A Cannes Film Festival employee blocks an interview attempt until Cate Blanchett’s name is spoken, showing how influence can override rigid rules. Cate Blanchett co-founded the Displacement Film Fund with the International Film Festival Rotterdam to champion and fund displaced filmmakers with proven track records in authentic storytelling about displaced people’s experiences. The fund’s grant recipients include Mohammed “Mo” Amer, Annemarie Jacir, Akuol de Mabior, Bao Nguyen, and Rithy Panh. Blanchett later meets with Nguyen and Amer during a festival conversation that connects the fund to their work, including Nguyen’s How to Ride a Bike and Amer’s Return to Sender, which centers on a Palestinian stand-up and refugee facing increasingly senseless immigration restrictions while touring globally.
"We were accompanied by Vietnamese American filmmaker Nguyen, whose film How to Ride a Bike follows a Vietnamese dad who never learned to ride a bike but, after a failed attempt to teach his son to do so, begins learning in secret, and Amer, the Palestinian American comedian, writer, and director behind on Netflix, whose new project Return to Sender follows a Palestinian stand-up and refugee who experiences progressively senseless immigration restrictions while on a global tour."
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