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 Marc Halperin   Stephen Susco, Mick Garris, Larry Cohen, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White photo by Marc Halperin    Writing for the Genre World a WGA panel moderated by Mick Garris( creator/producer: Masters of Horror; writer/director/producer of Riding the Bullet, Fear Itself and many others. Larry Cohen writer; Phone Booth, I, the Jury and writer or director of numerous other genre favorites. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White co-writers of Boogeyman and Knowi...

The Costa Rica International Film Festival (CRIFF) invites you to experience eight days of independent short and feature films from across the globe at two of Costa Rica's most amazing destinations - Manuel Antonio and Montezuma. This two city festival will showcase a unique collection of film, music, art and special events uniting filmmakers and their fans in paradise.  If you've never visited Costa Rica - NOW IS THE TIME. Join us for the best independendent films in the...

It's the BFI London Film Festival and I'm at the BFI Southbank to meet Clive Owen. We can all just google Clive Owen to read about his achievements as a BAFTA, Golden Globe winner and for his extensive work in the film and tv industry. Therefore I thought I should pick out some goodies from the interview, that you don't read about everywhere else... Born 1964 in Coventry, Clive Owen was a man who didn't have it all set in his early life. With a father who left the family when Owen was thr...

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NEW Sophia was just cast as a "Godess' in the new feature film 'Falcyyr' of Unicovia Pictures Sophia started out in dance, community theatre and playing piano since she was five years old. Sophie's first introduction to film was in ”Santa Claus in Baghdad” RA Visions Productions" as an extra and was hooked. She then participated as an extra in ”Soul Sister”OracleVoice Films" . She started taking acting classes and loved it with a passion that would contin...

Paprika Steen is a true artist. When she arrives for our meeting, she brings a creative energy that makes me think ‘this is what early-mid 1900s Hollywood movie stars must have radiated...’ She talks passionately about her craft. Paprika combines acting and directing and loves both forms of creativity. She speaks Danish, Swedish, English, French and Russian and has the world as her workplace. You get the picture – this is a true movie star! “The most important thing is i...

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