American Minor, by artist Charlie White has been selected to be among the twelve international short films to screen in the 2009 Director's Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival.

Every year, the Directors' Fortnight created by the French Directors Society in 1969, programs a selection of films from around the world during the Cannes Film Festival.

Since its creation, the Directors' Fortnight has discovered and held the first French screenings of debut films by Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmush, Michael Haneke, Spike Lee, the Dardenne Brothers, Sofia Coppola... and invited the likes of Robert Bresson, Manoel de Oliveira, Stephen Frears, among others.

Among the various sections at the Cannes Film Festival, the Directors' Fortnight is distinguished by the independent judgment displayed in the choice of films, the "cinéphile" standards and the accessibility to non-professional audiences at the festival.In fact, the Directors' Fortnight is the non-competitive program at Cannes that is open to the general public, which can buy a subscription for the entire program or purchase tickets for individual screenings.

American Minor is a meditation on the popular image of the American teen girl. Through carefully created, lingering scenes, the film focuses on the external environment and internal state of a fourteen-year-old, upper-middle-class blonde girl whose world is defined through products, objects, and perpetual consumption. The film observes a single, protracted morning in the life of a picture-perfect American youth lost in the dehumanizing space that wealth, isolation, and fear can provide. By watching this American teen perform basic acts, from eating cereal, to watching television, to combing her hair, the film aims to reveal the complicated relationship between personal pleasure and politics, youth and sexuality, and class and suppression.

American Minor will screen at the Theatre Croisette in Cannes on Friday, May 22.