Cannes Private View

Green movie event shows new Leonardo DiCaprio documentary. Forget Cannes and start queuing up for your tickets to the inaugural Can Film Festival. Leonardo DiCaprio’s green documentary 11th Hour is to be shown at three locations, including Glasgow, next month, in a bid to raise awareness about recycling.

Entry to the film is free and on a first come first served basis but viewers are encouraged to bring an empty drinks can along with them for recycling as admission to the screening. James King, Radio 1 film critic and spokesperson for the festival, said:

‘I wanted to get involved in this project as recycling is an important part of our everyday lives and is essential to the upkeep of the environment. We have to raise awareness around this subject to ensure a healthy future for our children.’

As King points out, Britain currently consumes eight billion drinks cans a year. ‘Six to eight weeks after a drinks can is recycled it can be back on the shelf being sold as another drinks can,’ he explains, ‘so a little bit of effort can really go a long way.’

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Dev Anand is the one has come out with his autobiography – Romancing with Life is excited at Cannes invite. Who have dont know about Dev Anand ? Evergreen actor Dev Anand Tuesday said he was happy to be invited to the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival, which is screening his film “Guide” in its ‘Classics’ section.

Dev was born Dharam Pishorimal Anand in Gurdaspur in undivided Punjab to a well-to-do advocate Pishorimal Anand. He graduated in English literature from the Government College, Lahore (now in Pakistan). His love for acting made him leave his hometown for the centre of the Hindi film industry, Mumbai. Dev began his career in the military censor office at Churchgate, Mumbai, for a salary of Rs.

“I have never attended any Cannes fest earlier. So, I am very happy to receive an invitation to attend it. I am indeed more pleased because my Guide is being shown in the ‘Classics’ section, which I understand is a sideshow of the main festival…..“

Dev Anand told IANS.

“I am excited because I will have a chance to interact with film luminaries of the world there..”

the octogenarian actor said. The festival opens in the city of Cannes in France in May.
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