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ÉCU Film Festival is now presenting an exclusive offer to all film schools to encourage students to participate in our festival!
I would like to extend an invitation for your school to participate
in the 7th edition of the European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU),
Europe’s premier event for independent filmmakers an...
If you will be in Rome Saturday, June 18th, consider attending
the “Reality Bites” party for live music and stories of production
experiences! Located at the Sentiere Selvaggi school. More details on
our website! http://bit.ly/krXFOz
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REALITY BITES
NEW BUSINESS MODELS, CREATIVITY, COMMUNICATION
AND YOUNG PEOPLE SHARING CINEMA
Saturday June 18th 2011 @ 6.30 pm at Sentieri Selvaggi School: via Carlo Botta 19, Roma
FREE ENTRY
A pa...
If you think our festivals are all work and no play, you're wrong! Our launch party this year was awesome! Here's a short clip that proves it.
Si vous pensez que nos festivals se résume à beaucoup de travail et peu de loisirs, vous avez tort ! Notre réception cette année était extra ! Voici un extrait qui le prouve.
"27m2" is the winner of ÉCU's 2011 "Film of the Festival" award. World Premiere - Robert Marron is the receptionist of the Eldorado Hotel, lost in his language theory. He want to become a translator for couples, convinced that everyone is a language and that he has the faculty to understand everyone. This film is an essay on lack of communication for people who think they need to be understood.
If you think our festivals are all work and no play, you’re wrong! Our
launch party this year was awesome! Here’s a short clip that proves it.
http://bit.ly/iUZztq
Si vous pensez que nos festivals se résume à beaucoup de travail et peu de
loisirs, vous avez tort ! Notre réception cette année était extra ! Voici un
extrait qui le prouve.
http://bit.ly/iUZztq
...
Tuesday night, May 31st, ÉCU hosted its first
of our year-round Special Screenings Event in Paris for two films that won
awards at the 2011 festival; Paths of
Hate, winner of Best Animation, featuring two combat fighters at war
with each other; and Salam Rugby,
winner of Best Non European Independent Documentary, following the first
women rugby class ever organized in Tehran.
The evening event which ran from 20h to 23h
was held in the eclectic "Café
Coutume," ...
ÉCU is excited to host our first post-2011 festival screening, where
we will be featuring two “Europe’s Best Independent” awarded films at
Café COUTUME, located in central Paris.
This showing will be one of many special screenings ÉCU will be
hosting in Paris in the next few months. Make sure you sign up with our
ÉCU Members Club to get premier access to all of our screenings!
To obtain your passes now, click here:
...
Entry opens online on the 1st June and is free of charge!
Open to talented professional and non-professional filmmakers, entrants
will have the chance for their hard work and creative ambitions to be
recognised and rewarded.
Winners and runners-up will be awarded stylish G-Technology external
hard drives and the overall winner will receive €5,000 – all to further
drive their creativity.
The first year of the competition in 2010 saw hundreds of entrants
from all o...
Dirty Old Town
Watch ÉCU's interview with the filmmakers behind Dirty Old Town, a gonzo hit showing the darker side of Manhattan.
Regardez l'entretien d'ÉCU avec les realisateurs de Dirty Old Town, un film Gonzo qui se traite du côté sinistre de Manhattan.
A Shared Palme D'Or
Take a look at all the amazing awards "27m2," winner of ‘Europe's Best Independent Film’ at ÉCU 2011, won at the Los Angeles Movie Awards! Well done!
http://thelamovieawards.com/2011_%28I%29_Winners.html
Jetez un œil à tous les incroyables prix que "27m2," lauréat de 'Europe's Best Independent Film' de ÉCU 2011, a remporté à la cérémonie Los Angeles Movie Awards ! Bien joué !
http://thelamovieawards.com/2011_%28I%29_Winners.html
...
Now that the Cannes Film Festival has come to the end of its 12 day
run, we can say that 2011 was full of change and excitement! Lots of
fun, but definitely lots of work and preparation as well! The Closing
Ceremony dished out all the glamour that we have come to expect from the
Cannes Film festival, and DeNiro was more than willing to play the part
as this year’s Jury President, distributing the coveted trophies to the
winning directors and stars of the evening.
Despit...
Meet young and talented filmmaker David Jakubovic. In the interview he is talking about his latest film "The Forrest is Red", a story of awkward, socially dysfunctional Nathan. Check it out!
Rencontrez cineaste indépendant David Jakubovic.
by Marc Rickenbach
The 64th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival opened with Woody Allen’s new film Midnight in Paris. The American
filmmaker, who has been honored by the festival in the past, is famously
known to keep his films out of any competition and often does not show
up, even if nominated. To some this might appear as a slight against
those who wish to celebrate his work, but Allen simply does not feel
that films, or any art for that mat...
We’re excited to open up submissions here in Cannes for the seventh edition of ÉCU, taking place from March 30th to April 1st 2012 in Paris, France. We can’t wait to see what you all have to show us this year!
Pour tous nos fans ÉCU prêts et impatients – nous sommes désormais prêts d’accepter toutes vos soumissions 2012! Nous attendons avec grande impatience pour vos submissions!
A little over halfway done with Festival de
Cannes now! How about some pretty impressive fun facts and numbers to
give you an idea of how big this production is?
2km: The total length of red carpet unraveled over the duration of the festival; carpets are changed three times a day.
6: New languages were added to the Cannes website last year to stress the festival’s international character.
15%: The percentage of their annual turnover that Cannes hotels earn in just 12 ...
Hey ÉCU Film Festival fans!
Our team is going to be attending
the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival from May 14th to May 21st keeping
you all up to date via Facebook posts, Twitter tweets and even a few vlogs
featuring:
Interviews
Videos
Photos
Cool articles
Hints & Tips
So stay tuned for more!
http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/en/ecu-live-at-cannes/
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Salut les fans ÉCU Film Fe...
Forum des Images’s ‘Series Mania’ event
from the 10th – 17th April included projections in cinemas of the latest
American, British and French TV series and several round table sessions
hosted by experts where the public could discuss the themes, characters
and cinematography of the various series. I use the word
‘cinematography’ because this really was at the heart of every debate
throughout the week; can we still distinguish between a television
series and a film...
Take a look at some great behind the scenes footage from ÉCU 2011 , featuring background music from a live performance by Ellis playing her song "How Would It Be." Vive ÉCU !
Jetez un oeil à quelques moments en coulisse du ÉCU 2011, mettant en vedette la musique d'ambiance d'une performance en direct par Ellis qui joue sa chanson "How Would It Be." Vive ÉCU !
Meet some of the filmmaking faces of ÉCU 2011 as they introduce their films and what is was that inspired them to make their way into the world of independent cinema.
Rencontrez quelques uns des cinéastes d’ÉCU 2011 dans cette video, où ils introduisent leurs oeuvres et dévoilent ce qui les a inspirés de se lancer dans le monde du cinéma indépendant.
During ÉCU 2011 we interviewed several filmmakers and judges. Meet Oscar Vega, Alan Arrivee, Gerard Delorme, Louisa Mayman and Elliot Grove and find out what does ÉCU mean to them, why is this festival different from others and get their tips for first time independent filmmakers getting started in the industry. Check out the video!
From
cameras and costumes to cahiers and clippings, the Cinémathèque
Francaise’s Kubrick season is an insightful exhibition for everyone from
cinema novices to devoted followers alike.
First things first, let me just say that I am no great expert on
Kubrick. I’ve seen his major films (with mixed reactions) and I’ve read
articles with a passing interest, but he’s not a director for whom I’ve
scrambled though library back catalogues to find first edition copies...
Meet, Katharina Kowalewski. She has directed over 100 fashion videos with her
company KO.FASHION for clients such as Vogue, Swarovski, Bild, Keylooks
and Stylebop.
Her first short, co-directed with Nadine Strittmatter, “Sweet Focus” will be at the “Short Film Corner”
in Cannes this year. The movie was shot in one week in Arosa in the
Swiss Mountains and is about two sisters. Eva lives in the mountains
and has spent all of her life caring for her recently passed awa...
Seven months ago when I applied to work as an intern for ÉCU -The European
Independent Film Festival (aka Fun European Project as it said in the
Craiglist job ad!) I had no idea what I was getting myself into. During
these months I have met some of the most interesting people ever, worked
hard, played hard, but most important enjoyed my time while working for
the “Fun European Project”.
My position at the festival has been marketing coordinator, which has
been fun an...
by Marc Rickenbach
In recent months French filmmaker and arts and crafts enthusiast Michel Gondry has been popping his head up all over the place on both sides of the Atlantic. The director, most well known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Science of Sleep (not to mention numerous music videos, which we’ll get to in a bit), released the big screen version of old time radio and comic book hero The Green Hornet in January. To promote the new film, he guest dir...
by Kathryn Hall
My flatmate and I set a house rule to only watch French films while
living in Paris, to better ‘immerse’ ourselves in our adoptive land’s
language and culture and so on. Though we push it at times, (’Jean
Reno’s French, so I guess we can justifiably watch Léon again…’) this
has led us to stumble upon a couple of less widely remembered French
films. The first was Les Amants du Pont Neuf, directed by Leos Carax – a
very late-’80s/early-...
