Netflix Pulls Entries from Cannes Film Festival The streaming service has decided to pull out from this year’s festival due to a ban that excludes their entries from prize eligibility. Netflix could screen its entries, but its chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, told Variety about the ongoing war between streaming services and traditional film distributors. Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, to Variety Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, to Variety The ban, which Cannes announced last year, states that films that have not been theatrically distributed in France cannot enter the competition. Netflix's 'The Other Side Of The Wind' and an unfinished Orson Welles project will not be screening.