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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.

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Last Call for Submissions

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The European Independent Film Festival 2009 submission deadline is January 15.

(PARIS, FRANCE) January 12, 2009.
The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) discovers, promotes and projects the best independent films from around the world every year at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. This year’s festival will take place on March the 13th, 14th & 15th, 2009.

Approximately one hundred films will be selected to compete in thirteen categories including features, shorts, documentaries, animation, student films and experimental. The festival’s ‘official selection’ will represent the pinnacle of contemporary filmmaking talent from around the world and compete for twenty-two awards including the prestigious title of “Europe’s Best Independent Film”. At ÉCU 2008, dozens of distribution agreements were signed, and several films were sold directly after their screening.

“I’m being continually amazed at the quality of films submitted to the festival. The idea that there are people all over the world united by their overwhelming desire to tell a masterful story, most often with limited resources, shows that the creative spirit of independent filmmakers is alive and kicking. I’m honoured that filmmakers continue to choose us to screen their films,” says Scott Hillier, President of The European Independent Film Festival. “We have only one week before the final deadline which means things are heating up for our selection committee. I guarantee an official selection slate that exemplifies the heart, soul and passion of independent filmmaking.

Since its inception four years ago, ÉCU has become the premier arena in Europe for independent filmmakers to screen their films to large international audiences, to network with producers, talent scouts, agents and distributors as well as exchange ideas with other indie filmmakers. The ÉCU festival is regularly referred to as Europe’s version of the Sundance Film Festival.

After the Paris festival screenings in March 2009, a selection of ÉCU’s official selection will be presented at our partner festivals around the World. Additionally, we are in the planning stages of organizing a whirlwind “US Tour” where a selection of ECU’s award-winning films will be screened in cinemas across America!

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2009. Independent filmmakers are invited to submit their films at www.ecufilmfestival.com.

Rhiannon Hobbins
The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU)
info@ecufilmfestival.com

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About ECU

Hillier Scott
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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).

 


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