Birds Eye View at the Edinburgh Film Festival
June 20th and 22nd
BEV returns to Edinburgh to celebrate the women in the programme and to connect and inspire female filmmaking talent, with these two exciting events:
Saturday 20th June
Birds Eye View: Celebrating Women Filmmakers
1915 - 2030
Delegate Centre Café Bar
Free to all EIFF pass holders
Join us and some of the women with films in the festival for an hour of inspiration, free drinks and female-friendly networking! Special guests confirmed so far include Najwa Najjar (Director - Pomegranate & Myrrh), Lindy Heymann (Director - Kicks), Sacha Horler (lead actress of the Sarah Watt film - My Year Without Sex).
Monday 22nd June
Birds Eye View: Pitch and Connect
1530 - 1700
Sheraton Hotel, Glenkinchie Room
Free to all EIFF pass holders
BEV invites female writing, directing and producing talent to come and have a 15 minute one-to-one session exploring your film ideas with leading industry commissioners and producers. Your chance to get advice from the UK's best.
Confirmed industry experts so far include:
Rebecca Mark Lawson – Managing Executive, Lifesize Pictures – delivering over 200 short films per year for the UK Film Council New Cinema Fund through schemes such as Digital Shorts and Cinema Extreme.
Chris Collins – UK Film Council Development Fund, feature film programme – producing credits include My Summer of Love and Brick Lane.
Lizzie Francke - Development producer for the UKFC's Development Fund. Producing credits include Donkey Punch, Control and This Is England.
Becky Lloyd - Development producer for Scottish Screen.
More will be confirmed in the next couple of days…
To book please email with the subject heading ‘Pitch and Connect' and include a biog/credits list.