Cannes Film Festival 2023
Client
Film Companion
Project Type
Content Creation (edit)
Year
2023
Overview
In collaboration with NDTV, Film Companion brought its special coverage of the Cannes Film Festival 2023 to audiences in India.
Upper Grove Studio partnered with the Film Companion team to handle post-production and content creation for this daily coverage transforming raw footage from the festival into clear, compelling stories, delivered at speed.
The Challenge
Cannes moves fast. Coverage needs to move faster.
Every day at the festival ended with hours of footage from premieres, red carpets, interviews, and conversations, all of which needed to be shaped into a coherent daily narrative and delivered in time for morning broadcast. The challenge wasn’t just editing, but it was making sense of the day, overnight.
Stories, shaped overnight.
The Approach
At the end of each day, footage from the French Riviera was sent to us. Working through the early hours of the morning, we helped shape the day’s events into structured, broadcast-ready stories.
This involved:
Storyboarding the daily narrative
Creating short, bite-sized segments for easy viewing
Editing a full wrap-up video capturing the essence of the day
The focus was on clarity, rhythm, and pace allowing the coverage to feel informed, immersive, and seamless.
What We Did
Post-Production & Story Shaping
Edited daily wrap-up videos for broadcast
Created short-form stories from long-format footage
Maintained narrative flow across premieres, interviews, and fashion coverage
Social & Partner Content
In addition to daily coverage, we also created select social media reels and promotional assets for Film Companion’s brand partners ensuring consistency across platforms while staying true to the editorial tone.
The Outcome
The coverage went out daily as planned sharp, timely, and cohesive.
Across interviews, premieres, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses, the storytelling helped audiences experience Cannes as it unfolded day by day, story by story.
Credits / Disclaimer
All copyrights to the footage belong solely to Film Companion (Film Companion Studios)
Upper Grove Studio was involved exclusively in post-production and content editing.
Anupama Chopra and Sneha Desai bring you special coverage of the Cannes Film Festival for NDTV, straight from the French Riviera. This video sets into motion on what they're going to bring to us for the next one week from the little French town - Cannes.
Johnny Depp gets a tremendous welcome at the red carpet with his opening film Jeanne Du Barry at the festival. Michael Douglas receives an honorary Palm D'or to his contribution to cinema. Followed by an exclusive interview of Vijay Varma talking about his comeback to the festival after 10 years. He talks about how Bollywood may have finally understood how to fully utilize Vijay as an actor.
Urvashi Rautela talks about her Cartier necklace she wore at the red carpet. Anupama Chopra also spoke to Viola Davis and her experiences she faced in Hollywood as a black actor.
An exclusive interview with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, where she dwells deeper into why Bollywood doesn't offer complex role as that of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan.
A big excitement on day 4 was the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which Harrison Ford will be playing for the last time. Sara Ali Khan talks about her parents and how she has the heart of her mother - Amrita Singh who she shares similar nature towards her brother Ibrahim.
The highlight of day 5 was the premiere of the Martin Scorsese's film - Killers of the Flower Moon. Anurag Kashyap speaks about his film Kennedy being premiered at Cannes and how he auditioned Sunny Leone for the film.
Anupama Chopra talks about her take on Martin Scorsese's film - Killers of the Flower Moon. An exclusive interview with Sunny Leone where she talks about making her Cannes debut, her film Kennedy being premiered and what she is going to wear for the red carpet.
