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13-11-2008

EFC students make video album for Diefenbach

(Picture above: Cover of Diefenbach's latest album "Dark Spinner")

125 students from the European Film College and Performers House and 4 band members. 24 hours and a Halloween party later, 15 music videos were shot and ready for post production.

EFC principal Søren Høy and Danish success band Diefenbach made this fall an extraordinary collaboration happen. EFC's students would get the chance to make videos for all tracks on Diefenbach's brand new album, Dark Spinner, released October 27th on A:larm Records. To help out with the acting and dancing 14 students from Performers House joined the film crews.

The videos went into pre production on the day the album was in stores all around the country, and will finish post this week. The videos will be presented to the record label and the band's management - and will soon be available on various web pages including here at europeanfilmcollege.com.


125 film and performance students and 4 band members. 24 hours and a Halloween party later, 15 music videos were shot and ready for post production.
EFC has just signed a deal for the rights to adapt a critically acclaimed short story novel by play and film writer Ole Meldgaard. The EFC students will re-write and transform the short stories into 5 minute films late November and beginning of December 2008.
Kenneth Anger, a pioneer in art cinema and the Occult, recently visited Copenhagen. According to director Martin Scorsese Anger is "a unique filmmaker, an artist of exceptional imagination". EFC students documented the event.
We are looking for a new collegue to develop our event and kitchen activities.
Vi leder efter en ny kollega, som kan udvikle vores event- og køkken-aktiviteter.
Still from "Die Fälscher"
The producers of "Die Fälscher" (The Counterfeiters), Babette Schröder and Nina Bohlmann, will visit the European Film College in January 2009. "Die Fälscher" won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and Babette and Nina will give the EFC-students an up-to-date outline of European cinema.
On the first of September we welcomed our new students representing 21 nationalities and 111 personalities but with one thing in common: They all love film and they all want to spend the next 8,5 months making as many of them as possible.
Petru Maier, cinematography teacher at the EFC, took part in a training course arranged by the HFF Konrad Wolf Academy and the EU Media Programme, MedienBoard Berlin-Brandenburg and EBU. He's already looking forward to next year's event, and gives an overview of the 2008-agenda.
Rasmus Heide directing Blå Mænd
This summer's most successful Danish film, Blå mænd (Blue men) is directed by former EFC-student Rasmus Heide, who visited the EFC to present and talk about the film on Friday the 12th of September.
We're happy to announce that Philippe Lesage, a highly creative and vigorous Canadian documentarist, has been hired to teach documentary to the students at the European Film College. Philippe was a student at the EFC from 1998/1999 and since then he has been working around the subject of documentary film in different parts of the world.
On the 5th of August some of the best films produced at the European Film College during the course of 2007/2008 were screened in Grand - the best art cinema in Copenhagen. Almost 100 former or future film students, relatives and friends attended the event.
Camera-freaks among our new students will be thrilled to know that we've just purchased 10 new Panasonic AG-HPX500E high definition cameras. This will definitely enhance the pleasure of camera-classes and shootings and also please connoisseurs of new technology.
Loads of films made during the course of 07-08 have just been uploaded! Go through the list and be amazed at the progression of skills from the first and rather helpless shooting games all the way to the highlights of final projects.
EFC advert on a Spotvision screen in Cannes, May 2008
Together with brands such as X-files, Indiana Jones and L'oeral the European Film College did some high-profile marketing at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This was all thanks to the work of two Norwegian students who put together a fine EFC-advert (and a couple of connections in Cannes!).
Still from "Parents" by Icelandic director Ragnar Bragason
Thomas Vinterberg, Ragnar Bragason and Clement Kjærsgaard are some of the names on the newly announced list of guest lecturers visiting the EFC during the course of fall 08-spring 09. We have worked hard to compile visitors representing all aspects of filmmaking and corners of the public debate.
EFC-cinematography teacher Petru Maier has just received a honorable mention in the prestigious competition PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris.
Still from "Reprise"
Former student at the European Film College Joachim Trier's feature debut "Reprise" is now out in cinemas across America.
Front page of Final Cut 2007/2008
Final Cut - the yearbook of the European Film College - 2007/2008 has just been released. We're happy to present a new and handy format and a sophisticated new layout. Another innovation is individual photos and micro-interview with every single student of the 2007/2008 intake.
Students from the film college filmed a sold-out event with Mexican sound-artist Murcof in the Marble Church of Copenhagen. The marble dome was a challenging location but the students managed to bring back recordings for a unique concert video.
Two current EFC students, Rick Burnham and Søren Højen, got through the eye of the needle and will pursue an acting career at well known Stella Adler Acting Academy in New York when they leave the European Film College.
It's over! After 5 weeks of hard work, 12 doc projects have been edited down from over 24 hours of material to make up a full 90 minute evening's entertainment in Big Bear with invited guests.
Rick Senat, former head of Warner Bros Europe for 25 years, visited the European Film College on Saturday 1st. March to give a lecture on the history of Warner Bros and the mechanics of an international production company.
23-year old Kaywan Mohsen came to Denmark in the mid 80ties with his parents as refugees from Afganistan and Iran respectively. He grew up in a milieu that most Danes know very little about - with violence and crime as natural components. End February 08 he visited the European Film College to give an exclusive intro and screening of his second film Eye for Eye.
Sean McAllister
End January we enjoyed the visit of two Special Guests to the EFC. Dola Bonfils and Sean McAllister - a key figure in the Danish Documentary business and an award-winning English filmmaker respectively.