MTV Video Music Awards: The Beginning

English 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 [...]

10th Cyprus Film Days- Call for Entries

English 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 [...]

ÉCU Alumni Faramarz Beheshti

English 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. [...]

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ÉCU’s new partners from Italy- MAshRome Film Festival

English Français Italian MAshRome FILM FEST – MASH UP AWARDS 2012 Rome, June 2012 Submit your film www.mashrome.org The 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 [...]

ÉCU Office- Episode One – Ed Who?

English Welcome to the ÉCU office, where the sun always shines, the interns are content, the films are superb and… Ed is the boss? Join our late intern, Ed, as he guides us on a short, slightly delusional journey through our office. Bienvenue au bureau ÉCU, où le soleil brille, les stagiaires sont content, les [...]

ÉCU’s partner The Virtual Bridge

English Français Italian Spanish 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 [...]

ÉCU’s Partner CityCelebrity

English Français Italian 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, [...]

ÉCU in American University of Bulgaria

English Français 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 [...]

December Newsletter Update

English Français Italian Spanish Brrr, it’s freezing cold outside here in Paris but that hasn’t kept the folks here at ÉCU from flying all over the place to screen a selection of our award winning films from ÉCU 2011, and to promote the great submissions that we are getting for ÉCU 2012, on location at [...]