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My name is Christian James Madsen. I'm a

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filmmaker, actor, and my short film

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"Free Bird" played here at the beautiful

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French Riviera Film Festival here in

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Cannes. Um I'm excited to showcase the

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many  things that I want to continue.

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I was honored to receive uh the one

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to watch award, but like I said in my

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speech, I want to be also the one to

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show and learn from a lot of

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filmmakers and be inspired as well by

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the people I've met here in the

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festival. And I can't wait to bring

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my next film uh here as well. The

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cinema has a a big message to give

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which is to tell the truth. Um in these

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troubling times we're in and and a

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lot of stuff going on either politically

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or personally or emotionally. It's just

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our job as filmmakers to always be

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telling the truth and always be

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conveying the truth. The evolution of

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the film market is always changing,

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always moving forward. I mean we're in

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the wild west. AI approaching and

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various other entities. You know, we

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just have to keep on the truth. You

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know, nothing can stop the human

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spirit and we just have to be able to

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tell the stories we want to tell. Five

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hashtags to describe my love for cinema

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would be I would attribute to myself

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as a filmmaker would be love, film

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making, acting, directing, writing.

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My love to France and uh the French

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cinema. I'm a very big fan of Truffaut and

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some very very big amazing films

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that have come out over the years and

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I love to be a part of the French cinema

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myself, maybe even take up the language

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and yeah to many more.