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Looking back on the festival’s past ten years, there are quite some exiting, inspirational and funny stories that can be told. But first, let’s start right from the beginning, the founding year 2010, when the idea of Cannes Corporate was born.

Alexander V. Kammel
Festival Director Alexander V. Kammel

By then, the city of Cannes had already been world-famous for feature films and advertising productions. With many years of experience in the corporate film festival industry (mainly in the German speaking countries), we decided to bring corporate films and documentaries into the spotlight on an international basis and the city of Cannes was predestined for this project. It was the perfect match!

Our intention was to provide an international and reputable platform for the best creative works of the corporate film and documentary industry and thus give the films the rightful attention they deserve.

Founding a new festival is like walking on a path whose route is still unknown. Yet, we strongly believed in our vision and started the journey, together with all the participating and believing people that walked with us from the beginning.

With quite a start of 352 submissions from 27 countries, the people’s response was positive, and we knew that it was the right decision to move forward with the festival.

Starting the festivities with an Awards Ceremony, the event grew with the years and became a two-day event including an elegant Welcome Evening and an inspirational Lecture Series that added value for our guests.

During these first years, we experienced heart-warming reactions from winners, became witness to outstanding work that more than deserved to be seen by a broad audience and, how life goes, also experienced some unfortunate things like a heavy storm on the Awards Day in 2015 or a power outage in 2016 (yes, right at the start of the Awards Ceremony).

With more than ten years of existence, the festival has now come of age and became the top festival for corporate films worldwide, welcoming more than 50 participating countries in 2019.

Event Film 2018.

With this Cannes Corporate Blog, we want to stay closer connected with you, present you interesting and current topics, share the latest festival news and thus go along the next stage of our way together with you.

In this sense, take care and see you soon,