"Maria Schneider ,1983" - short film featured in Cannes Directors Fortnight.

by Moira Jean Sullivan The Festival de Cannes Directors fortnight premiere of Maria Schneider, 1983 (16mm) by Elisabeth Subrin will be held May 26 featuring Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval. Together with other filmmakers, Subrin said she was asked to work on an unpublished screenplay for Antonioni's film Technically Sweet in the 1980's to be shot on video. It was never made when Jack Nicholson refused to shoot on location in the Amazon. Antonioni instead made The Passenger (1983) with Maria Schneider and Nicholson. It wasn't until 2014 that Subrin started a blog dedicated to Maria Schneider called Who Cares About Actresses . This was prompted by a media interest in Schneider's negative experience on the set of Last Tango in Paris directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The #METOO movement got behind Schneider's story that she was sexually abused by Bertolutcci and the story was brought to international attention along with similar experiences of o