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Melbourne Airport Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award
Melbourne International Film Festival, 2005
Q: Did you have any idea that you would win the Melbourne Airport Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award?
ES: No idea at all... Well actually they told me the day before in case I decided to skip town…it was great, a real honour which has been a pleasure to have attached to my name.
Q: Why did you decide to become a filmmaker?
ES: I don't know if I ever decided as such, I think I am always deciding. I can say that all the art forms that fascinate me can so perfectly harmonise in film, that it made sense to follow the clues. And of course stories, of all kinds, but the stranger the better.
Q: What’s special about the Melbourne International Film Festival?
ES: Everything... the atmosphere of winter, the excitement, the programs, all that black, the boost and great programs for filmmakers such as Accelerator and indulgence in film. For me going at MIFF becomes an event that fuels your inspiration, and as a filmmaker, you need refueling often!
Q: What’s the plan for 2007-2008?
ES: Working on my first feature... of course. I am in Germany at the moment actually trying to make a film about molecular biology and genetics, scientists as subjects and all that fun kooky stuff.
Q: Who is your favourite director?
ES: Well, I like Cronenberg for his consistency, imagination, evolution and uniqueness, but I like a lot of directors as I like many types of film, I am also a great admirer of director's such as Peter Weir, Roman Polanski and Milos Forman.
Q: Which do you prefer: Writing or Directing?
ES: Both are equally challenging and rewarding, although the thrill of finishing a script is short lived once you realise you still have to make the film, the thrill of finishing the film is longer lived.... If it is a good film!
Q: Who or what inspires your work?
ES: Other filmmakers, people in general, the desire to experiment with story form and to walk that line between dreams. Actually I don't remember dreams so for me writing, directing, making puppets, things like this are a way to day dream- I seem to have no problem with waking dreams.
Q: Favourite film and why?
ES: Too hard, too many -but I love Videodrome by Cronenberg, and if you like that film you are with me, and the rest of you will just never understand...
Q: Best and worst things about being a filmmaker?
ES: That it is very hard work, and that it is very hard work.
Q: Interests outside of movie-making?
ES: I once tried to play squash regularly...
Since winning the award, Eron has travelled the world and his films have screened and won prizes at prestigious international film festivals such as, Sundance, Berlin, Telluride, Chicago, Hawaii and Melbourne. Recently Eron been based in Germany working on his first feature film Errors of the Human Body. Eron has also directed the short film William (2006), which has been selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival 2007.
As part of his research for Errors of the Human Body, Eron has taken up an artist-in-residency at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden observing their ground-breaking work on cell and developmental biology.
Eron is a writer/director and the 2005 winner of the Melbourne Airport Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award. His winning film Fish is the story of a boy that makes treasure out of trash, who meets a girl who thinks she is.
Eron has an eclectic background in puppetry, animation, and cinematography which has strongly informed his films to date.
