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.

Watch our exclusive interview here.

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

She Writes meets again…

Jun 30, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole

The lucky participants
The lucky participants with Amy and The Script Factory

Our She Writers are back together for their second workshop session at the end of this week. The 11 have already spent a weekend together on a residential course with Birds Eye View and The Script Factory back in May. This week they will here from the cream of the crop from the film industry who will share their experiences and knowledge with our lucky ladies. Read the full story

BEV returns from EIFF

Jun 30, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole

 

'The Bigelow Effect' Panelists

'The Bigelow Effect' Panelists

 As Edinburgh Festival comes to a close, I return to BEV HQ after a heavy absorption of international film-making gems, in the delights of Scotland. I was seriously impressed before I arrived on just how many films made by women had made the line-up. Not talking hundreds, but a good 25%. I now happily return to London with a list of one’s-to-watch in my pocket. Read the full story

Does it matter that there are no women up for the Palme d Or?

May 18, 2010 | No Comments | ByAmy Mole

Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

The media frenzy around Cannes Film Festival is always significant. But with such an extreme lack of women in competition this year the hype is even more prominent and the question is appearing everywhere: Why is there a lack of women directors in Cannes? At last a dialogue has started to address the questions we are all asking!  And none other than the Birds Eye View Founder and Director was called in to debate the question with the Online Guardian Film Editor, Catherine Shoard. This article was in the Observer Review on 16th May 2010. Read the full story

Cannes Film Festival Announce Line-up lacking ladies

Apr 16, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByAmy Mole

cannes2010poster7Yes it is true that this year has been a great year for women directors. And yes the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow earlier last month. But at the same time we know that since the recession there are less women working in the industry. And just to stress this point further….as Cannes Film Festival announce their line up for 2010, we see that there are in fact no women in the competition category. Although Agnes Kocsis represents women’s cinematic vision with Adrienn Pal in the category of Un Certain Regard, and two female directors appear in the Special Screenings category - Sophie Fiennes with Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow and Sabina Guzzanti with Draquila - L’Italia Che Trema, there are absolutely no women in competition. I was genuinely quite startled as I continued to check through the list of names, but mostly saddened that such a significant festival on the film calendar lacks diversity to such a degree.  So many female directors have told BEV that they hope Kathryn Bigelows win represents something of a ‘watershed’ and yet this list suggests otherwise. Lucky that BEV is here eh?

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