Leeds United at Underhill, following his release by Cannes this summer.The Frenchman, who previously played for Stade Laval, had originally turned down a contract offer from the Bees.Mewnwhile, De Magalhaes' compatriot Francis Laurent, 22, will not be offered a contract after a week-long trial with the North London club.Source: BBC http://articles.petravillas.com/barnet-swoop-for-french-defender_10.html 01-11-2008 The Class, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Festival, has been named as France's official entry for the 2009 foreign language film Oscar.Directed by Laurent Cantet, the film depicts a year at a tough Paris school, featuring real students and teachers.Titled Entre les murs in France, it will receive a gala screening at the London Film Festival next month.France is one of several countries to unveil their foreign film submissions in the run-up to next year's Oscars.Earlier this week http://articles.petravillas.com/cannes-winner-submitted-for-oscar_9.html 01-11-2008 By Karen McLauchlanTHERE are several remarkable features to the movie HUNGER, over and above the fact that it won the Camera DOr at The Cannes Film Festival this year and top prize at the Sydney Film Festival.It lasts for only 95 minutes yet it is half an hour before the primary subject of the movie, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, makes an appearance.Thereafter, what is possibly the longest single, unbroken scene in a movie takes place between Sands and his priest, played by Liam Cunningham. Se http://articles.petravillas.com/coming-soon-hunger_8.html 01-11-2008 By Bill LumleyThe Declaration of Cannes was presented as a key step to stamping out luxury goods counterfeitingThe Tax Free World Association (TFWA) played host to the signing of the Declaration of Cannes, an agreement between nine countries to help tackle the global $700bn counterfeit luxury goods industry signed at this year's editiion of the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes. The declaration signals an agreement between nine countriesFrance, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Mo http://articles.petravillas.com/multicountry-anticounterfeit-declaration-signed-in-cannes_7.html 01-11-2008 The world's largest and most prestigious creative advertising awards event, the Cannes Lions International Festival, has appointed the Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) as its local representative for the 2009/2010 ceremonies.The AAG, by this appointment, becomes the third festival representative to be officially appointed on the African continent, after South Africa and Nigeria, and the first in Ghana.The appointment also places Ghana at a strategic position on the global advertising front http://articles.petravillas.com/aag-to-represent-cannes-lions-international_6.html 01-11-2008 Terence Davies's first film in eight years is a beauty. Created for just £250,000 as part of a celebration of Liverpool's year as European City of Culture (don't stop reading!) this mini screen symphony was the surprise toast of this year's Cannes Festival.A truly exquisite blend of heart-tuggingly personal reminiscence and hilariously barbed wit, it's essentially a conflicted love letter from Davies to his home town.Visually, it's gorgeous. We see yesterday's housewives wringing out laundry, Li http://articles.petravillas.com/of-time-and-the-city-is-a-beauty_5.html 01-11-2008