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  ÉCU’s partner – VIEW Fest

  Français Italian VIEW AWARD 2012 | International contest of animated shorts The 2012 VIEW AWARD’s are ready to come out in full! Breaking free from its international tradition, the 2012 VIEW AWARD’s are opening up their doors to new themes, subjects, and a wider audience of contestants! The VIEW AWARD is promoted by VIEW Conference, [...]
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  Scott shooting a documentary in Libya

  Français If you have a good story, pursue it — immediately and at any cost — preaches Scott Hillier, Oscar honored filmmaker and president of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival. Scott, in pursuit of a good story, is doing just that. Departing for Libya this evening, Scott and his crew will film a [...]
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  ÉCU Alumni Jordan Bayne

  Français German Italian Spanish 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 [...]
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  ÉCU Office – Episode Two – First Day

  Français German Italian In our latest episode of The ÉCU Office, interns Marta and Bernice relive their first experiences at the office. Their bizarre tales will make you either want to throw yourself at ÉCU’s doorstep and beg to be an intern, or run away slightly confused… Will our interviewer make it out with her sanity intact? WARNING: This [...]
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  January 2012 Newsletter Update

  Français German Italian 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 [...]
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  Paris Cinecity

  Français German Italian   by Robert Berry For 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 [...]
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  This month – ÉCU screens in Asia

  Français German Italian 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 Festival January 21st – 27th The International Children’s Film Festival returns to Bangladesh later this month, continuing its stated mission to “open a new [...]
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  MTV Video Music Awards: The Beginning

  German Italian by Robert Barry The 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 [...]
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  10th Cyprus Film Days- Call for Entries

  Français 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 [...]
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  ÉCU Alumni Faramarz Beheshti

  Français German 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 [...]

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