Eric Elléna is a French filmmaker.

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 Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi played the lead role. The 24 films were then shown at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...

as part of an anti-drug awareness raising campaign ''

Drug Scenes ''Drug Scenes'' (original French title ''Scénarios sur la drogue'', also titled ''Drugs!'') is an omnibus film (2000) of 24 French short films depicting drug abuse. Varying in length from three to seven minutes, they showed in movie theaters befo ...

'' (Original French title:''Scénarios sur la Drogue''). He was a producer on '' The Universe of Keith Haring'', 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

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. For '' The Jill & Tony Curtis Story'', 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 ''I Remember Better When I Paint'' is a feature length international documentary film about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies in people with Alzheimer's disease and how these approaches can change the way the disease is view ...

''. The film, inspired by the story of

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, focuses on how the creative arts can help

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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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