27/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - Free trade - Steven Spielberg defends cultural exception. Chairman of the jury at the recent Cannes International Film Festival (15-26 May) and renowned American film-maker Steven Spielberg stressed at the closing ceremony that “the cultural exception is the best way of preserving the diversity of cinema”. He has joined nearly 6,000 European film-makers and signatories of a petition calling for audiovisual and cinematographic services to be excluded from...