Cannes Dispatches

M.F.A. Ryan Coogler Writes About Festival

If you've ever wondered about what it's like to be a young filmmaker taking your work to Cannes, check out the first-person dispatches that production M.F.A. student Ryan Coogler is filing at cinema.usc.edu/students/blog.

Coogler, who is in his second year of the program, is showing Locks, which he wrote and directed, at the American Pavilion.

He writes about everything from the logistics of changing money to meeting some of the world's greatest filmmakers, producers, stars and more.