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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  Our Paris Series Part II: La Nouvelle VagueBy Sophie Nellis
Belmondo and Seberg
The French New Wave – known as la nouvelle vague– was a celebration of youth, Paris and, above all, cinema. Many people don’t know that the term nouvelle vague was first used in 1957 to describe the new generation of French youth, emancipated 18 to 30 year olds who were free-thinking and keen to throw off the legacy of the Second World War. It was only following the success of François Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cent Coups and Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival that the term began to be applied to cinema. So what was so new about the New Wave? The young filmmakers leading the movement, Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer, made their films on a shoe string, preferring to shoot in the streets than in studios. They embraced new technology, such as hand-held cameras and mobile microphones, and often worked with non-professional actors. Improvisation was encouraged and when it came to editing, they happily ignored traditional practices. The low-budget, youthful and innovative films were attacked by critics for being slapdash, unprofessional and imperfect. À bout de souffle (1960) is probably the best-loved of New Wave films. It tells the story of Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a petty criminal on the run from the police, and his lover, an American student named Patricia (Jean Seberg). Sitting in cafés or strolling down boulevards, the young couple are enthralled by the glamour and confusion of 1960s Paris. Just as Hollywood movies had exposed New York to cinema audiences around the world, it was through New Wave films that the world came to know the sights and sounds of Paris. The legacy of New Wave representations of the city, whether it be the glamour of the Champs Elysées in À bout de souffle or the back streets of Montmartre in Les Quatre Cents Coups, continues to influence our impressions of Paris. The New Wave changed the way films were made, produced and watched. Thanks to directors like Godard and Truffaut, cinema became an art form and filmmakers artists.
Top 5 New Wave films: Quatre cent coups (1959) François Truffaut Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais À bout de souffle (1960) Jean-Luc Godard Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) Agnès Varda Jules et Jim (1962) François Truffaut
27.10.2009 | ECU's blog Cat. : Belmondo ECU european film Film_Festival independent new new wave nouvelle nouvelle vague paris Seberg vague wave FILM |
Festival InformationAbout 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).
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