As the Cannes festival reaches the grand and rather respectable age of 62, you might be forgiven for thinking that it’s become a little set in its ways. At first glance, the official selection almost reads like a roll call of perennial favourites (Almodóvar: check, Loach: check, von Trier: check…)

Meanwhile, our daily is diving into its own favourite territory: with our usual focus on the upcoming talents, first and second features, and short films present this year. We’ll also be giving ample space to the rich diversity to be found in the parallel sections of the festival. All this not through any impetuous ‘anti-establishment’ or subversive intent mind, but because looking towards the future of cinema is our very raison d’être.

Actually, even behind the big names, you can reliably expect at least a few surprises - the latest Pixar animated feature UP, although suitably commercial, was certainly not a choice of opening film that some would have predicted.

If there’s something this young upstart publication can learn here, perhaps it’s that elements of innovation within a tried and tested format more often than not prove to be worth the risk.

This year, the 4th edition of Nisimazine Cannes features several: not only are we expanding our horizons by welcoming young Latin American journalists to join our traditionally European-composed team, but we’re reaching out to wider international audiences with a new online version accompanied by video blog coverage - all updated daily on www.nisimazine.eu.

Just don’t hold your breath for Nisimazine 3D in 2010…