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Eric Elléna is a French film maker.


Career

As a director his films include '' The Last Trackers of the Outback'', which won the Public’s Choice Award at the 2008 FIFO Pacific International Documentary Film Festival in
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and ''The Long March of Bob Slaughter''. In 2000, his script ''Drugstore'' was one of 24 scripts selected from a regional French competition of 3,600 entries to be produced as a short film. His script was directed by Marion Vernoux and actress
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played the lead role. The 24 films were then was shown at the
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as part of an anti-drug awareness raising campaign '' Drug Scenes'' (Original French title:''Scénarios sur la Drogue''). He was a producer on ''
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'', a documentary by the filmmaker Christina Clausen. In the film, the legacy of
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is resurrected through colorful archival footage and remembered by friends and admirers such as artists
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and
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, gallery owners Jeffrey Deitch and
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, and the choreographer Bill T. Jones. For ''
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'', he served as an executive producer and as a co-producer on ''Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom''. He is co-director of the documentary '' I Remember Better When I Paint''. The film, inspired by the story of Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos), focuses on how the creative arts can help Alzheimer's patients re-engage in life. A French version of the film "Je me souviens mieux quand je peins" was released as part of the French Alzheimer Association's activities on World Alzheimer's Day in September 2009. Extracts from "Je me souviens mieux quand je peins" were featured on
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television and screened for the International Health Film Festival in
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. He is a producer on '' Five Roads to Freedom: From Apartheid to the World Cup'' a documentary released in 2010 that looks at the revolutionary transformation in
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through the eyes of five men and women who lived under the shadow of
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.


References


External links

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Interview with Eric Ellena
May 27, 2010 on
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