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BEV meets Rachel Ward, director of Beautiful Kate

Jul 29, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole

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.

Rachel Ward has starred in numerous international films and television series of the last 20 years, including Against All Odds, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, After Dark, My Sweet, and The Umbrella Woman, to name a few. She has been the recipient of several international drama awards and nominations including a Golden Globe nomination for the mini series On The Beach. In October 2007, the ABC series Rain Shadow, in which she stars, premiered.  In 2000 Rachel put her wealth of experience and knowledge of the art of film making into writing and directing.

Beautiful Kate is Rachel Ward’s feature film directorial debut.  She has previously directed three award-winning short films: Blindman’s Bluff, The Big House and Martha’s New Coat.

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Bluebeard: An Interview with Director and Screenwriter Catherine Breillat

Jul 13, 2010 | No Comments | ByLucy Aronica

bluebeard_quadCatherine Breillat is an award winning French Director - she is also a screenwriter and novelist.  She is known for exploring issues of sexuality, gender conflict and sibling rivalry - and has been the subject of controversy over the years.  Her latest film Bluebeard, is a reworking of a Charles Perrault fable.

Birds Eye View caught up with Catherine to talk about it

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Screen International’s ‘Class of 2010′

Jul 12, 2010 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes

Screen International logoThis year has been a fantastic year for women directors, but just when you think the recognition is rising, Screen International lets the side down.

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ReAnimate Lab kicks off

Jul 7, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole

During our 2010 festival, Birds Eye View launched the latest in our series of training labs for women filmmakers. This time, our focus was animation. Through our 2010 programming research we discovered that although the first ever feature animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed was made by a women, Lottie Reineger…very few women followed in her footsteps. In fact only a handful of feature animations have been made by women since this form came into play. And so, we decided to tackle this head on. Read the full story

London River: An Interview with Screenwriter Zoe Galeron

Jul 5, 2010 | No Comments | ByGergana Barakova

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Zoé Galeron  is a screenwriter from Paris - she co-wrote London River with Director Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle.  Birds Eye View caught up with her to talk about it.

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Leaving: An Interview with Director Catherine Corsini

Jul 5, 2010 | No Comments | ByJuliane Zenke

poster-leaving_quad_aw_cinefullCatherine Corsini, the acclaimed French Writer and Director, brings us Leaving, a film with the amazing Kristin Scott Thomas, Yvan Attal and Sergi Lopez in an explosive relationship triangle this summer.

Birds Eye View was lucky enough to catch up with Catherine in London to talk about her work on Leaving, the reaction of audiences around the world and how open the arts world really is to women writers and directors.

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