Photo and text by Brian Brooks (May 22, 2008)
Almost everyone who makes it to Cannes eventually has dinner at La Pizza near the town's Old Port. It has pretty decent food, can accommodate large crowds and is relatively cheap as far as Cannes restaurants go (not a bad thing with the embarrassing euro/dollar exchange rate these days - thanks Bush!) Anyway, taking advantage of a Cannes tradition was the crowd from
IFC Films (who have been buying up Cannes titles left and right here this year). Filmmakers from three of this year's Cannes titles eating up some yummy pizza here include: "
The Pleasure of Being Robbed," "
Wendy and Lucy," and "
After School." Left side: Jonathan Sehring, Ryan Kampe (Visit Films), Aurelie Godet, Zach Treitz ("Pleasure of Being Robbed"), Submarine's Josh Braun, IFC's Jeff Deutchman and Anish Savjani. Right side: Betsy Rodgers (IFC), Ryan Werner (IFC), "The Pleasure of Being Robbed"'s Eleonore Hendricks , Sam Licenco and Brett Jutkiewicz; Antonio Campos, director of "After School"; IFC's Lizzie Nastro and Neil Kopp, producer of Wendy and Lucy" and "Paranoid Park."