Kering, Cannes Festival Tout Women in Motion, Adding Five More Years
PARIS — “We’ve now entered the stage of action,” said Pierre Lescure, president of the Cannes Film Festival. Asked to assess where tensions lie following #MeToo’s sweep through society — the “crises” and “passions,” in his description — Lescure said the industry’s focus now is on putting the promotion of women in cinema into practice. The festival head had just signed on for a five-year extension of the Women in Motion program with Kering, which highlights women’s roles in the industry through talks by figures like Jane Fonda, Rossy de Palma and the late Agnès Varda — who is featured on this year’s poster for the Cannes Film Festival — as well as awards for both doyennes of the field and up-and-coming talent. “It seemed to me to be highly symbolic, highly political, highly ambitious…after five years we had one wish — to renew the partnership,” enthused Lescure, a former journalist and television executive who is well-known in France. He spoke to WWD from an office in the luxury group’s garden-lined headquarters in a joint interview with Valérie Duport, a Kering executive board member who heads communications and image for the group. Initially forged by predecessors — though Lescure recalled the contract signing for the
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