CRISTAL: The champagne-maker faced criticism when an exec said rappers' affection might not be bubbly for its image.
Jacob Acaye, the Ugandan former child abductee at the heart of the film Kony 2012, a web phenomenon seen by more than 50 million people around the world, defended the video and its makers on Thursday against criticism that it is misleading and champions western intervention against an insurgency which is already waning and on the run.
But along with other smart TV makers, it has faced criticism that many people rarely use the added functionality.
The show's maker, Aaron Haroon Rashid, said the criticism was misplaced because the heroine uses a burqa only when in disguise.
Perhaps most significantly of all, however, Cannes is throwing its weight behind women film-makers, after attracting considerable criticism for its male-dominated line-up in 2012.
Bridesmaids film-maker Paul Feig has described criticism he received after signing on to direct a new version of Ghostbusters featuring "funny women" as "vile, misogynistic shit".
Paul Watson - in my view a great documentary maker, although not above criticism by any means - has returned to the subjects of his most poignant film, Malcolm and Barbara: A Love Story, to record the inevitable conclusion of their tragedy.
12 Years a Slave will inevitably draw comparisons with Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, which garnered a second Oscar for the maverick film-maker earlier this year (while drawing criticism from figures such as Spike Lee for its liberal use of the "N" word).
In the wake of these criticisms, deal makers are likely to be highlighting the need for yet more careful and regulated procedures governing involvement of chief executives in the negotiation of transactions, particularly when the executive is getting additional benefits or trying to arrange a management buyout.
Drug makers, their images battered by criticism of high drug prices, have become some of the world's biggest corporate philanthropists.
