BEV celebrates & supports international women filmmakers. The flagship BEV Film Festival runs at London's BFI Southbank and ICA, with exclusive previews, shorts, retrospectives, training and cutting-edge live performances.
Our amazing retrospective programmers, Kelly Robinson and Ingrid Stigsdotter, give us some insight into some of cinemas first celebrities and most alluring vamps.
Greta Garbo
At a time when complaints about our celebrity-obsessed society seem to be everywhere, it is worth reminding ourselves that sensationalism has played an important part in film culture for a very long time. Among the actresses celebrated in this retrospective, Greta Garbo (The Temptress) is perhaps the one name that almost everyone still seems to recognise, but during the silent era, several of the stars in our programme were A-list celebrities.
Theda Bara
Theda Bara (A Fool There Was) was the first actress to establish a vamp persona on film and the first publicity-created star. Although Bara was American she was presented as an exotic French-Italian who had spent her childhood near the Sphinx in Egypt. Read the full story
Gosh! We’ve been so busy at BEV HQ that we completely forgot to tell all you bloggy readers about our gorgeous new festival trailer!
Spawned from a partnership between Open Book (supplying the gorgeous animated sequences), and Red Banana Productions (providing their slick editing skills), the Birds Eye View film festival 2009 trailer is a 1 minute corker of a video that gives you a short, sweet glimpse at the superb quality of talent gracing the screens at this year’s festival.
So here it is folks, sit back and enjoy the tease…
(Make sure you have selected HQ – High Quality from the little button in the bottom right of the player, to get full visual glory)
Blog about it, email it to your friends, stick it up on your Facebook, MySpace, Bebo… and give us a little tweet!!
And just want to say a massive thank you to all the wonderful and talented filmmakers that got in touch with us when we were looking for someone to produce the trailer. We had an overwhelming response and it was brilliant to see such support and enthusiasm.
