6. THE PAVILIONS: WHERE TO MEET & GREET (AND REST YOUR FEET) 
Of course, to pitch and to meet, a newcomer needs to know where the action is in the first place. I recommend spending time at the American Pavilion, the German Pavilion, and the European Pavilion, and take the opportunity to meet other filmmakers, directors, writers, producers and the key international dealmakers who are becoming more and more a force in the independent world.

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For the newcomer, the festival and market atmosphere at Cannes can and often does more resemble a circus than the single most important annual international conflux of major stars, directors, international sales agents, bank executives and film business entrepreneurs. For the experienced Cannes attendee, however, the frenzied environment is more likely to produce an adrenaline rush than an anxiety attack. As a twelve-year veteran of the Riviera confab, I recently collected some of my thoughts and advice for those readers who are experiencing their first Cannes.

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