This weekend is a chance to get shown around like a bit of a trophy but at the same time raise awareness for causes close to their heart.
Guests play with the kids, eat dinner with the family, learn the indigenous lingo, get shown around the village and see a weaving demonstration, all for $31.
But the competition films, and the eventual Palme d'Or, are widely and respectfully discussed and generally get shown around the world.
Then we passed the Houses of Parliament, and I had a flashback to the day I got shown around them by an MP who took me for a sneaky fag at the foot of the clock tower, and how we had looked up at the endless tourists on the bridge taking their Big Ben photos, none of them thinking to glance down and get a shot of a politician sharing a Marlboro Light with a journalist.
These men, women, and children of every race and every faith remind me that for every angry mob that gets shown on television, there are billions around the world who share similar hopes and dreams.
Clark's also got a new "little man" to show around: his son, Zion Rain, with partner Nicole Trunfio.
I can tweet and pour a cup of coffee before Gmail gets around to showing me what I clicked sometimes.
When we finally got there, we were shown around this enormous rocky site with hundreds of temples.
They received legal advice from lawyers and academics, commissioned a cinema advert which was shown around the country, got billboard ads and newspaper ads and received pledges of support from a whole host of people – including Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The other guests that morning included two singers, Cathy Kneese of Manhattan (word of the Heatherton show gets around for younger performers), and Susan Meyer of Baldwin, and Irma Miller, first flutist and manager of the 60-piece Long Island Senior Citizens' Orchestra, which meets weekly at the South Huntington Library.
