MILAN — A regular presence at the Venice Film Festival , this year Chanel swapped its traditional soirée hosted at Harry’s Bar for a lunch celebrating its partnership with Biennale College Cinema.

This is the first time Chanel is endorsing the project, which festival organizers introduced in 2012 and which is dedicated to young filmmakers. In its role as a partner, Chanel provided financial support and connected the participants to industry professionals close to the company.

The initiative promotes new talents and offers them the opportunity to work with master filmmakers on new micro-budget feature films. Since its creation, 68 features by emerging filmmakers have been made, which were selected from more than 2,700 applications from all over the world.

Of the 12 projects chos

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