Last year, 3 formers guys from Publicis Paris launched le salon du cinema (Gad Abitbol, Jonathan Bryant and Moïse Kissous). Their idea was simple: make an event creating contacts, chats and demos between aficionados and professionals. Make-up artists, actors, cameramen, producers, horses and lions tamers, costumers, acrobats and stuntmen, screenwriters, marketers, editors: the whole world of the cinema is there. Quite surprisingly, it had never been done before!
2007's edition was a success: 70.000 visitors and the presence of Nils Tavernier, Benoit Magimel, Claude Chabrol, Michaël Youn, Alain Chabat, Guillaume Canet, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and even Olivier Mathiot ;-).
Have a look to their site and watch the 5 mn trailer; it's worth.
2008's edition is sponsored by Jean-Jacques Annaud and is honoured by the visit of Christine Albanel, the French culture minister. It opens at Paris Porte de Versailles, hall 6, from Friday January the 18th till Sunday the 20th.
I am sincerely amazed by the size and the quality of the event Gad, Jonathan and Moïse have created. I am always happy when I see such moves: former wage-earners becoming entrepreneurs and succeeding. Bravo!
Gad, Jonathan, Moïse, next year in Berlin, London or… L.A. ?
Last thing (really important): HarryPotter's Owl salutes you!
