Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes and Christian Jeune, Director of the Film Department and Deputy General Delegate, have appointed Stéphanie Lamome as Artistic Advisor of the Film Department. Already a member of the selection committee, which includes eight people, she joins the organising team of the Festival de Cannes, while continuing to officiate for the selection, particularly around young French cinema.

The list of the members of the Festival de Cannes selection committee for 2019 is as follows:

Virginie Apiou
After studying Modern Literature at la Sorbonne, Virginie Apiou became a journalist for the written press. She also directs TV documentaries about cinema (Canal +, Warner, TCM for: Hitchcock - La Mort aux trousses ou Hitchcock – Le Crime était presque parfait, Les acteurs-réalisateurs, etc.) as well as reports for Arte (Max Ophuls, Gabin-Renoir, Abel Gance, David Cronenberg, Abbas Kiarostami, Lars von Trier).

Paul Grandsard
Paul Grandsard, of Franco-American origin, worked as a translator before directing six short films between 1987 and 2006. In 1996, he became a programmer for the Premiers Plans festival in Angers before joining the Festival de Cannes in 1999. Since 2010, he has been a professional photographer, specialising in portrait and architectural photography.

Laurent Jacob
After brief medical studies, Laurent Jacob became a  trainee director and then second assistant to Claude Lelouch, Claude Sautet, Nadine Trintignant, Laurent Heynemann and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He then made montage films on the history of cinema for the Festival de Cannes (Le Cinéma dans les Yeux, Liberté, two series of Préludes). He was in charge of the Cinéfondation selection from 1998 to 2009.

Stéphanie Lamome
After completing a literature foundation course (also known as Khâgne), Stéphanie Lamome, from 1997 to 2015, worked as a journalist, reporter, critic, head of department and then deputy editor-in-chief of Première magazine. She is an on-air programmer for Radio Festival, the official radio of Festival de Cannes, since 2017.

Eric Libiot
From 1986 to 2000, Eric Libiot was a radio host (Radio Beur), TV journalist (Ensemble aujourd'hui), freelance print journalist (7 à Paris, Marianne, Paris Match, Max, L'autre journal), reporter and deputy editor-in-chief of Première. In 2000, he became deputy editor-in-chief of Arts and Entertainment at L'Express magazine and culture editor-in-chief in 2016. That same year, he also became a columnist at France Inter («Grand bien vous fasse» by Ali Rebeihi).

Lucien Logette
Doctor of Comparative Literature, exhibition curator, catalogue director, co-editor of the Larousse mondial du cinéma (2011) and the Dictionnaire mondial des mouvements artistiques et littéraires 1870-2010 (2012), contributor to the Encyclopedia Universalis, 1895 and film columnist for La Quinzaine littéraire (1993-2015), Lucien Logette is now editor-in-chief of the monthly Jeune Cinéma.

Guillemette Odicino
Journalist, critic and head of the cinema department at Télérama.  Since 2016, Guillemette Odicino has been the producer of the summer show «On s'fait des films» at France Inter, where she is also a culture and cinema columnist. She also appears on the program «Le Cercle» on Canal + and Canal + Cinéma.

Marie Sauvion
As a journalist, Marie Sauvion worked for a long time in the culture department of Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France, before taking over as editor-in-chief of the magazine Marie France until 2016. Now freelance, she is a columnist for «Le Cercle» on Canal +, producer on France Inter («Une bonne tasse d’été») and co-author of the documentary Cinéma par... Toledano et Nakache (Canal+, 2018).

Finally, the Festival de Cannes is glad to be supported by a network of correspondents. Among whom : Didier Allouch, Joël Chapron, Isabelle Glachant, Agnès Poirier, José Maria Riba, Yuka Sakano and Ilda Santiago.