Waintrop’s initial one-year contract as head of Cannes’ parallel section extended to 2013 edition.

The French Directors Guild (Société des Réalisateurs) has reappointed Edouard Waintrop as artistic director of Directors’ Fortnight for a second year, the body announced on Friday.

“The Directors Guild board thanks Edouard Waintrop for the success of his first edition of Directors’ Fortnight and entrusts him with the preparation of the 2013 edition,” the body said in a statement.

Waintrop, a respected film critic who ranthe International Film Festival of Fribourg in Switzerland for four years from 2007, was first appointed as artistic director last July, replacing Frédéric Boyer.

His first edition of Directors’ Fortnight – which included The We and the I, Gangs of Wasseypur and Sightseers in the selection — was widely seen as a success.

The 2013 edition of Directors Fortnight will run May 16-26, 2013. Submissions will begin from December 17, 2012.

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