She benefitted from both the screenwriters' and directors' labs - and received financial support - well before her film premiered at the festival two years ago.
She benefitted from the inherited privileges of whiteness while growing up and through most of her adult life, then she later exploited light-skinned privilege while identifying as an ethnically mixed person.
But she also felt that she benefitted from things staying as they were.
Ultimately, however, she benefitted from what proved an uncomfortable experience She told the recent annual general meeting of the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's: "Three months down the line I felt much better and I'm back to my normal energy levels.
Some members of the Cherokee Nation protested her claim to Native American ancestry and questioned whether she benefitted from it.
Some say that a terrorist attack might work in her favour, but if you go back to the attacks in Paris and look at Le Pen's support then there is actually very little evidence that she benefitted at all.
