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Porter (left) and Hill-Edgar outside Hill-Edgar’s office above the festival red carpet. (Photo provided by Morgan Hill-Edgar)

Otsego Abroad: Local Students Work at Cannes Film Festival

By WRILEY NELSON
CANNES, FRANCE

Two Otsego County residents served as interns at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May. Reed Porter, a Middlefield resident and rising junior at Miami University, worked for production company Epic Pictures. Morgan Hill-Edgar, a Cooperstown resident and Glimmerglass Festival actor who graduated from the University of Southern California in May, worked for the independent film media consulting service SAGindie.

Porter’s internship came at the end of an American Institute for Foreign Study semester abroad in Cannes. He spent four months in the Mediterranean city of 75,000 and spent every waking minute exploring the town, wandering the beaches and taking weekend trips to other parts of Europe. Each May, Cannes becomes the center of the global movie industry for two weeks as it hosts one of the “Big Five” international film festivals. The 2023 festival welcomed 13,500 accredited participants, breaking the previous record of 12,500 set in 2019.

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