First Weekenders Club

The Birds Eye View First Weekenders Club promotes the all-important opening weekend of feature films created by women.

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WHY? HOW?...

Find out why supporting women filmmakers on their opening weekend is so important and how we can show the love simply by going to see their films.

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Bluebeard

16th July 2010

Directed by Catherine Breillat

In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie‐Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry.

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Beautiful Kate

30th July 2010

Directed by Rachel Ward

Beautiful Kate is an evocative tale of love and desire.  The film recounts the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation, interwoven with the emotional journey of reconciliation between a father and son.  Shot through with an ethereal beauty, the past is brought sharply into focus as guilt and recriminations finally give way to forgiveness.

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Pianomania

20th August 2010

Co-Directed by Lilian Franck

The award-winning film Pianomania follows Stefan Knüpfer, Steinway & Sons' Master Tuner in Vienna, as he works with some of the world's best-known concert pianists, including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lang Lang and Alfred Brendel. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities and compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection, and finally to get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion, and an extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds.

"The Birds Eye View First Weekenders Club is an excellent initiative- reminding audiences of their power to make a difference at the box office and to influence the success of women directed features"
Gurinder Chadha

"By going to see films made by women on their first weekend, women could eventually make a difference to the numbers of stories told by women that we are able to see any night of the week. "
Natasha Walter, The Guardian