{"id":679,"date":"2012-06-27T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-07-22T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:14:48","slug":"richie-cannes-film-festival-europe-and-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2012\/06\/27\/richie-cannes-film-festival-europe-and-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Richie: Cannes Film Festival, Europe, and Colombia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I hope everyone\u2019s summer has been going great! For those of you just graduating high school, congratulations! If you haven\u2019t done our Summer Orientation<\/a> at BU yet, I promise it\u2019s such an awesome experience.\u00a0 Some of my closest friends today, I actually met during my BU Summer Orientation<\/a>.\u00a0 Enjoy your last few weeks at home, and get excited to finally be at COM in the Fall!<\/p>\n

I personally have to say, I\u2019ve had the best summer of my entire life so far. A few months ago I wrote about being accepted into an internship program at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 I was unbelievably excited to start working at the Film Festival in May, but I never expected all the amazing things I would be a part of.<\/p>\n

I arrived to the beautiful tropical town of Cannes on May 14th. I had been in Paris for a few days before with my brother and thought most of France would look just like Paris. Obviously, I was surprised when I arrived to beautiful beaches lined with palm trees!\u00a0 The program I had received my internship through, Creative Minds<\/a>, was also hosting about 150 other students. I quickly became friends with student from Texas, California, China, Mexico, and even The Netherlands!<\/p>\n

Some had come with the networking aspect of the program where they partook in dozens of workshops with industry professionals like Randall Emmett<\/a>.\u00a0 Others came with the filmmaker aspect, and were put in teams to create a short film while at the film festival.\u00a0 I was a part of the internship experience and was placed with WME<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of the internships at the film festival have the students work every other day, and sometimes only up to 8 days. Whereas, WME is a very sought after internship, I was working every single day from May 16th to May 27th.\u00a0 My days would usually start around 9:30am and could sometimes even last until 10pm! While the work was tough at times, WME was an incredible agency to work for.\u00a0 I learned an incredible amount of the industry on the talent agency side and was treated very well by all the agents I helped.\u00a0 My duties were mostly errands and any odd job an agent might need for us to do, but they never hesitated to answer our specific industry questions and give us great insight to the world of film.<\/p>\n

While I did miss some screenings of films during the day, I still managed to make it to a number of Red Carpet Premieres and other exclusive screenings! My favorite two films would have to be Moonrise Kingdom<\/a>, Wes Anderson\u2019s new film that premiered on the opening night, and Beasts of The Southern Wild<\/a>, an American Indie film that won this year\u2019s Grand Jury Prize for dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival<\/a>! Just with every festival, you\u2019re bound to see a few films that you quite honestly won\u2019t enjoy. Yet, I must say Cannes offers an array of all types of films and Beasts has to be one of my favorite films of all time now.<\/p>\n

The film festival is also known for some of the craziest and most exclusive parties in the world! While I mentioned I wouldn\u2019t get out of my internship until around 9pm on some days, the night hadn\u2019t even started!\u00a0 I found myself out until 4 and 5 in the morning almost every single night.\u00a0 Different parties hosted the likes of Swedish House Mafia, Busta Rhymes, David Guetta, and many more.\u00a0 A memory that\u2019ll definitely stick out in my head is going to the very exclusive premiere of Cruel Summer<\/a>, Kanye West\u2019s short film!\u00a0 The film was shown on seven huge screens and all shot with multiple cameras to immerse the audience in all the action.\u00a0 Afterwards I even shook Kanye\u2019s hand and was able to speak to him for a few minutes on his film! Jay Z and Kim Kardashian were in attendence, and afterward the protagonist of Kanye\u2019s film, Kid Cudi, even performed!<\/p>\n

I could go on about Cannes but also want to let you guys know how amazing my traveling in Europe was! I had never been to Europe before the Film Festival, and obviously wanted to do a bit of traveling while I was there. As soon as the Film Festival ended, I took a train over to Nice for a night. I stayed at an amazing hostel where I instantly made friends from all over the place! (Traveling through Europe and staying at hostels is highly recommended, definitely the cheapest, funnest, and easiest way to meet plenty of young people with amazing personalities and awesome travel stories! Definitely go through www.hostelworld.com<\/a>!) I then traveled to Pisa, Florence, Rome, and took a flight back to Paris to be with my older brother.\u00a0 It was a great experience, and traveling alone definitely opens you up to making friends a lot easier! I made one last weekend trip to London and then prepared to leave Europe after about 5 weeks!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a very eventful summer and right now I\u2019m winding down and spending some family time in Colombia.\u00a0 It\u2019s been about five years since my last visit and I have to say I alway love coming back.<\/p>\n

If any of you are interested in the Cannes Film Festival Program, I highly recommend it. I\u2019m actually going to be recruiting new students for next year\u2019s program and would love to answer even more specific questions on how to get in! It\u2019s the experience of a lifetime and looks incredible on a resume no matter what field you want to get into after college!\u00a0 Send me and email at rduque@bu.edu<\/a> or message me on facebook by just searching my name!<\/p>\n

Next post I\u2019ll catch you guys up on the pre-production of my new short film being shot here in Boston during the fall! Can\u2019t wait to meet you all in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope everyone\u2019s summer has been going great! For those of you just graduating high school, congratulations! If you haven\u2019t done our Summer Orientation at BU yet, I promise it\u2019s such an awesome experience.\u00a0 Some of my closest friends today, I actually met during my BU Summer Orientation.\u00a0 Enjoy your last few weeks at home, … Continue reading Richie: Cannes Film Festival, Europe, and Colombia!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4057,7285],"tags":[7491,600,198,11758,11757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}