Mar 17, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Lucy Walker, director of Countdown to Zero
In a first for Birds Eye View, last night’s Bloody Women Panel Debate was streamed live online to hundreds of online viewers. Rounding off our programme of work looking at the role of women in the development of horror cinema, panellists included Emily Booth, a presenter for our media partner actress The Horror Channel and Alan Jones of programme partner actress FrightFest. Elsewhere, we were thrilled to present Oscar nominee and Berlin and Sundance winner Lucy Walker‘s Countdown to Zero.
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Mar 16, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Celia Imrie
Last night saw a star-studded turn-out in support of our She Writes lab for emerging female screenwriters. A celebratory evening at BAFTA commemorated the end of the year-long development project, in association with the Script Factory, with a screenplay reading starring Celia Imrie, Frances Barber, Dudley Sutton and Paula Wilcox among others. The last couple of days also included our Bring A Baby screenings, including British director Emma Lazenby ’s beautifully painted BAFTA-winning animation Mother of Many.
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Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
L-R: Rachel Millward, Annie Lennox, Livia Firth, Laura Bailey
Any suggestions of fading energy after a long BEV week were quickly quelled on Sunday with the London premiere of the year’s most celebrated international film, the UK premiere of an extraordinary look at the lives of women under Palestine’s ruling Hamas party, and a visit from some of the world’s most wonderful women for our Equals on Film Oxfam Gala Screening. Who could possibly think of sleep when hanging out with the likes of Annie Lennox, Laura Bailey, Livia Firth and Thandie Newton?
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Mar 13, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Temper Temper's Wendy Bevan
From luxury sex shop founder Sam Roddick sharing her tips for good orgasms to director Melanie Light explaining that her tendency towards the slasher genre was a natural reflection of her personality, the fifth day of this year’s Birds Eye View Film Festival was a real cracker. We also saw an adventure through the slums of Nairobi, a sharply comic look at post-9/11 New York, and a cracking live line-up for this year’s Festival Party.
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Mar 12, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Grammy winner Imogen Heap at Southbank Centre
As we geared up for the one we’d all been waiting for last night, we realised there was also a hell of a lot else going on too! While Grammy Award-wininng superstar Imogen Heap blew the roof off Southbank Centre, we were honoured by the presence of Turner Prize-winner and Royal Academician Gillian Wearing for her first feature film Self Made ; and acclaimed contemporary folksters Blue Roses knocked our socks off with a new live score to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. My, what company we keep!
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Mar 11, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Kate Nash
The rollercoaster third day of this year’s Birds Eye View Film Festival took us all the way from BRIT Award-winning pop stars to the bloodiest depths of the female mind. While platinum-selling music sensation Kate Nash introduced Festival favourite Music Loves Video, we welcomed Total Film news editor Rosie Fletcher to introduce her childhood favourite, Kathryn Bigelow’s seminal vampire flick Near Dark. Meanwhile excitement built as musicians were in their final rehearsals for tonight’s musical-cinematic spectacular Sound & Silents at Southbank Centre.
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