Nov 23, 2011 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Frank kissing Evie.
Junkhearts is the debut feature from British filmmaker Tinge Krishnan, previously most known for her brilliant short Shadowscan (2001), which won Best Film awards at BAFTA and Raindance. Read on for a synopsis of Junkhearts, an interview with Tinge and special offer for Nest Members in Manchester, York and Greenwich areas!
Nov 8, 2011 | No Comments | ByRachel Millward
Young Heathcliff (Solomon Glave) and Cathy (Shannon Beer)
Andrea Arnold is celebrated as one of Britain’s most important contemporary filmmakers. Birds Eye View’s very first event back in November 2002 featured Andrea Arnold’s beautiful and disturbing short film Dog. Her third short, Wasp, won her an Oscar, and was screened at the first Birds Eye View Film Festival in 2005. Andrea then sprung into feature film with the tension thrilled Red Road which won the jury award at Cannes, as did her second feature Fish Tank, which won the Birds Eye View Marie Claire Best Film of 2009-10 Award, presented by Gillian Anderson at our 2010 film festival. For the first time, Andrea has delivered an adaptation of a classic novel for her third, equally distinctive feature film. We had the opportunity to chat with her about the experience:
Interview questions by Rebecca Brand, Head of Communications and Operations at Women in Film and Television UK , with many thanks from BEV!
Oct 12, 2011 | No Comments | ByRachel Millward
The Australian novelist’s first foray into film directing is not the Sleeping Beauty we all know and love. The story of a young woman’s induction into the strange sexual practice of being drugged to sleep whilst older men pay to be alone with her, Julia Leigh’s debut is a very creepy yet visually elegant work. BEV sat down with the director to talk about her inspiration and the leap from the literary world to the cinematic. Interview by Laura Bushell (www.laurabushell.com).
Part of your inspiration for Sleeping Beauty came from a recurring dream you had, can you tell me about that?
After the publication of my first novel I had to do a little bit of press and I contracted this horrible nightmare of being filmed in my sleep. It was quite compelling because the dreamer dreams she’s asleep in her own bed, when in fact she is asleep in her own bed. I realised we’re all quite vulnerable in our sleep and sometimes it’s as if we wake up and edit out our nights as if they haven’t happened. So I wondered what would it be like to know that something was happening in your sleep and know it probably wasn’t good for you? How would that seep through into your waking life?
Mar 6, 2011 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Self Made
Mar 2, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
Guilty Pleasures
If you’re anything like us, you’re thinking a car, or a house, or even a cinema ticket… Well guess again. Every 4 seconds someone buys a Mills & Boon novel. Yes, really. Read the full story
Feb 18, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham is the current fancy of American independent cinema. At 24, she’s already scooped SXSW’s Best Narrative Feature Award and the New York Film Critics Society’s Next Generation Award, plus three Independent Spirit Award nominations. Her brilliantly offbeat quaterlife crisis comedy Tiny Furniture is the Closing Night film for Birds Eye View 2011.
