The Birds Eye View First Weekenders Club promotes the opening weekends of feature films directed by women.

The success of a movie depends to a ridiculous extent on its opening weekend. To ensure we have a greater diversity of films in the cinema, we need to be canny audiences and wise up to the power of our ticket-buying. If women-directed features get good First Weekend audiences, those filmmakers are more likely to get the next film funded, and on we go...

Don't believe us? Well, maybe you'll believe Peter Bradshaw in his Guardian article Opening Weekend Psychosis.

Our FIRST First Weekenders Club Film: 2 DAYS IN PARIS dir Julie Delpy

August 31st - Sept 2nd

The fantastic Julie Delpy is known and loved world-wide for her outstanding performances in a range of films from Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, to Before Sunrise and ER. She is now juggling roles behind & in front of the camera in her first feature as a director (and star!). The much-anticipated rom-com 2 DAYS IN PARIS opens in a cinema near you AUGUST 31st 2007.

Check your local cinema listings and buy your tickets now!

EXCLUSIVE! BIRDS EYE VIEW MEETS JULIE DELPY:
To watch interview CLICK HERE or click below!

We caught up with actress & director Julie Delpy at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to film an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. You can find this on the the Birds Eye View Film Fest Youtube Channel or by clicking on the link above.

CRITICS RAVE ABOUT 2 DAYS IN PARIS:

"Audacious! A biting romantic comedy... Reveals more about emotinoal and sexual chemistry than any film I can recall." Stephen Nolden, New York Times

"Fearlessly Original and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny."
Karen Durlin, Elle Magazine

"Charming and Very Funny! Julie Delpy proves herself a talented filmmaker"
Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair

" Bawky, thoughtful, farcical, political and romantic, 2 Days in Paris is a completely winning comic treat!"
Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine

For more info see www.2daysinparisthefilm.com