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.
American Teen is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit from Director Nanette Burstein, following the lives of five teenagers through their senior year of high school in a small town in Indiana. It screened at the BEV festival in March this year, followed by a fantastic Director Q&A with Nanette Burstein via video link-up to the States. Audiences loved it!
COMPETITION: To celebrate the release of American Teen on DVD Birds Eye View has five copies to give away to our lucky blog readers. Don’t miss out! Read on for details…
On 4th February 2009, the Last Laugh participants pitched 23 ideas to Warp X. We’re very excited to let you know that four projects have been selected for development. These are:
To build on our Screen Seductresses theme that is making this festival the sexiest yet, and taking spirit of our Sex on Screen debate happening this Wednesday, we are giving away copies of In Bed With – “a unique, sometimes humorous, often wicked and totally sizzling collection of unashamedly sexy bedtime stories by bestselling, award-winning and well-known novelists” (Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith et al).
We invited the co-authors, Maggie Alderson and Jessica Adams, onto our blog. Maggie answered our questions, and Jessica wrote a few words about her sexiest moment in cinema and why they have created In Bed With.
To have a chance of winning a book, you need to tell us what YOUR favourite erotic moment in cinema is, by commenting on this blog, in which the team at BEV HQ revealed our choices…
“Real World is a pioneering documentary scheme to create and distribute positive images of women in the developing world. Filmmakers collaborated with academics to find stories in their chosen region.
They received training to develop their skills, and £20k to make a series of innovative short documentaries. 2 sets of films have been produced so far. They are 12 mins long each, about Brazil and Palestine, by Kat Mansoor (Animal Monday) and Paulino Tervo.
This little rehearsal video just came through from The Monroe Transfer who are performing live to Pandora’s Box on Wed 11 March 6pm at the BFI Southbank.
This is just a very small glimpse of the amazing musical talent that will be accompanying the classic silent film starring iconic Louise Brooks.
There a just a few tickets left now so hurry if you want to see this unique event!
Mary Harron, the wonderful director behind American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page and I Shot Andy Warhol, touched down in the UK last night to attend her Masterclass and Retrospective at the festival this year. She is very very cool, and we just couldn’t resist asking her a few little questions before you can do the same at her events this weekend…
Rachel Millward: We are so excited that you are coming to the festival! We know that you will bring huge amounts of inspiration and learning to our audiences and aspiring filmmakers. But, from your side – what single thing would you like to leave behind / give to our London audience?
Mary Harron: A sense of determination.
All your films grapple with the implications of gender. Has this affected your audience?
It sometimes seems that women don’t get ‘American Psycho’ and men don’t get Bettie Page. That’s not always true, of course. But the films do divide people.
American Teen is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit from Director Nanette Burstein, following the lives of five teenagers through their senior year of high school in a small town in Indiana. It screened at the BEV festival in March this year, followed by a fantastic Director Q&A with Nanette Burstein via video link-up to the States. Audiences loved it!
To build on our 
Mary Harron, the wonderful director behind American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page and I Shot Andy Warhol, touched down in the UK last night to attend her
