While feature-length films, as always, occupy center stage at Cannes - - opening night jeers for Miramax's My Blueberry Nights, expected woo-hoos next week for Brad Pitt's red carpet prowl on behalf of Ocean's Thirteen- - short films get their due this year at the festival's Short Film Corner. The site is managed by Withoutabox, which counts about 110,000 filmmakers in 200 countries as members.
Besides running the "Corner" comment boards and review entries, Box did what companies are supposed to do at the French schmooze-o-rama - - it cut deal. Announced today, the company is partnering with British distributor Andy Whittaker, who's edgy oeuvre includds Penelope Cruz's “Don’t Move (pictured), Hungarian holocaust film *Fateless * and Man Push Cart.
Whittaker also launched Digital Screen Network, the U.K. digital cinema initiative.
