have a huge impact at the time, but it didn't really change anything. As much as it outraged people and made people aware, not a lot changed, because look where we are now, the same situation sixty years down the line. I mean, I think the thing that it did do was show the power of film. I firmly believe that film stirs emotion within people that they don't get through listening to politics [laughs]. (continued above) So if you're trying to raise awareness about these issues, doing it through a medium like film that people can appreciate and be moved by is a far better way than trying to get people to engage with politics, because let's be honest, it's pretty boring at times. I read that part of the inspiration for the festival came in 2010 when you went to Cannes to film the documentary, "Cleaning Up Cannes". What was that experience like? It is a very interesting place. We went the week before Cannes started. It's a very plastic place. It's like, it's this sleepy little town on the French Riveria, and in the week before Cannes Film Festival starts, there's all this sort of glitz and glamour and all the big billboards going up everywhere. So we were walking about, and we saw that there are a lot of homeless people there in the week before. From interviewing the homeless people, we found out that they'd come from all over Europe; they flock to Cannes the