Well here it is, the final video report from me. And of course, ’tis a vid of the Closing Night Party, and what fun was to be had! Dressing up, festival awards, photos, oodles of talent, dancing… Notice my slight nervousness and awe when talking to Sally Philips and Andrea Riseborough, and watch out for Hayley Atwell’s very cute dog. Plus an attempted one take wonder of all the team just before we had our photo taken (cue cheesy pic below…).
Thursday there was only one event that was really on my mind…. the BEV/WarpX Last Laugh Comedy Night at the Roxy. Very simply because my short film was showing and there would be lots of very funny women that I admire, or at least was excited about seeing for the first time and was consequently very inspired. Though I was gutted that I wasn’t able to go to Alraune as well, which was apparently very amazing.
Wednesday I bagged a ticket for The Imaginarium, that had sold out. I was last in, with the remaining seat conveniently in the front row, in easy dancing reach of all the panellists and the very capable (and entertaining) event host James Mullighan, from one of BEV’s festival partners - Shooting People.
My easy heckling position meaning I had a good view of the guests presenting their intriguing dance motion capture film project - filmmakers Bert and Bertie, Centroid, and English National Ballet. But for some reason the sound didn’t pick up too well on video, so I grabbed duo Bert and Bertie in the bar straight afterwards for a quick twirl of their hats, and a snappy digest of how they had found presenting their work to a captivated audience.
On Tuesday my hosting skills (and general knowledge/experience/enthusiasm for the digital advertising world) were called upon, to welcome the filmmakers and introduce for the She Says: Meet the Advertisers event.
But beforehand I wanted to get in on the action at Connecting Voices: Films from the Commonwealth and arrived at the ICA just in time to meet the two filmmakers who had travelled all the way from India and Trinidad & Tobago - Leena Manimekalai and Camille Selvon Abrahams (respectively) - for the screening of their films. They were both super lovely and an exciting highlight was meeting Camille’s friend and filmmaker Horace Ové, who holds the Guinness World Record for the first Black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film Pressure.
Still on a mission to report back from the festival (yes those remaining videos will be coming soon!) I asked the team to tell us their favourite moment, which as you can imagine is a rather tough challenge when you were around for the entire stretch of 9 days and went to so many super dooper events and talked to lots of very charming inspiring people - just where to begin??…
Monday was another busy day, so busy, ahem, that I only really managed to capture one event with enough content to keep you BEV blog readers interested…
Below is a video from the Peace Mission: Welcome to Nollywood screening. The event included a Q&A with the amazing Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima, one of Nollywood’s top producers who features in the documentary, which was about (yes, you’ve guessed it) Nollywood - the third largest film industry. I was particularly excited because this event was hosted by Zina Saro Wiwa, who was one of my favourite presenters on The Culture Show.
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