CANNES FESTIVAL MESSAGE TO SAVE THE PLANET MOTTO CLOSES UP WITH ICE AND SKY FILM

USPA NEWS - The Ice and the Sky French film directed by Luc Jacquet was broadcast to splice the Cannes Film Festival today. It is a an hymn to save the planet at the closing film of Cannes : Ice and the Sky. The prestigious Cannes Film Festival decided to mark 2015 commitment against global warming.

Luc Jacquet, director of the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins ("La Marche de l´empereur" ), presents his fourth feature film, Ice and the Sky, as Closing Film of the 68th Festival de Cannes, Sunday, May 24 in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals. In this documentary Luc Jacquet discusses the scientific discoveries of Claude Lorius who left in 1957 to study the Antarctic ice. In 1965 he was the first to be concerned by global warming and its consequences for the planet. Today, aged 82, he continues to look at the future with hope: "I believe that men will still up. Men will find the solidarity that will lead the people living on this planet to another type of behavior." "Cannes is a huge opportunity for this film and for what it says," said Luc Jacquet. "I am pleased and impressed, much like The Fifer from the tales that is welcomed at the palace. Showing this film in the world's largest film festival is contributing to this huge challenge facing humanity as quickly as possible to secure its future and the future of the planet. My language is cinema. In different times, I would have made other films. But I make fierce cinema, political cinema, cinema that has no choice." (...) The Festival de Cannes run May 13-24, 2015. This year the Jury is chaired by Joel and Ethan Coen whom will hand out the prizes to the winners of the Competition before the screening of Luc Jacquet's film.----------------------------------------------------- For more information : www.festival-cannes.com