Paris through the lens of a movie director
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Meet Scott Hillier, an Australian movie director in Paris, who runs the European Independant Film Festival (the ÉCU).
He talks of the iconic light in the city of Paris, his film festival, and his exploits around the world as a director and war photographer.
Find out more about the annual Film Festival here, 2024 marks the 19th festival, and it runs on April 19th, 20th, and 21st in Montparnasse.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, Oliver G here from the Earful Tower. |
| 0:02.8 | This is a chat with Australian movie director and war photographer Scott Hillier, who runs the European Independent Film Festival, which this year is celebrating 19 years. |
| 0:14.8 | You can go to Montparnasse and watch it on the 19th, 20th and 21st of April. |
| 0:19.2 | In fact, I've even got some free tickets. I say at the end of the |
| 0:22.5 | episode how you can get them if you're quick. Short note, Scott is a, as I said, a war photographer. |
| 0:30.2 | He has seen some things and he mentions a few things in this episode, which if you're a sensitive |
| 0:36.4 | listener, it might not be for you. But we do talk a lot |
| 0:40.2 | about Paris, but we do talk about September 11 where he was filming. We talk about Africa. We talk |
| 0:47.0 | about Russia. We talk about Oles. It's a very wide-ranging conversation. And I thought it was |
| 0:53.1 | very interesting indeed. I hope you do too. |
| 0:55.9 | Let's get into the episode with some music from Press Maxon and I want to send out a huge thanks |
| 1:00.9 | to all the Patrial members who keep this boat floating. Let's get into it. Scott Hillier, how you doing? |
| 1:20.1 | I'm doing great, man. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you very much for inviting me along. |
| 1:22.3 | It's my great pleasure. |
| 1:23.5 | I want to start with your surname. |
| 1:25.4 | Hillia. |
| 1:26.2 | I love it. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, well, it's very, very weird. It's a French background, they all say. I want to start with your surname. Hilia. I love it. Yeah. Well, it's very, very weird. It's |
| 1:29.3 | a French background, they all say. I didn't even think. Yeah, my wife and my daughter go, |
| 1:33.8 | Ili. So it sort of works just on it. It's almost confusing because it sounds like Ilya. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah. Like, there is a. There is a. Yeah. Hilia. It's a great, it's a great, Scott Hilia, it's good name. |
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