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Mar 3, 2009 | 1 Comment | ByBirds Eye View
Sophie Ivan writes about Peace Mission and why you should get yourself along to the ICA on Monday March 9th for An Introduction to Nollywood – the third largest film industry in the world.
Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima at her desk
Never mind Nollywood, Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima is a one-woman industry all of her own. We first catch sight of her, a mobile phone clamped to each ear, arranging a slew of business meetings as she is driven in a blacked-out car through the choc-a streets of Lagos. Producer, director, talk-show host, founder and CEO of the African Movie Academy, which produces the continent’s equivalent of the Oscar’s each year, Peace is the embodiment of the energy which she describes as Nollywood’s driving force. It produces well over a 1000 films a year, and is Nigeria’s second largest employer (after the oil industry): in terms of sheer output, that makes it the third biggest film industry in the world.
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Mar 3, 2009 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
Rebecca Frankel, former Editor of FourDocs is a big fan of American Teen, screening at Birds Eye View film festival on Sat 7 Mar 6.30pm at the ICA in London and will see its opening weekend this Friday. We asked her to tell us a little bit about why she likes it so much:
“American Teen received rave reviews at Sundance last year. As well as setting off a bidding war with distributors, Nanette Burstein was awarded the Documentary Directing Award for it.
Set in Warsaw, Indiana, the film focus on five students in their final year of high school. Each fits one of the archetypes we know from, well, high school movies. So there is the jock, nerd, cheerleader, loner and rich kid. This cliche has been used to brilliant effect in the poster – a marketing rip off of The Breakfast Club poster.
American Teen poster pays homage to The Breakfast Club
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Feb 27, 2009 | 1 Comment | ByBirds Eye View
Think you’ve had your fill of tortured women running into the woods to tear their hair out after watching Ms Winslet in Revolutionary Road? Well, think again. The heart may be a dark forest, but it’s a veritable thrill to take a wander through it.
Nicolette Krebitz’s second feature is a slice of pop surrealism centring on a woman’s psychosexual meltdown – which sounds like a trial, and by rights should be depressing, but I actually found it a joy to watch.
Maybe that means I could do with a lie-down on the psychiatrist’s couch, or maybe it has something to do with the fact that Krebitz’s film provides a much needed breath of fresh air. The premise is pretty straightforward: what would you do if you found out your husband, and the father of your children, was leading a double life with another wife and kids, while you were at home changing nappies like a total mug? So far, so sadly-not-that-surreal. Read the full story
Jan 15, 2009 | 1 Comment | ByJess McCabe
Finn’s Girl, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert is out on DVD on Monday 19th January and to kickstart our DVD review section of our blog, we asked Jess McCabe, editor of The F Word - “a leading online magazine dedicated to contemporary UK feminism” to guest review it for us.
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