Nice-Matin : special Eco on cinema and Riviera

Hurrah for the cinema and the French Riviera ! During the opening of the 54th Cannes Film Festival, "L'Eco Nice-Matin", edition of Thursday May 10th 2001, dedicates a large part of its eight "salmon" pages to a very complete file about the cinema industry in the region. Many subjects are tackled : the Var, the pioneer, which has created the first film commission; Bernard Brochand, the new mayor of Cannes, who intends to set up a high tech city around space and digital industries; the emerging image industry in the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes; Marseilles which puts the finishing touches to its multimedia ambitions with its Belle de Mai pole, etc. these are, among the some of the subjects that have been tackled, the characteristics of the new dynamism in the South in activity fields such as movie shooting, production and digital technologies. This file is a point of reference and you can consult it on the site nicematin.fr.