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Originally Posted by ffolkes
he's doing both, actually.
his job is to buy movierights for a film distributor that he works for. i've heard that deals can go up to several hundreds of thousands of euros... the bidding gets quite crazy. the bigger the movie is (buzzwise) the higher the price naturally.
other than that he sees as much movies as possible during the festival, approximately six-seven per day. the company he works for focuses mostly on independent art-house films, so he sees a lot of stuff i've never even read about. it's quite taxing from what i've heard (tons of movies to see every day + tons of drinking in different parties) but he's not complaining... only worried that his liver will pop some day due to too much drinking, which seems to be mandatory there.
and when he's off from cannes there's other festivals to catch later on like milan, berlin, toronto etc. the bastard! 
p.s. i'll try to see arrested development a bit better some day if i can. |
That sounds like an amazing job. I would like to do something like that even for a year.
Via a friend of a friend, I knew someone who did a similar job in the mid 90s for Miramax, around 95-96. What was funny to hear him say was that you'd think it would be a great job, but it can really become an endurance test as you want give the fifth film the same shot you did for the first film you saw 15 hours earlier that day. Plus in writing up little reports about each film, he'd then have to prove he was at attention and not bullshitting his way through the reports.
So yeah, sign me up, tell your brother you've got a prospective trainee that his company needs to hire for the other festivals that are large enough but due to time constraints your brother cannot attend. Think he'd go for it?