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The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) will screen the very best independent films from around the world to a large audience of filmmakers, film industry professionals and a public that craves the energy and free spiritedness of creative independent films.
ÉCU 2010 will be held at Le Grand Action Cinema in Paris, France from 12th-14th March, 2010. Check the ECU COMMUNITY 
Boiler, directed by Andreas Ksoll, is a recent submission to the European Independent Film Festival's 'European Short' category.
Das Paket, directed by Marco Gadge is a recent submission to ECU 2010's European dramatic short category. Check out this teaser!
What would you be willing to sacrifice? DEADSIDE, directed by Mark Triller and an ÉCU 2010 Student Film submission is a psychological-thriller short about a couple who have to make an untimely decision.
By Lindsay Mayer
Q: Explain what your film is about.
The film is about the bond parents have to their children, specifically the heartache of loss, and confronting mortality. Losing a child can be unbearably grievous, more so than the loss of a parent or spouse. ...
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Actress Barbara Wilson and director Reeve Nixon on the set of ‘Entwined.’
‘Entwined’ is about an elderly lady forced to confront her fears of living and dying with regrets as she spends the night trapped in a Victorian whirligig. We talk to British director Reeve Nixon about old age and gambling with the weather when shooting a film outdoors in Scotland.
By Mairi Cunningham
Q: First off, tell me a bit about your film. Correct me if ...
British director Tom Browne talks to us about his film ‘Spunkbubble’ recently entered in ÉCU’s European Dramatic Short category. As original as it is violent, the film is shot entirely as surveillance-camera footage, witnessing the events taking place in one individual hotel room. Yet what these events actually are, we can never really be quite sure…….
By Mairi Cunningham
Q: Your film is unsettling yet intriguing. Tell me what it is about and where the inspi...
L’asilo di Brea is a recent submission to ECU 2010’s Non European Dramatic Short category. Set in Los Angeles, the film traces the meeting between two strangers who after a casual night of intimacy, make the twisted discovery that their relationship is more than they realised. We talk to director Dae Hoon Kim about his inspiration behind the film, the wealth of symbolic imagery as well as his cinematographic influences. By Mairi Cunningham &nb...
ALMARITSU, directed by Damien Montaron, is a recent submission to ÉCU 2010’s Experimental film category.
By Sophie Nellis
Q: Given that it’s the only word spoken in the film, what does “Almaritsu” mean?
The word “Almaritsu” has no verbal definition. It’s a word which contains all words. Almaritsu is a cry, it’s a smile, it’s confidence, it’s a free breath. In fact, this word contains everything that the character is feeling at the time o...
Without anything but a newspaper article to go off of, Aliocha and Alessio Rigo de Righi travelled to Spain to document the daily life of a Catholic monk who had been building a cathedral since the early 1950s. Not letting them film him at first, the two filmmakers exchanged their labor in order to document the monk’s life for seven days. CATEDRAL is a recent submission to ÉCU 2010’s European Documentary Short category.
By Lindsay Mayer
Q: Where did you...
WITHOUT, a recent submission to ECU’s European Dramatic Short category, is directed by Natalia Andreadis. The three minute short focuses on the desparation of a woman caught in an unusual circumstance…
By Lindsay Mayer
Q: First off, I’d like to know: What film has inspired you more than any other?
So many films have had a big impact on me but I suppose I can narrow it down to two in particular. Firstly comes “Jurassic Park” because it i...
Canadian director Dan Clements whose recent submission to ÉCU 2010's Non-European Dramatic Short film category is entitled ”Patient” talks to us about blind dates, false teeth and his motivations as a filmmaker.
By Mairi Cunningham
Q: First off, the ambiguous and unsettling opening was amazing. First time round, I was fooled into thinking it was going to be a very awkward blind date that was about to be acted out, not a hostage negotiation! T...
Un Occhio Non Dimentica (An Eye Doesn`t Forget), directed by Giuseppe Chiesa, is a recent submission to ECU 2010's Experimental category!
The eye records, but memories fade with time. In the realization of this short film I used old 8mm films and I treated them with acid.
Check out this Teaser!!
The ECU team is delighted to confirm that this year’s festival will be held in 2 new venues right in the heart of Paris. In addition to our main venue Cinéma le Grand Action, ECU 2010 will also be hosting events at the independent theatre Le Triomphe. Situated in the heart of the Latin Quarter, with its red velvet seats and curtained screen, entering into this gem of a venue is like stepping back to the golden age of French cinema. As well as film screenings, ECU’s professional film making ...
En Dårlig Dag (A Bad Day) a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 European Dramatic Short Category is about a professional hitman, whose job doesn't go quite to plan. Mairi Cunningham talks to the film's director Bjarki Thomsen.
Q. Tell me briefly about your film. Where did the idea come from to have a hit man finally outdone by his victim?
The hitman has no empathy for others. The only soft spot the hitman has, i...
Having recently won “Best Art Film” at the Monaco International
Film Festival, we asked director Carmen Rozestraten to elaborate on the
inspiration behind her submission to ÉCU 2010, “After The Water The
Clouds.” By Lindsay Mayer
Q: I love the opening shot in this film. How did you get the idea for it?
The opening shot? The original title was “Dreams Of Sleepy Feet”… I
love water. I also love feet…. I tried to use the fee...
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About ECU
 Hillier Scott
(ECU)
Scott Hillier, Festival President and Founder Scott Hillier is a Director / Cinematographer / Screenwriter based in Paris. During his 20 years in the television and film industries, Scott has gained international recognition from his strong cinematography, editing, writing, producing and directing portfolio. Scott started in the television industry in Australia before moving to London in 1988 where he managed to get a job working in Baghdad for the BBC, which led him into spending 10 years traveling the world for the BBC, mainly in war zones like Somalia, Bosnia, Tchetcheynia, Kashmir and Lebanon. After a near fatal encounter with a Russian bomber in Tchechnyia, Scott gave up wars and wrote and directed “Behind the Eyes of War!” which was awarded “Best Short Dramatic Film” at the New York Independent Film and TV festival in 1999. Moving to New York City in 1998, Scott directed and photographed eight one-hour documentaries for National Geographic / The Discovery Channel and also served as Director of Photography on the documentary “Twin Towers” which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject 2003. The diverse creative areas that he has worked in include documentaries, music videos, commercials, feature and short films. He served as Supervising Producer / Director for the critically acclaimed CBS 42 part reality series “The Bravest” in 2002 and wrote and directed the stage play “Deadman’s Mai l” which ran at Le Théâtre du Moulin de la Galette in Paris during the summer of 2004. In 2004 Scott spent 3 months in Ethiopia producing a “Worlds Apart” pilot for ABC America / True Entertainment / Endemol. Scott studied film at New York University and The London Film and Television school as well as literary non-fiction writing at Columbia University. His regular clients include BBC, Microsoft, ABC, PBS and National Geographic. Between filming assignments, he taught film (a Masters Degree in Screenwriting at the Eicar International Film School in Paris) and journalism (Formation des Journalistes Français in Paris). Paris France View my profileSend me a message
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