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All Good Children: An Interview with Alicia Duffy

May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByEmily Seed

All Good Children

Birds Eye View chatted to British filmmaker Alicia Duffy from her home in London yesterday, as she waited for a BBC interview and prepared for her trip to Cannes on Friday, where her first feature film All Good Children will premiere in Directors’ Fortnight. Alicia was first noticed for her 2001 short, the stunning Crow Stone (2001), which won numerous international festival awards, and her second work, 2002’s exquisite The Most Beautiful Man in the World, which was nominated for the short film Palme D’Or at Cannes in 2003, among other laurels. All Good Children tells of two brothers who are sent to France after their mother’s suicide and have to navigate the no man’s land between their tender yet wracked fantasies and a hard adult reality. Certain to come back from Cannes with a UK distributor, we’ll hope to see the film in cinemas later this year.
Alicia is the sole British filmmaker in Directors’ Fortnight this year, and one of only four women filmmakers in the category – watch this space for news of her film’s reception!

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Bring a baby to Junior

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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Festival Gem: Entre Nos

Feb 26, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View

Paola Mendoza, pictured above, plays adoring mother Mariana in the film

Entre Nos is based on real life events and follows Mariana and her two children who, having been abandoned by their husband/father,  are thrown out onto the hot Summer streets of Queens, NY.  What follows is the story of one family’s struggle to survive in a dangerous and foreign world.

BEV are privileged to have the UK Premiere of award winning Entre Nos. We caught up with Directors Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte

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BEVs First Roller Derby

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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