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Mar 10, 2010 | No Comments | ByJulia Carruthers
Wanuri Kahiu
Birds Eye View are very happy to be screening Wanuri Kahiu’s award-winning From a Whisper as part of our festival. The film explores a family’s experience of the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Our Senior Programmer, Emily Seed, was lucky enough to catch up with Wanuri for a chat.
Catch From a Whisper today (Wednesday 10th March) & tomorrow (Thursday 11th March) at the ICA. Wanuri’s doc Wangari Maathai: For Our Land will be screened at the ICA tomorrow as part of our Kenyan Double Bill. Read the full story
Mar 8, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Kathryn Bigelow wins the Oscar for Best Director
She did it! Kathryn Bigelow has made film history by becoming the first ever woman in all 82 years of the Oscars to win the Best Director Academy Award for her low-budget war drama The Hurt Locker. Filmmaking women across the world, including we BEV-vers, stood up and applauded her in front of our TVs at 5am this morning! Bigelow’s fellow nominees were her ex-husband James Cameron for Avatar, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Jason Reitman for Up In The Air and Lee Daniels for Precious. Daniels would have been the first black director to have won this Oscar if his name had been in the envelope opened by Barbra Streisand (herself the first woman to win Best Director Golden Globe for Yentl in 1984), and we hope this happens soon, but this year is all Bigelow’s, and all yours! Read the full story
Mar 4, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Mia Hansen-Love
Our big festival First Weekenders Club film is stunning French drama The Father Of My Children, on release by Artificial Eye from Friday 5 March. Our Senior Programmer Emily Seed chatted to director Mia Hansen-Løve yesterday in London.
The award-winning The Father Of My Children is released tomorrow by Artificial Eye in cinemas around London and the UK.
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Mar 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByTamsyn Dent
Tamsyn
Tamsyn Dent, BEV’s Development and Outreach Manager (and new Mum!) reviews our 2010 Bring a Baby Film Junior, about a parent-child relationship - a generation on. According to Time Out, Junior is “Beautifully observed… a soulful movie about the importance of family” Read on to see what Tam had to say…
Junior is screening at 11am on March 5th at the Ritzy in Brixton for the Bring a Baby screening - you can also catch it that evening at the Ritzy at 6pm and at the ICA on Saturday March 6th and Monday March 8th.
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Mar 1, 2010 | No Comments | ByJulia Carruthers
Matador Maripaz Vega in the bullring
Is bullfighting sport, dance, theatre or blood ritual? She Is The Matador reveals bullfighting to be all of these. Through current interviews and archival footage illustrating the history of women in bullfighting, the film offers a window on the highly choreographed and deadly match between bull and human that remains enormously popular in Spain, even as it is reviled by many in an age of animal rights.
Celeste Carrasco & Gemma Cubero del Barrio run the Talcual Films production company and She Is The Matador is their joint directorial debut.
We are thrilled to be screening this passionate account of a fascinating tradition as part of our 2010 Festival this Friday and caught up with Celeste and Gemma in lieu of this.
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Feb 25, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Whip It Roller Girls including Drew Barrymore
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 were walking into our first roller derby.
By the time we left we were on a high, super-excited about The BEVFF Closing Night Gala - London Premiere of Whip It + live roller derby action from the London Roller Girls and the London Rockin Rollers!
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