"Mary and Bill" is a new submission to ÉCU 2012. A documentary following two elderly athletes, Mary, a 90 year old triathlete, and Bill, an 83 year old high jumper. Mary has just broken her leg while down hill skiing and Bill, who smoked for 45 years, is recovering from a heart attack. Through their amazing commitment, both Mary and Bill prove that age is just a number.
"Mary and Bill" est un ...
1. Hi Jordan! We’ve never met but your film “Argo” was an official selection here at ÉCU in 2007. Tell us a bit about your new film, “The Sea Is All I Know”…Well it’s a film about love. The film stars Academy Award winner Melissa Leo [The Fighter] and Peter Gerety. It follows an estranged couple as they come to terms with their adult, terminally ill daughter’s request to help her die with dignity.2. You chose to avoid doing the whole film festival circuit in favour of a run at t...
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ÉCU wishes everyone a Happy New Year and we hope that everyone is energized, re-vitalized and ready to attack everything that 2012 is going to throw at us!Our FINAL, FINAL submission date is January 15th so, if there is anyone still out there with a great story and not already sent it to us now is the time. Our submission judges, over 60 of them hailing from all over the world, didn’t have a very long Christmas break and are screening films like crazy people as we work towards compiling a gre...
by Robert BerryFor all Paris residents who are also lovers of cinema – a Venn diagram with a broad intersection if ever there was one - watching Woody Allen’s recent Midnight in Paris must have provoked a series of uncanny recognitions: the steps at the top of Rue de la Montagne Ste-Genevieve without the overspill crowds of drinkers from the Bombardier pub, entrance to Polidor on Rue Monsieur le Prince, but with the tables arranged slightly differently. Allen’s film presents an impossib...
This month ÉCU will be screening some of its winning films from 2011 in Asia at our partner film festivals in Bangladesh and in India.International Children’s Film FestivalJanuary 21st – 27thThe International Children’s Film Festival returns to Bangladesh later this month, continuing its stated mission to “open a new world of cinema to the children of Bangladesh and to give them an exposure to culture and tradition of different countries through film as a powerful media of art.” This ...
by Robert BarryThe competition was stiff. Amongst the other nominees were Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’, Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, the Tobe Hooper-directed clip for Billy Idol’s ‘Dancing With Myself’, and the epic $500,000 mini-movie of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. But the first ever MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year went to the number 7 hit, ‘You Might Think’ from Bostonian new-wavers, The Cars.Opening in a computer-generated apartment with...
The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre announces that Calls for Entries for the 10thCYPRUS FILM DAYS -International Film Festival 2012, are now open. The festival, which is being held for the 10th time this year, will host an international competition section titled “Glocal Images” in which film-makers from around the globe and Cyprus are invited to submit their films.The films participating in the competition section will be selected by the festival’s artistic committee:...
Meet Iranian – New-Zealander Faramarz Beheshti, winner of Best Non-European Independent Documentary at ÉCU 2011 for “Salam Rugby”. It is a story of women rugby players in Iran, which may sound like an anomaly, but as this documentary shows, Iranian women are more than ready to dive into the scrum if only the authorities would let them. Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979 competitive sports for women were actively discouraged and it wasn't until the social reforms of the 90s that wome...
MAshRome FILM FEST – MASH UP AWARDS 2012Rome, June 2012Submit your film www.mashrome.orgThe Application Form to submit your film is available on www.mashrome.org. The MAshRome Film Fest, the first Italian festival dedicated to Mash Up, will showcase previews of the best new mash-ups of filmmakers from all over the world.A panel of international judges comprising illustrious names in the artistic, cultural and film industry world, will decide the winners of the competition, whose works will re...
The Virtual Bridge’s mission is helping young independent filmmakers & producers to connect with the European film industry by organising FilmPitch Webinar Services and provide Training & Education Programs using online meeting technology -removing geographical boundaries.Our focus is to build a (virtual) bridge between filmmakers in developing countries and the European film industry.The programs of the foundation are developed with the aim to scout...
The federal network of city portals CITYCELEBRITY (www.citycelebrity.ru) is the largest independent crowdsourcing creative platform in Russia. They gather young talents from the whole of the country, making projects and contests in which thousands of people can take part and collaborate with festivals, culture centers, universities, international representatives and embassies, galleries, museums, creative and business communities.By registering at CITYCELEBRITY, you are going to to get new exper...
American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) held its first Short Film Fest on the last weekend of November. It brought together ÉCU- The European Independent Film Festival, South Western University “Neofit Rilski”, the International Documentary and Short Film Festival (DokuFest), Early Bird Student Film Festival, and In the Palace International Short Film Festival.Scott Hillier, the president of ÉCU gave a lecture at the opening, which was the highlight of the three-day event. He talked about f...
Compete, be judged, screen, be seen, promote, network, travel, participate, join, discover.
1. Compete: If you get into ÉCU 2012’s Official Selection you will be in competition with some of the best independent filmmakers in the world at Europe’s premier independent film festival.
2. Screen your film to large international audiences if your film is selected to be in the elite group of less than 100 films in the Official Selection.
3. Get judged by a panel of experts ...
About you…
1. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Lost in Amyland
2. If someone wrote an article about your time at ÉCU, what
would the headline be (this may or may not be shamelessly stolen and
used as the title to this Intern Buzz by a lazy editor)
European Independent Film Festival rescues stray dingo off the streets of Paris
3. What is your favourite drink?
I wouldn’t say no to a cucumber and basil martini.
4. Cats...
1. Your film is about insects in a post-apocalyptic world – where does your inspiration come from?
My inspiration usually starts from character or history, something
visually striking or profound, and I build a story from there, but in
the case of ‘Invertebrate’, it was a flash of inspiration under
pressure…
I was in a pitch meeting with the local branch of the now defunct UK
Film council (Northern Film & Media- thankfully NFM are still here)
where I had been as...
FOOLS’ PARADISE PRODUCTIONS partnered with ÉCU – THE EUROPEAN
INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL presents Best Student Film: Stanley Pickle,
directed by Victoria Mather, Best Animation: Paths of Hate, directed by
Damian Nenow, Best Experimental Film: Invertebrate, directed by James
McAleer and Special Jury Mention: Städgata directed by Erick Love
Lundqvist.
The principal guest of the event will be
Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal: Minister of parliamentary affairs. The ju...
ÉCU in the news in India and that thanks to our partners Fool's Paradise Film Festival.
ÉCU in the news in India and that thanks to our partners Fool's Paradise Film Festival.
INT. TATTOO PARLOR - NIGHT
A GIRL, dull and gray stands before a chair as she lets her dress fall to the floor like silk
GIRL
It’s the pleasure in the pain that hurts so much
JOE
(pulling dress back up)
Woaah! You don’t need to take your whole dress off, I’m only doing a tattoo on your shoulder!
She sits frozen, braces for pain. She hears the soft needle. It echoes in the room. Her breath is uncomfortable
JOE (CONT.)
Ready?
GIRL
Don’t be careful. Be not d...
Check out ÉCU's NEW LOOK for 2012!
Another year, another amazing festival, another great new look!
Enjoy our new look and get ready for the best ÉCU festival yet, taking place in Paris on March 30th, 31st and April 1st.
The
Kabelvåg Kunstfilmfestival is finally seeing daylight this November,
after local initiatives have materialized into more than just
after-party-ideas in early hours of the morning.
The small village of Kabelvåg has its roots deep in the fishing
traditions of northern Norway. Despite location half-way to the North
Pole, the village also boasts a well-established film and art school, a
photo college and a considerable amount of local artists who form a
vibrant creati...
It is hot, hot, hot in Paris this month! As Parisians begin to
shuffle their way back from their summer vacations, the empty streets of
Paris are beginning to clutter up once again. With the month of August
swiftly coming to a close, it heralds the bittersweet end of summer and
the start of busy spring days ahead. After a nice relaxing summer it’s
time for the ÉCU team to get back to work! Although the summer has been a
bit more laid back than usual, submissions are still rolling ...
