We caught up with experimental vocal trio Juice ahead of their live musical accompaniment to The Danger Girl as part of the double bill withI Don’t Want to be a Man! accompanied by Zoe RahmanBirds Eye View Sound & Silents Season this May. They talk to us about what inspires them, writing music for film, the gender gap in the music industry when it comes to composers, what their dream score would be and what they are up to at the moment.
BEV were lucky enough to get an exclusive interviewSusanna White, acclaimed director of multi award-winning series Bleak House, Jane Eyre and Generation Kill to name but a few. Most recently she made her first foray into feature film: Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang. We talked to her aboutthe film, her chameleon like ability to portray different Worlds in her work so successfully, her career to date and why she thinks she has only just directed her first feature film. Dubbed by many publications ‘the British Bigelow’ she also talks to us about the challenges of being a woman in a male dominated industry and encouragingly comments “hopefully we are at a watershed moment.”
Watch our interview below. Watch the Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang trailer here.
Photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat is one of the world’s most respected Iranian artists. Among her best known works are Women of Allah (1990), Turbulent (1998) and Rapture (1999). Neshat is based in New York and exhibits internationally. Following several short films, Women Without Men is Neshat’s first feature, and has already won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
We were lucky enough to catch her for a video interview at Artifical Eye’s HQ when she was in London for the UK Premeiere of Women Without Men at the London Film Festival in October 2009. On the eve of the film’s opening screening which BEV are co-presenting at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival we though we would share it.
On Saturday 6th February myself and Julia (also of Birds Eye View) approached a sports centre in Tottenham Hale with our BYOB in our hands and the anticipation of the unknown ahead of us.
We caught up with Dr Barbara Lippe (known as Babsi), Art Director & Consultant of Papermint, a fascinating indie games company, who have created an all-new animated virtual world which combines advanced casual gaming and social networking. Babsi and Chief Technical Officer, Claudia will be hosting a live game development session at the festival on Saturday 6th March as part of Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010’s Innovation strand.Read the full story
Last night Kathryn Bigelow picked up Best Film & Best Director for The Hurt Locker, Andrea Arnold won Outstanding British Film for Fish Tank, Martina Amati was awarded for Best Short for I Do Air and Best Short Animation went to Emma Lazenby and Sally Arthur for Mother of Many. Congratulations to all these winners! Yesterday really was a night to be celebrated for women in film.
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