Portrait of an independent filmmaker: Egil Pedersen

English Français Italian by Catherine Rierson   I met Egil Pedersen on the way to one of the festival’s after-parties. With his hands stuffed in his jacket’s pockets, the scarf tightly wound around his neck, and his overall quiet disposition, I was initially hesitant to approach the seemingly timid director. Nonetheless, in the bright, fluorescent [...]

ÉCU’S Partner – On Location: Memphis International Film & Music Fest

English Français German Italian Think Memphis and you think music: Graceland, Stax, Sun Studios. So its no surprise that On Location Memphis is one film festival where music and movies are the best of buddies, whether its special events like live flamenco at the Rhumba Room or the live blues and rock’n’ roll at the [...]

ÉCU’S Partner: The Clare Valley Film Festival

English Français German Italian The Clare Valley Film Festival, deep in Australia’s Mid-North Region, is saturated with the rich landscape and oral history of its region. This young festival is already “building a reputation as one of the top educationally focused film festivals in regional Australia” (Screenculture.net) and in that it stands as a landmark [...]

Nightmare before the Festival

English Français Italian by Andrea Armellini Nobody told me that the night before the Festival I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep. I guess I will remember for a while those hours in the night while I was staring at the ceiling with my mind overwhelmed with a mix of concern and excitement. The months [...]

Mike Beck and Access Film Music – The Festival Soundtrack

English Français Italian by Robert Barry Mike Beck is a big bearded, shaggy-haired bear of a man. A full-time musician since 2001, as frontman to Chicago Mike’s InterGalactic Brother and Sisterhood of Big Eyed Beans he spends four or five months of the year touring in Europe, playing some 250 gigs a year. Meanwhile, “between [...]

ÉCU’s Partner – FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE SAX (FICS)

English Français Italian Spanish El Festival Internacional de Cine de Sax (FICS) es un joven e interesante festival que se realiza a lo largo del mes de julio en el pintoresco pueblo de Sax, cerca de la costa y situado en el centro de la provincia de Alicante (Comunidad de Valencia), España. El festival se [...]

10 Coolest Animated Music Videos

English Français German Italian by Ariana Marsh Admittedly, before I started working for ÉCU my knowledge of music video genres was embarrassingly narrow. I was well versed in those that included catchy dance routines, the most bizarrely couture fashions, sickeningly impossible romantic love stories, and even those including all of the above PLUS million dollar [...]

“M Farm” Best European Independent Documentary at ÉCU 2012

English Français ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival 2012 hosted its 7th edition, March 30th through April 1st where “M Farm” won Best European Documentary. Rita Broka worked as a journalist for an evening news programme called “Panorama,” a 90′s patriotic talkshow in Latvia.  Now she feels she has fully become a “film person.” [...]

ÉCU 2012 From Start to Finish

English Français German Italian That’s it, folks! ÉCU 2012 is over and done with, but we have one final slideshow for you all! So sit back, relax, and reminisce in all these incredible ÉCU moments…we know we will! Click to watch video: ÉCU 2012 From Start to Finish

English Français German Italian Spanish ¡Muy buenas fotógrafos! Sabemos que hemos estado subiendo fotos como locos los últimos findes del ÉCU 2012 – El festival europeo de cine independiente. ¿Y porqué no? Hubo maravillosos momentos que queríamos documentar. Bueno, pues ahora queremos ver vuestras habilidades también. Mándanos tus mejores fotos del festival, ya sean de [...]