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May 18, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Ivan
Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold
Fresh from a screening of Fish Tank, directed by long-time friend of BEV, Andrea Arnold, we got the chance to bring together some of the best female filmmakers at Cannes 2009 for a panel discussion at the UK Film Council Pavilion. Now an annual BEV tradition, the event featured women from all over the world, and a mix of upcoming and established talent. It was chaired by BEV’s founder Rachel Millward.
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Feb 12, 2009 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
BEV programmer Daniela Boban is at the Berlin Film Festival, catching the latest films by women directors including our favourite Julie Delpy with an early, (even more) gruesome version of botox, and a Chytilova comedy classic on the side…
Daniela Boban (BEV Programmer)
Yesterday, I caught Julie Delpy‘s latest offering: The Countess, Panorama Special screening, a period piece about a notorious 17th century Hungarian countess Erzsebet Bathory, played by Delpy herself, who allegedly used virgins’ blood as a pre-botox youth potion, in a desperate and increasingly gruesome bid to retain her youthful looks. A powerful, independent noblewoman falls for a lovely young man 20 years her junior after her husband’s death. This young man ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her murderous tendencies. She believes that the reason for the abandonment is her age, and becomes convinced that virgins’ blood can reverse signs of ageing, starting a series of gruesome murders of local maidens to feed her obsession with youth and beauty. Although the film portrays the story as if it was actually true, Delpy very strongly suggests that this was all possibly fabricated by the Countess’s enemies – what better way to get rid of a powerful woman than by spreading rumours about her as a blood-thirsty insane monster.
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Jan 13, 2009 | No Comments | ByHarriet Fleuriot
Coffee and Cake with Birds Eye View
We all ate it. Yep, thats right, Birds Eye View was invited to host a Howling Feedback networking event at very cool London Short Film Festival, so yesterday afternoon saw the congregation of filmmakers, filmlovers, film industry and… cake.
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May 23, 2008 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
This year Birds Eye View took to the Croisette again and brought together some of the talented women filmmakers with work in the Cannes Film Festival (in partnership with the UK Film Council). Our programmer Fiona Fletcher gives the lowdown:
“Speaking about her failed plight to return to Palestine to finish her film, debut director Annemarie Jacir (Salt of the Sea – Un Certain Regard) had some audience members in tears. Jacir’s film tracks the journey of a Brooklyn-born waitress who travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in ‘her homeland’.
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