| CANNES:
American filmmaker Martin Scorsese announced the setting up
of the World Cinema Foundation, an organisation dedicated to
the preservation and restoration of important neglected world
cinema films
The
World Cinema Foundation was inspired by the US based Film
Foundation, a similar venture which Scorsese founded with
George Lucas, Stanley Kubrik, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood
in 1990. The World Cinema Foundation has the following international
big names on its advisory board: Germany's Wim Wenders, Mexico's
Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Britain's
Stephen Frears. Additionally, he named the internationally
acclaimed Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami as one of his
counselors in the World Cinema Foundation.
At
this year's edition of Cannes festival, the foundation is
presenting three of its first restored films from Morocco,
Brazil and Romania, dating as far back as 1931.
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