The world’s most famous film festival is getting the documentary treatment, with a new feature set to chronicle three-quarters of a century of glitz, glamour and mayhem in the south of France.

George Clooney, Kerry Washington, Don Cheadle Backing Roybal School of Film and Television Production. The Roybal School will start with 9th-and 10th-grade students and include Grades 11 and 12 over the next two years.

Following the classic structure of a rise-and-fall biopic, the text chronicles the rise to political power and then tragic murder of Milk, in 1978. Milk’s personal-political story paralleled that of the nascent gay rights movement, specifically after the Stonewall riots in New York, in June 1969.

For that curious look he is going to put on the work of his fellow filmmakers who bring us news of the World – of theirs and surely a little bit of ours too…