How to understand what the Cannes Film Festival is

Don't know anything about the Cannes Film Festival? The film business can be confusing enough on a local level, but when you add in the Byzantine workings and the oddly named awards and the puzzling organized sections of a French film festival like Cannes, it can get downright baffling.

Watch this video tutorial to at least learn how to fake it until you make it. The Cannes is a film market, the biggest film market in the world, with 20 films in competition. Understand what the Cannes Film Festival is!

There are multiple prize levels, like the Palme D'Or, Grand Prix and Prix Du Jury. The Film Lab at The Substream gives you the low down on everything Cannes.