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Did you always want to follow into the family business? I have always loved fi lms and the idea of making them but when I was younger I wanted to be a sportsman. Until the age of 16 I played competitive golf and reached a point where I had to choose between staying with my family in the UK and moving to a golf academy in America. I chose to stay with my family, which allowed me to complete my education. Always knowing I wanted to make fi lms, I then went to RADA to learn the process from the inside out. I love actors and acting and felt it was my duty to understand the craft of it so I could become the best fi lmmaker possible. T ere is no better place than RADA and without my education there I wouldn’t feel qualifi ed to direct and work with actors with conviction.


Moving between the UK and USA you discovered a love of football. Did you want to become professional? I love football, both watching and playing, but I never played to a standard that made me dream of it becoming my profession. In America, soccer as they call it there is the biggest sport at school level and I played there up to the age of eight in the AYSO, the American Youth Soccer Organisation.


How do you like to relax? I love all sports. I play tennis and golf a lot. I also watch plenty of fi lms, normally I watch at least one a day. Spending time with my family and friends is very important to me. If I can combine all of this together, which I often do,


then I consider it time well spent.


What fi rst caught your interest about fi lm making? It was an organic coming together of all of the diff erent factors of fi lm. Initially it was writing - I’ve enjoyed writing since I was a kid, it was my best subject at school. I then became really interested in music, then photography, and all the while I loved watching fi lms. I realised that a fi lm is all of these things combined and more. T e most important thing to consider when making a fi lm is that everything matters. All aspects of fi lmmaking must come together to create the fi nished piece. It’s much like a football team, all of the players have diff erent positions and roles to play to fulfi l the ultimate goal of scoring more goals than you concede. But not one player is more important than the other.


Can you tell us a little bit about the new fi lm project? It’s called Death of a Farmer. It’s a micro budget feature fi lm that we made for £30,000. Starring in the fi lm is my dad Trevor Eve, my mother (a proud Liverpudlian) Sharon Maughan and Anthony Head. T e rest of the cast are either made up of amazing actors who were in my year at RADA, or friends. We shot it over a three week period in June 2012. It then took a further nine months to complete all of the post production work. My sister Alice Eve made up one third of the producing team alongside myself and Dalton Deverell, who was also in my year at RADA. In short, it’s the story of the last three days of a man’s life - Gordon. He is a widower without a family of his own, so when a young couple and their baby son move into his village, Gordon sees an opportunity to fulfi l his lifelong dream of being part of a family.


Who inspires you? Anything and everything can inspire me but my main man is Stanley Kubrick. His fi lms are unique and I will watch them over and over. I also love music and have written a feature fi lm inspired by the music of the sixties, T e Beatles being a huge inspiration to me. In fact my sister recently shot a cameo in Paul


McCartney’s new music video and my brother, who is a musician and a Beatles fanatic, went along with her to the set. Being in the presence of Sir Paul was a major event for them both and I’m still wondering where my invitation from Alice went missing.


What are your dreams for the future in the fi lm industry? To always make fi lms that people want to see and to always learn more about fi lmmaking. I wasn’t a great student at school, I didn’t have an appetite to learn what the teacher was teaching. But now I have learned how to learn and don’t ever want to stop making fi lms and keep discovering new ways of making them along the way.


Liverpool Film Festival launched recently. What does this mean to you as a fi lm maker? Anything that celebrates fi lm is a great thing, made even greater by the fact that a major city of the world has their own festival, which will only bring more attention to the fi lms that participate.


Is the support of Mum and Dad crucial to what you’re doing? T eir support is very important to me. In fact, I value their opinions and their skills so much that we have opened a fi lm production company together. It involves all three siblings and is appropriately called Eve & Eve & Eve. You can visit our website www.eve-eve-eve.com and keep up to date with our upcoming projects.


Is there a love in your life and if so are they in the industry and supportive? T ere is and I’m a lucky man. We met at RADA. She’s hugely supportive and is an actor.


When can we expect to see the fi lm and some of your work? Death of a Farmer is currently playing at festivals. We just returned from a hugely successful screening at the Dinard Film Festival in France. You will be able to see the fi lm very soon. I’m currently in pre-production for my next fi lm, which stars my sister Alice Eve. I’m very excited about it.


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