Jun 11, 2010 | No Comments | ByGergana Barakova
Shannon Walsh is a Montreal-based filmmaker and writer. Her first feature documentary, H2Oil, traces the human and environmental costs of Alberta’s oil sands. Birds Eye View caught up with her to talk about it. Read the full story
Jun 10, 2010 | No Comments | ByGergana Barakova
The Girl on the Train
Odile Barski is a prolific French screenwriter and novelist, who has worked with director Claude Chabrol five times (on The Cry of The Owl, Masks, The Colour Of Lies, A Comedy of Power and Bellamy). This is her first collaboration with André Téchiné. Odile Barski also writes novels and is a well-known TV writer. Birds Eye View caught up with her to talk about her new film The Girl on the Train. Read the full story
Jun 7, 2010 | No Comments | ByLaura Lacey-Freeman
Following a successful screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in partnership with Birds Eye View, Women Without Men is being released into cinemas on Friday. Birds Eye View’s Clare Callan caught up with the director, Shirin Neshat, for an in depth discussion. Read the full story
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!
Dec 16, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Ivan
Sam Taylor-Wood in action:directing Nowhere Boy
About a third of the way into Nowhere Boy, there’s a moment which snaps the viewer back to director Sam Taylor-Wood’s debut short, Love You More: a close-up of a needle being delicately settled on a vinyl groove, an audible crackle which sparks an electric sense of silent anticipation and sexual tension… And then a rock ‘n’ roll record lets rip. Except, this time round, it’s not 1978 and it’s not the Buzzcock’s unrestrained ‘Love You More’ providing both foreplay and soundtrack to the teenage protagonists’ charming, fumbling, randy lovemaking; it’s the fag end of the 1950s, it’s Screamin’ Jay Hawkins howling, thrilling ‘I Put a Spell on You’ on the stereo, and the two thumping hearts trying not to be heard over it belong to a teenager called John Lennon and his estranged mother. In essence, it’s a tad more complicated this time round. Read the full story
Nov 30, 2009 | No Comments | ByLaura Lacey-Freeman
Cracks director: Jordan Scott
Jordan Scott has wanted to direct feature films for a long time – it was just a question of finding the right material. And when Cracks came along, she knew instantly that she’d found the script that she was waiting for. Set in an austere, all girls’ boarding school, Cracks is a dark and troubling story of obsession and loss of innocence. Scott has directed short films – including Never Never and Portrait – and contributed a segment to All The Invisible Children, a collection of seven short films with a common theme, the exploitation of children, which also included sections from Spike Lee and John Woo. For Scott, 30, filmmaking is in the blood. Her father, Sir Ridley Scott, has directed modern classics including Alien, Thelma and Louise, and Gladiator. Her mother, Sandy Watson, is a producer and her uncle, Tony Scott, and brother, Jake Scott, are directors. She has also directed commercials for several leading brands including Prada, Renault and Land Rover. Cracks is her feature film debut. Read the full story
