Scott Hillier Hi! Our early deadline is getting near so if you directors want your film to be in competition at ÉCU 2010 you’d best work on locking that picture and send us a screening copy as soon as possible! You’ll find submission details at www.ecufilmfestival.com. While everyone seems to have spent the year being battered from pillar to post due to the World’s economic implosion, submissions have been coming in to us at a steady stream. As usual we ar...

Article by Sarah Schutzki Voisin    Rodrigo Vila pitching his project "Hero of Two Sisters Mountain" to a professional panel at ECU's Perfect Pitch 2009 From London (Good Pitch) to Scotland (The Edinburgh Pitch) to Barcelona (DocsBarcelona) to Paris (ECU’s The Perfect Pitch!!), workshops, forums and presentations on the art of pitching have become one of the backbones of the independent film festival. In addition to offering up a great reason to travel, these ...

 Article by Anna Takayama   Director, Alice Mitterrand recently submitted her film, D’UNE VIE A L’AUTRE to the ÉCU 2010 Dramatic Short category. She discusses the joys and sorrows of motherhood as well as her own struggles as a filmmaker. Q: What is your film about? The film is about motherhood, which is a very sensitive time in a woman’s life. Everything changes: one’s way of thinking, one’s priorities, and one’s vision on life. In this s...

 Article by Anna Takayama     Turnstunde, from director Hannes Rall, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 Animation category, is about the adventures of a young boy and his unusual nightmare: the gym lesson! Anna Takayama finds out what inspired the director, and more.   Q: What is your film about? A chubby little boy is faced with the the recurring traumatic experience of attending a gym lesson. He is confronted by his evil and slightly sadistic sport...

Article by Anna Takayama    SÆKZI, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 Dramatic Short category, is an honest story of a woman’s battle with her lack of self-confidence through the eyes of her devoted lover. Director Lars T. Moen gives interviewer Anna Takayama his views on women, beauty, ideals, and love in modern times.   Q: What is your film about? Sækzi is a film about self-confidence, and how it shouldn’t matter what you look like. The film port...

Article by Kaly Halkawt     NYU film student, Gabrielle Demeestere, who recently submitted her short The Last Cigarette to ÉCU 2010’s Non-European Dramatic Short category discusses the humorous side of smoking.   Q: Tell me briefly about your film? The Last Cigarette is a short comedy I directed in my first year of graduate school at NYU film school. It tells the story of Lise, a French tourist, who finds herself alienated by her smoking habit in...

Article by Anna Takayama  Four Roses, a recent submission to the ÉCU 2010 European Dramatic Feature category, explores themes of isolation, love, and being. Director Kris De Meester talks to Anna Takayama about the charm of police sirens, the color of black and white, and flying hippos in France.　 　 Q: What is your film about? Four Roses is about everything and nothing, the unbearable lightness of being and the eternal sense of every passing minute. As Henry David Thoreau once w...

By Sophie Nellis     The view of Paris from Parc de Belleville Next stop on our tour of Paris is the area of Belleville. Straddling the 19th and 20th arrondissements, Belleville is located between Rue de Belleville, Rue des Pyrénées, Rue de Ménilmontant and Boulevard de Belleville. It is situated on and around a hill and if you make it to the Parc de Belleville there are some amazing views of the city’s skyline. Belleville began its life as a working cla...

The winner announced In Saturday’s afternoon of 24th of October during the Closing ceremony the decision of Media Jury of 10th Riga’s Nordic Film Days was announced and the winner awarded with the symbolic NorthernTable, which became incarnated into a chamomile ornamented cup. Film Days’ jury - satori.lv journalist Irbe Treile, DJ of Radio SWH Toms Grevins and magazine’s Klubs chief editor Juris Sleiers decided Icelandic director Valdís Óskarsdóttir’s exciting comedy Country...

Until December 31, 2009 we have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. This is the second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here. DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION All films previously unreleased in Spain featuring an original or innovative perspective in terms of either form or content will be admitted for competition. This section has two categories: Fu...

HUNTED BY NIGHT                             The story takes place in the Florida Everglades.  Three men are hunting when an airplane drops bails of drugs on the ground where they are hunting.  The men must decide whether to be law-abiding citizens and report the drugs or take the drugs and sell them for millions of dollars.  Various opportunities present themselves to the hunters for them to leave the drugs behind and make o...

White Men Cant Dance Synopsis This film White Men Cant Dance is a family oriented story based on hope, inspiration, dancing, morals, dignity and ultimately God is brought into this film. A large part of this film is based on a true story. This film White Men Cant Dance is about a very close family that go through some very tough and emotional struggles. The story takes place in a little home with the husband, wife and precious little girl, which the father Pete works at a developmen...

FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE e LETTER, Berlin/Germany November 2009 www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com ******************************************************* CALL FOR ENTRIES http://www.black-international-cinema.com/BIC10/bic_10.htm XXV. Black Internatio...

Dear Butterflies: The time has come and Butterflies, my feature doc about YouTubers, is out there for all of you to see!!! Well, not quite yet...but soon :) Very soon! Butterflies wrapped up the festival season at First Glance Film Fest in Philly by receiving one last Award and we have singed a distribution deal with Journeyman Pictures from UK. They will distribute the film all around the world. You can check updates on their website here: Also, we got some new behind the scenes foota...