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Learn from the best: Exclusive interviews with expert filmmakers

As part of G-Technology’s ongoing support for the ÉCU community as
platinum sponsor, we’ll be bringing you regular exclusive interviews
from filmmakers and producers in the field, sharing top hints and tips.
This month the award-winning student director and ÉCU judge, Louisa
Mayman gives us exclusive tips for student filmmakers.

Louisa Mayman’s Top Tips for Student Filmmakers

1. Be a nuisance! But be a polite nuisance. I take
my CV round with me everywhere and try and offload it whenever I can.
The only way you’ll reap rewards is by putting yourself out there in the
first place.

2. Be open to unpaid opportunities. It is a great way to meet new contacts and to learn more about the industry.

3. Network! But remember that collecting contacts is
about as useful as collecting dust if you do nothing with them. Keep in
touch with them and show them your work!

4. Use the Internet! Tweet and update your Facebook
regularly so that your followers and new contacts can see what you are
getting up to and that you are definitely one to watch. The Internet is
possibly your greatest tool so use it everyday for research, to get
feedback and get your name out there!

5. Make films, loads of films! If you haven’t, like
me, gone to film school and are self-taught, then it’s the best way to
learn the craft! I am continually learning as I go along.

6. Money, Money, Money! For quick and easy funding
options why don’t you monitise your blog? Make special interest films?
Produce Wedding Videos? Sell body parts on eBay?

7. Camera Lights Action! When it comes to equipment,
(like the Guerilla film makers pocket book says), beg, borrow and blag!
But never steal; it could land you in hot water. I always borrow
equipment whenever I can, but I would never depend on someone else’s
hard drive – I trust only my own G-Tech Drives for that.

8. ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR WORK! If you’re interested in
file security at all, then I would recommend a G-Tech Drive! You don’t
want to go through hoops, blood, sweat and tears to get your film made
then just to lose it all! I always use G-Tech Drives because they are so
reliable. It is important to have a hard drive you trust.

9. Enter film festivals and competitions! I feel
that I would not be where I am now if it had not been for ÉCU. Film
festivals provide you with the chance to network, to participate in
workshops, attend Q & A sessions with directors you couldn’t even
hope to meet! You can go to demonstration areas where technology
companies illustrate how to use the latest and greatest equipment (and
even get money off purchases!) You get to see films that inspire you,
get feedback on your own work, see your own work on the big screen and
most importantly, it gets your work in front of the right people.
Festivals and Competitions like Driven Creativity are just so great, you
just need to get your creativity out of you and out there!

10. Let your passion shine through! And remember if
you want to make it in the film industry it’s going to be a marathon not
a sprint! Also when you eventually do become successful, don’t forget
to help others out on their way up.

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Apprenez des meilleurs: des entrevues exclusives avec des cinéastes experts

Dans le cadre du soutien continu de G-Technology pour la communauté
d’ÉCU en tant que sponsor platine, nous allons vous apporter
régulièrement des interviews exclusives des réalisateurs et producteurs,
le partage de conseils et astuces. Ce mois-ci la directrice des élèves
primés et juge d’ÉCU, Louisa Mayman nous donne des conseils exclusifs
pour les étudiants cinéastes.

Les meilleurs conseils Mayman Louisa pour les cinéastes étudiants

1. Être une nuisance! Mais être une nuisance polie. Je prends mon CV
partout avec moi et essaye de le donner dès que je peux. La seule façon
d’être récompensé est de faire en sorte de se trouver au bon endroit.

2. Soyez ouvert aux opportunités même non rémunérées. C’est une
excellente façon de se faire de nouveaux contacts et d’apprendre
davantage sur l’industrie du cinéma.

3. Réseau! Mais rappelez-vous que la collecte de contacts est à peu
près aussi utile que la collecte de poussières, si vous ne faites rien
avec eux. Restez en contact avec eux et montrez-leur votre travail!

4. Utilisez internet! Tweetez et mettez à jour votre Facebook
régulièrement afin que vos amis et nouveaux contacts puissent voir ce
que vous avez fait et que vous êtes assurément à surveiller. Internet
est peut-être votre meilleur outil pour les recherches quotidiennes,
pour obtenir des commentaires et exposer votre nom!

5. Faire des films, des tas de films! Si vous n’êtes pas, comme moi,
allés à l’école du film et êtes devenu autodidactes, alors c’est la
meilleure façon d’apprendre le métier! J’apprends constamment comme au
fur et à mesure.

6. Money, Money, Money! Pour les options de financement rapide et
facile pourquoi ne pas vous MONITISE votre blog? Faire des films
spécialement par intérêt? Faire des vidéos de mariage? Vendre des
parties de votre corps sur eBay?

7. Lights Camera Action! Quand il s’agit de l’équipement, (comme le
film Guerilla Livre de poche décideurs dit), mendier et emprunter! Mais
ne volent jamais, il pourrait vous attirer des ennuis. J’ai toujours
emprunté de l’équipement dès que je peux, mais je n’ais jamais dépendu
du disque dur de quelqu’un d’autre – Je ne fais confiance qu’en mon
disque dur G-Tech.

8. TOUJOURS sauvegarder votre travail! Si vous êtes intéressé par la
sécurité des fichiers, alors je vous recommande un lecteur G-Tech! Vous
ne voulez pas traverser des cerceaux, le sang, la sueur et des larmes
pour obtenir votre film pour tout perdre ensuite! J’ai toujours utilisé
les lecteurs G-Tech car ils sont très fiables. Il est important d’avoir
un disque dur en qui vous avez confiance.

9. Faites des festivals et des concours! Je sais que je ne serais pas
où je suis maintenant si je n’avais pas été à ÉCU 2010. Les festivals
de cinéma offrent la chance de resauter, de participer à des ateliers,
d’assister à des séances Q & A avec les réalisateurs qu’on n’aurait
jamais cru pouvoir rencontrer! Vous pouvez aller dans des zones de
démonstration où les entreprises de technologies illustrent comment
utiliser le matériel le plus récent et le meilleur (et même gagner de
l’argent sur vos achats!). Vous verrez des films qui vous inspirent,
obtiendrez des commentaires sur votre propre travail, verrez votre
propre travail projeté sur grand écran et, surtout, en face des bonnes
personnes. Festivals et concours comme Driven créativité sont tellement
grands, il vous suffit de faire ressortir votre créativité et vous serez
pris là-bas!

10. Faites briller votre passion! Et rappelez-vous que si vous voulez
être dans l’industrie du film, ce sera un marathon pas un sprint!
Aussi, quand on finit par réussir, ne pas oublier d’aider les autres en
chemin.

 

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About ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival

Hillier Scott
(ECU)

 

 

Scott Hillier, Founder and President of ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival
 
Scott Hillier is a director, cinematographer, and screenwriter, based in Paris, France. In the last 20 years, Hillier has gained international recognition from his strong and incredible cinematography, editing, writing, producing and directing portfolio in both the television and film industries.  
 
Scott began his career in the television industry in Australia. In 1988, he moved to London getting a job with the BBC who then set him to Baghdad. This opportunity led him to 10 years of traveling around 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, Hillier gave up his war coverage and began in a new direction. 
 

He moved to New York City in 1998.  He directed and photographed eight one-hour documentaries for National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Based on his war knowledge and experience, Hillier wrote and directed a short film titled, “Behind the Eyes of War!" The film was awarded “Best Short Dramatic Film” at the New York Independent Film and TV Festival in 1999. From that he served as Supervising Producer and Director for the critically acclaimed CBS 42 part reality series, "The Bravest” in 2002 and wrote and directed a stage play called, "Deadman’s Mai l," which ran at Le Théâtre du Moulin de la Galette in Paris during the summer of 2004. He then became the Director of Photography on a documentary titled, “Twin Towers." This was yet another life changing experience for Hillier. The riveting documentary won an Academy Award for "Best Documentary Short Subject" in 2003. In 2004, Hillier changed continents again, spending three months in Ethiopia. He produced “Worlds Apart,” a pilot for ABC America / True Entertainment / Endemol. As you can see, Hillier was and is always in constant movement and enjoys working in a number of diverse creative areas including documentaries, music videos, commercials, feature and short films.

 
Scott studied film at New York University and The London Film and Television School. He also studied literary non-fiction writing at Columbia University. Hillier's regular clients include the BBC, Microsoft, ABC, PBS and National Geographic. Between filming assignments, he used to teach film, a Masters Degree course in Screenwriting at the Eicar International Film School in Paris, France and journalism at the Formation des Journalistes Français in Paris, France. 
 

 


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