The list of conferences scheduled this year on the Croisette continues to shrink like a panic. After MipTV and Mipim, organizer Reed Midem announced on Monday that Midem 2020, devoted to music, was also canceled due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Logical, given the context.
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"Given the uncertainty surrounding the evolution of the virus and the concerns of companies regarding the safety of their staff, it is not possible to hold the Midem", which was scheduled from June 2 to 5 at the Palais des Festivals Cannes, said Alexandre Deniot, the director of the event which brings together between 4,000 and 5,000 professionals.
Instead, an internet lounge
Instead, the congress will be open to its participants on the Internet. And it will offer "keynotes, conferences and live presentations, as well as possibilities for exchanges and speed-meetings", indicates the organizer who is meeting in Cannes for the next edition, from 1st to 4th June 2021.
Meanwhile, the Cannes Film Festival vows to continue working on a postponement of its 2020 edition to "late June, early July". "When the decision to cancel its holding in May was envisaged, the professionals of the sector asked us not to give up organizing it", assure the organizers of the high mass of the cinema.
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