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Cannes || BY Brian Brooks || 04 30 2012 10:00 AM

Cannes Adds 7 to 2012 Lineup

Cannes Adds 7 to 2012 Lineup

The upcoming Cannes Film Festival added additional titles to its Official Selection Monday, including American title Gimme The Loot which screened last week at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Today's additions join the 22 other films in the official selection and 16 in the event's Un Certain Regard section as well as the previously announced Critics Week lineup. Additionally, the fest said the montage film Final Cut - Hölgyeim És Uraim by György Pálfi (Hungary), produced by Béla Tarr, which will close Cannes Classics on Saturday, May 25.
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Festival Coverage || BY Jen Yamato || 03 14 2012 8:00 AM

Graffiti Drama Gimme the Loot, Rock Doc Beware of Mr. Baker Take Top SXSW Honors

Gimme the Loot

Tuesday night the 2012 SXSW Film Festival jury awards went to Adam Leon's NYC-set drama Gimme the Loot and the rock doc-biopic Beware of Mr. Baker, about Cream/Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker. Meanwhile, Audience Awards honored Megan Griffiths' Eden, whose star Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch) earned a Special Jury Award for her central performance as a human trafficking victim, and to documentary Bay of All Saints, about three single mothers living in an impoverished Brazilian bayside town. Full list of winners after the jump.
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