Echoes is Perrine Lievois’ first feature film. It went into International Film Festivals around the world and won the Sandcastle award for Best Feature Film at the Moondance Film Festival in 2008.
For more details about Echoes, please see the Withoutabox Press Kit
Perrine Lievois’ Testimonial :
Tiphaine was more than the lead actress : she took part in the project from the start, and had a big role in making this adventure happen :
There was a lot of improvisation during the shooting of the film, both in front and behind the camera, and Tiphaine was capable of adding a lot of life and creativity. Some crucial scenes in the films where created from her ideas of improvisation on the day. (like the conductor’s scene).
Once the film finished, she found plenty of ways to help us :
- As we didn’t speak enough english at the time, she got in charge of translating the script to create subtitles, and managed to find english translater to help her make it perfect.
- When we got stuck for one music back ground, and even though she was then traveling in Canada, she managed to find a group ready to record a song that would fit our needs in Montreal, and had it sent to us. (The scene where Alize runs after the bus).
- As soon as the film was finalized, she took care of all the international entrances to festivals. Thanks to her work, Echoes has been part of the Official Selection of 10 festivals outside of France, in the USA, England and South Korea.
- When we went to Boulder, Colorado, to claim our Winning Price as Best Feature Film, she came with us and took care of all the translation needs.
- Last April, during the End Of The Pier Film Festival, where she went to represent us, she found a sales representative interested in distributing the film to Scandinavian countries, ans is still working with him to make the sales happen.
Because she believed in our project, Tiphaine Siovel became much more than a talented actress, she became part of the core team, and thanks to her, the film has already had some good successes and awaiting more…
Perrine Lievois
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Production note
This is the story of the awakening of a relationship between a woman and Nature. The main character of the film is a young woman who finds herself lost in a nature reserve, facing the elements alone. Instinctively, a dialogue begins.
Like the main character, we have tried to follow our intuition, starting with a very simple synopsis, in order to let ourselves be guided, and therefore offer a ?mise en scene experience? rather than the application of a scenario.
Our objective was to be able to capture a sense of what the environment offers us and to film our responses.
So we let ourselves be guided by the weather, the tides, and whatever consequences they might have on us. The result is the echo that nature had on our consciousness during the time of filming.
In order to have all the freedom possible, we shot with a reduced crew, three or four people at most, with no funding nor time limit.
The scenes which presented themselves during the shooting were developed to a narrative form during the editing process. In this way we have tried to depict our impression with as little intellectualisation as possible.
News & Reviews
“Echoes of Impressionism”
august 2008 ()
Presentation of our film for the Moondance Film Festival where we won the Sandcastle price for best feature film
http://www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/festivities/articles/lievois_donfayel_echoes
