SAGindie once again brought our je ne sais quoi to the French Riviera as sponsors of The American Pavilion at the 2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (held this year from May 13 – 24), where we provided career advice and insight to the attending film students.
Thanks to all the industry pros who turned out to speak at our SAGindie Roundtables: Kendall Anlian (The Coven), Teresa Arundel (DDA), Gordon Bobb (Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang), Tiffany Boyle (Ramo Law PC), Ernest Dickerson (Juice, Double Play), Theo Dumont (HollyShorts Film Festival), Sola Fasehun (The Distribution Collective), Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard, Bob Marley: One Love), Aaron Hillis (Bleecker Street Media), Jason Ishikawa (Cinetic Media), Peter Kuplowsky (Toronto International Film Festival), Jacqueline Lyanga (Berlin International Film Festival), Kyle Marvin (The Climb, Splitsville), Stephanie Pfingsten (Lumos PR), Adam Piron (Sundance Institute), Yolonda Ross (The Get Down, The Chi), and Jeff Sharp and Colin Whitlow (The Gotham Film & Media Institute).
SAGindie’s Executive Director, Darrien Michele Gipson, was also the moderator of a conversation with Spike Lee (there to premiere his newest film, Highest 2 Lowest) and participated in panels with Stage 32, AfroCannes, and the Diversity & Inclusion Film Festival. It was another eventful Cannes for the books!
See the full list of 2025 Cannes Awards winners below.
2025 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners
Feature Films
- Palme d’Or: Un Simple Accident
- Grand Prix: Sentimental Value
- Jury Prize: Sirât and Sound of Falling
- Special Award: Resurrection
- Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
- Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Jeunes Mères
- Best Actress: Nadia Melliti, La Petite Dernière
- Best Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Short Films
- Palme d’Or – Short Film: I’m Glad You’re Dead Now
- Short Film Special Mention: Ali
Un Certain Regard
- Prize of Un Certain Regard: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
- Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: A Poet
- Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Director: Arab & Tarzan Nasser, Once Upon a Time in Gaza
- Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Actress: Cleo Diára, I Only Rest in the Storm
- Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Actor: Frank Dillane, Urchin
- Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Screenplay: Harry Lighton, Pillion
Golden Camera Award (For Best First Feature)
- Caméra d’Or: The President’s Cake
- Caméra d’Or Special Mention: My Father’s Shadow
La Cinef (Cinéfondation)
- 1st Prize: First Summer
- 2nd Prize: 12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony
- 3rd Prize: Ginger Boy and Winter in March (TIE)
Congrats to this year’s winners!
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