Top filmmakers align with France's IRIS campaign to nurture the indie sector and ensure diverse genres and voices are represented on screen
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Alberto Rodriguez/2026GG / Michael Buckner / Earl Gibson III Top filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Rebecca Zlotkowski, Jafar Panahi, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Tarik Saleh and Jia Zhang-ke have signed on to take part in the International Resilience Initiative for Independent Screens unveiled Monday during the Lumiere Summit in France.
The French government has launched what has been dubbed IRIS as a bid to bring urgency to the issues facing independently financed films from around the world. It’s part of the larger push reflected by the Lumiere Summit gathering by France to exert influence across the global film marketplace. In addition to the launch of IRIS, the French government is working to establish what it has dubbed “the Lumiere Alliance” of global film commissions. It’s part of the “multilateralism” around the future of film that French President Emmanuel Macron and the nation’s CNC film body have aggressively promoted in recent weeks, culminating with today’s summit.
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