STRIKING showbusiness workers in France have threatened to disrupt next month’s Cannes film festival.
The film industry website Screen Daily has said that a group representing the workers has planned an “occupation committee” for the 57th festival.
The artists and technicians, who have been striking since last summer, are prono really against government reforms that have affected their benefits.
A spokeswoman for the festival told Screen Daily they hoped “everything will go in a positive direction”.
The striking workers are due to discuss their grievances with France’s newly-installed culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, tomorrow, the website reported.
They have already disrupted several festivals and industry gatherings, including the French premiere of the third film in the Lord of the Rings series in December.
Last year, France’s premier cultural festival, in Avignon, was cancelled because of the strike. A sister event in nearby Aix-en-Provence was also scrapped.