EICAR students at the Tous HanScène competition

Since 2012, the TREMPLIN Handicap® association has been organizing the Tous HanScène® Video Competition, open to post-secondary students. Teams must create a video of up to 3 minutes on the theme of disability, and four EICAR students have taken on the challenge.

A strong commitment to disability

More than just a competition highlighting disability through cinema, Tous HanScène, through the organizing association TREMPLIN Handicap®, aims to:

• Encourage more high school students with disabilities to pursue higher education
• Increase the accessibility of campuses and curricula in higher education institutions for students with disabilities
• Facilitate companies' recruitment of people with disabilities by providing them with post-secondary education qualifications.

Several prizes are awarded: the Coup de Cœur and Public prizes by the jury, two Cinema prizes awarded by a figure from the film industry, and a prize for each of the seven categories available to participants: Art and Essay, Humor, Technological Innovation, Sport, Student Life, Professional Life, and Daily Life.

There is also a special distinction: the Mobilization Prize by TREMPLIN Handicap®. The institutions that mobilize the most voters receive a grant to fund a project related to disability.

Shared values

With a few partners, EICAR regularly offers its students projects that use cinema to serve various causes: « Action Enfance fait son cinéma », the citizen contest Mlle Pitch Awards, and Tous HanScène…

For the 2024 edition, the four students came from the Filmmaking and Sound & Music programs:

• Lucie JOUIN, Bachelor 2 Filmmaking student
• Alan KAYIS, Bachelor 2 Filmmaking student
• Tristan BANC BAGUR, Bachelor 1 Sound – Sound Engineer & Sound Editing student
• Antoine JURY, Bachelor 2 Filmmaking student

Their short film can be viewed here 👉 "Les Nuances du Ciel"

EICAR Students awarded

Nominated in the Sport category, the short film won first prize, awarded by the Ministry of Armed Forces and Accor.

We spoke with Lucie JOUIN, who told us more about the behind-the-scenes of this adventure.

What motivated you to participate in this competition?

What motivated us to enter the competition was, firstly, the challenge and doing something new with a new team I was meeting for the first time. Also, the festival's message about disability touched me, so I decided to go for it.

How did you organize the writing and directing of the short film as a team?

The competition rules stated that we could have a maximum of four people in the technical team, so we had Tristan on sound and composition, Antoine on editing and color grading, Alan on camera and production, and myself on directing and writing. Alan and I met to find locations and actors, and then we took a two-day weekend in Val d'Oise to shoot at a stadium after getting the necessary permissions.

What were your biggest challenges in making this film?

The shoot took place in the rain, and we had a few struggles, but it all worked out. In post-production, we had to fix a lot of issues with the sound, but overall, it went well for a small team with limited resources.

Your thoughts?

Honestly, we didn’t expect to win a prize on our first try, especially in our first year. But in the end, it was just about trying and giving it our all. It may sound a bit pretentious, but that’s really what you need to do if you want to succeed: try, and go for it!

This isn’t the first time EICAR students have won awards at this competition. In 2016, the team led by Manon Fourquaux (second-year Filmmaking student) won the Jury Prize in the Culture category for the short film Le Musée. In 2022, Mariana Matos' team (Bachelor 2 Filmmaking) received the First Prize in the Daily Life category for their short film Le diner.