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Nov 9, 2011 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
We Need to Talk about Kevin is the latest offering from critically acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Having previously gained recognition for her stunning and brave dramas Ratcatcher (1999) and Morvern Callar (2002), both scripted also by Ramsay and both multi-award winners, Ramsay’s new work is an adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s powerful Orange Prize-winning 2003 novel about the family behind the teenage perpetrator of a high school massacre. The film has been engulfed in a wave of overwhelmingly positive reviews and recently received the Best Film award at the BFI London Film Festival, but is it possible for the film to live up to its exceptional critical reputation? BEV reviewer Sonia Zadurian delves into the high-profile work. Read the full story
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 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
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?
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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.
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Jun 23, 2011 | No Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Just Do It
This is a one-time only offer, guys! BEV subscribers can get an exclusive taste of Nest membership with our special preview screening of acclaimed new documentary Just Do It for the member rate of only £3.
Just Do It offers unprecedented access into climate change activism in an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community that refuses to sit back. Followed by an exclusive Q&A with director Emily James (director, The Luckiest Nut In The World; exec producer, The Age of Stupid) and producer Lauren Simpson who used a crowd-funding model to finance the project.
Learn more and watch the trailer here: http://justdoitfilm.com/
Join us at this very special event on Thursday 7th of July, at 7pm
at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Steet, London WC2H 9HQ
Available to the public at the Nest member rate: £3 only www.birds-eye-view.eventbrite.com
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