Pierre Lescure

Pierre Lescure born July 2 1945 is a French journalist and television executive He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002 Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival He is the son of François Lescure French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper LHumanité and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit He grew up in ChoisyleRoi He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris He started his career at the radio station RTL where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968 and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972 He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2 In 1981 he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014