Scott Hillier
Hi! Our early deadline is getting near so if you directors want your film to be in competition at ÉCU 2010 you’d best work on locking that picture and send us a screening copy as soon as possible! You’ll find submission details at www.ecufilmfestival.com.
While everyone seems to have spent the year being battered from pillar to post due to the World’s economic implosion, submissions have been coming in to us at a steady stream. As usual we ar...
Article by Sarah Schutzki Voisin
Rodrigo Vila pitching his project "Hero of Two Sisters Mountain" to a professional panel at ECU's Perfect Pitch 2009
From London (Good Pitch) to Scotland (The Edinburgh Pitch) to Barcelona (DocsBarcelona) to Paris (ECU’s The Perfect Pitch!!), workshops, forums and presentations on the art of pitching have become one of the backbones of the independent film festival.
In addition to offering up a great reason to travel, these ...
Article by Anna Takayama
Director, Alice Mitterrand recently submitted her film, D’UNE VIE A L’AUTRE to the ÉCU 2010 Dramatic Short category. She discusses the joys and sorrows of motherhood as well as her own struggles as a filmmaker.
Q: What is your film about?
The film is about motherhood, which is a very sensitive time in a woman’s life. Everything changes: one’s way of thinking, one’s priorities, and one’s vision on life. In this s...
Article by Anna Takayama
Turnstunde, from director Hannes Rall, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 Animation category, is about the adventures of a young boy and his unusual nightmare: the gym lesson! Anna Takayama finds out what inspired the director, and more.
Q: What is your film about?
A chubby little boy is faced with the the recurring traumatic experience of attending a gym lesson. He is confronted by his evil and slightly sadistic sport...
Article by Anna Takayama
SÆKZI, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 Dramatic Short category, is an honest story of a woman’s battle with her lack of self-confidence through the eyes of her devoted lover. Director Lars T. Moen gives interviewer Anna Takayama his views on women, beauty, ideals, and love in modern times.
Q: What is your film about?
Sækzi is a film about self-confidence, and how it shouldn’t matter what you look like. The film port...
Article by Kaly Halkawt
NYU film student, Gabrielle Demeestere, who recently submitted her short The Last Cigarette to ÉCU 2010’s Non-European Dramatic Short category discusses the humorous side of smoking.
Q: Tell me briefly about your film?
The Last Cigarette is a short comedy I directed in my first year of graduate school at NYU film school. It tells the story of Lise, a French tourist, who finds herself alienated by her smoking habit in...
Article by Anna Takayama
Four Roses, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 European Dramatic Feature category, explores themes of isolation, love, and being. Director Kris De Meester talks to Anna Takayama about the charm of police sirens, the color of black and white, and flying hippos in France.
Q: What is your film about?
Four Roses is about everything and nothing, the unbearable lightness of being and the eternal sense of every passing minute. As Henry David Thoreau once w...
By Sophie Nellis
The view of Paris from Parc de Belleville
Next stop on our tour of Paris is the area of Belleville. Straddling the 19th and 20th arrondissements, Belleville is located between Rue de Belleville, Rue des Pyrénées, Rue de Ménilmontant and Boulevard de Belleville. It is situated on and around a hill and if you make it to the Parc de Belleville there are some amazing views of the city’s skyline.
Belleville began its life as a working cla...
The winner announced
In Saturday’s afternoon of 24th of October during the Closing ceremony the decision of Media Jury of 10th Riga’s Nordic Film Days was announced and the winner awarded with the symbolic NorthernTable, which became incarnated into a chamomile ornamented cup.
Film Days’ jury - satori.lv journalist Irbe Treile, DJ of Radio SWH Toms Grevins and magazine’s Klubs chief editor Juris Sleiers decided Icelandic director Valdís Óskarsdóttir’s exciting comedy Country...
CAMBOFEST thanks all the contributors who are making this, our 3rd season, possible.
It's still not too late to make a contribution...to Cambodia's only first
international independent movie festival, CamboFest - now in our 3rd
year (2009 Edition takes place December 4-6, 2009 * www.cambofest.com)
The American documentary U.N. ME, a lacerating look at the inefficiencies of the United Nations, has its word premiere at the IDFA International Documentary Festival Amsterdam this week. In a film that exposes the incompetence and corruption at the heart of the United Nations, filmmakers Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff show how an organization created to ennoble mankind now actually enables evil and sows global chaos.
When the United Nations was founded more than sixty yea...
Lourdes (Dir Jessica Hausner 2009 Austria)
Jessica Hausner's new film Lourdes may be the most mysterious film screened at this year's Tallinn film festival, one that takes a story of religious and spiritual import and casts that world and those themes down a gauntlet that suggests Hitchcock and Tati in its supremely calibrated conceptual suspense and encircling humor. The story finds a wheelchair-bound Sylvie Testud, whose character is suffering from multiple-sclerosis, traveling...
This is a trailer of the film
White Men Cant Dance, we got a 15 min standing ovation on the film
when it premiered in NY City. The film will be coming out soon.
Best Break Dance film of the year, Family film, uplifting, funny, gives you hope, based on a true story. Best Break Dancing ever, with incredible camera shots and cinematography. We made History.
Summer is coming to Tallinn next week.....well not exactly the balmy weather of July and August, but a film that brings with it the sultriness of that special season. The American indie hit (500) DAYS OF SUMMER opens the 13th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the biggest film festival event in Eastern Europe, on November 26. The festival, which will unspool nearly 250 films in Estonia's capital city, is a true feast for adventurous cinema lovers.
One of the bi...
High/Low, directed by Fabien Dubois , is a recent submission to ECU 2010's European Dramatic Short category! Check out this Teaser!!
THE KONKANI FILM "TUM KITEM KORTOLO ASLO?" (THE CHOICE) IS FAST NEARING COMPLETION. ITS BACKGROUND MUSIC IS CONCEIVED BY MR.CLARON MAZARELLO, A GOAN BELONGING TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF MUSICIANS.
THE BACKGROUND MUSIC HAS INPUTS BY ELVIS LOBO (A GUITARIST OF INTERNATIONAL FAME) AND MUKESH GHATWAL (OF REMO FERNANDES' FAME) WHO HAS PROGRAMMED THE ENTIRE MUSIC.
CLARON MAZARELLO HAS VISUALIZED THE MUSIC KEEPING IN MIND THE MOOD OF THE STORY. LIVE BRASS AND VIO...
Michael Moore's name and his latest film CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY were stark omissions when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named 15 films that have made the short-list in the Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Academy Awards. Of 89 films submitted, the Oscar race has been pared down to these fifteen.
“The Beaches of Agnes”
Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)
“Burma VJ”
Anders Ostergaard, director (Magi...
The Toronto Student Film Festival has started a social network where youth may come together and build a community of individuals who have an interest in meeting others who are working with digital imaging, including photography and video. Please check it out and join. Be a part of it! http://digitalimagingforstudents.ning.com/...
