Jan 6, 2012 | Comments Off | ByEmily Seed
WOW @ South Bank Centre, March 2012
Happy New Year to the BEV family and supporters! We hope this finds you well-fed, well-rested and well-entertained over the hols, and with a spring in your step for 2012.
We have hot-off-the-press BEV news for you, read on friends! Read the full story
Oct 26, 2011 | No Comments | ByRachel Millward
Following a decade of radical growth and seven acclaimed festivals, Birds Eye View will not be running a film festival in 2012, but will instead be working towards a sustainable plan for 2013 and beyond.
Why not?
Over the past few years, the UK Film Council supported the Birds Eye View Film Festival through their Film Festivals Fund and Diversity Grant in Aid. Since the closure of the Film Council, funds have transferred to the BFI. As yet, there is no provision for either Festivals or Diversity, leaving BEV with a 90% drop in public funds. Read the full story
Aug 10, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
BEV Founder-Director Rachel Millward
When I founded BEV in 2002, I never expected to see a decade of such phenomenal growth. Our first event was seen by just 200 people, and now over 18,000 join us at the Festival and on tour every year, with a further 650,000 via online and broadcast channels.
But we don’t want to rest on our laurels. We need to keep on our toes and stay relevant, and we need you to help us do that.
Apr 5, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
BEV Founder-Director Rachel Millward
And so another year’s work flies by in a ten-day torrent of events, screenings, speeches, conversations with filmmakers, parties, jury meetings, live music, awards and celebration. It is my very great pleasure to announce that the seventh Birds Eye View Film Festival was a staggering success!
Mar 24, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
Celia Imrie leads the cast of Saint Joan
One of the many highlights of this year’s Festival programme was She Writes: a celebratory performed reading of one of Grace Banks and Kate Bingham’s screenplay Saint Joan, co-presented with The Script Factory and BAFTA, and written and developed during last year’s She Writes lab. The performance was introduced by a keynote speech from Birds Eye View Chair and celebrated producer (including, most recently, of Made in Dagenham) Elizabeth Karlsen, examining the current prognosis of British female screenwriters, and asking whether the challenges they face today might not be even greater than those in the earliest days of the industry. Click below to read Elizabeth Karlsen’s full speech. Read the full story
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.
