Thierry Frémaux, Director of the Cannes Film Festival, the Lumière Film Festival, and the Institut Lumière, sat down with HFPA Member Lorenzo Soria to discuss the past, present, and future of film. Just days after joining the HFPA Film Restoration Summit in Los Angeles where he gave a special presentation on the Lumière brothers restoration project he shared his philosophy on cinema, art, and culture, the needs & goals of film preservation, and what he has learned from his decades of work at Cannes.