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Mar 24, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
Celia Imrie leads the cast of Saint Joan
One of the many highlights of this year’s Festival programme was She Writes: a celebratory performed reading of one of Grace Banks and Kate Bingham’s screenplay Saint Joan, co-presented with The Script Factory and BAFTA, and written and developed during last year’s She Writes lab. The performance was introduced by a keynote speech from Birds Eye View Chair and celebrated producer (including, most recently, of Made in Dagenham) Elizabeth Karlsen, examining the current prognosis of British female screenwriters, and asking whether the challenges they face today might not be even greater than those in the earliest days of the industry. Click below to read Elizabeth Karlsen’s full speech. Read the full story
Mar 17, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Lucy Walker, director of Countdown to Zero
In a first for Birds Eye View, last night’s Bloody Women Panel Debate was streamed live online to hundreds of online viewers. Rounding off our programme of work looking at the role of women in the development of horror cinema, panellists included Emily Booth, a presenter for our media partner actress The Horror Channel and Alan Jones of programme partner actress FrightFest. Elsewhere, we were thrilled to present Oscar nominee and Berlin and Sundance winner Lucy Walker‘s Countdown to Zero.
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Mar 16, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Celia Imrie
Last night saw a star-studded turn-out in support of our She Writes lab for emerging female screenwriters. A celebratory evening at BAFTA commemorated the end of the year-long development project, in association with the Script Factory, with a screenplay reading starring Celia Imrie, Frances Barber, Dudley Sutton and Paula Wilcox among others. The last couple of days also included our Bring A Baby screenings, including British director Emma Lazenby ’s beautifully painted BAFTA-winning animation Mother of Many.
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Mar 15, 2011 | 4 Comments | ByLouise Forbes
Imogen Heap DVD
We’ve been blown away by the response to our Sound and Silents extravaganza on Friday night at Southbank Centre – and if you were there we’d love to know what you think too! We have a copy of Imogen’s new DVD Everything In-Between – The Story of Ellipse to be won for the best review: all you have to do is tell us what you thought about the Sound & Silents performance in the Comments box below (or post a link to a piece on your blog) by Friday 25th March. We’ll then put the names of the commentators in a hat, and one will win a copy of the DVD!
Everything In-Between – The Story of Ellipse goes behind the scenes and explores Imogen’s three year journey to make Grammy Award winning album, Ellipse, including her writing and recording process and the building of her recording studio. Find out how she creates the unique sounds of her album from dismantaling pianos to evening birds in the woods (and including a clip of her performance from Birds Eye View Film Festival 2008).
Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
L-R: Rachel Millward, Annie Lennox, Livia Firth, Laura Bailey
Any suggestions of fading energy after a long BEV week were quickly quelled on Sunday with the London premiere of the year’s most celebrated international film, the UK premiere of an extraordinary look at the lives of women under Palestine’s ruling Hamas party, and a visit from some of the world’s most wonderful women for our Equals on Film Oxfam Gala Screening. Who could possibly think of sleep when hanging out with the likes of Annie Lennox, Laura Bailey, Livia Firth and Thandie Newton?
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Mar 13, 2011 | No Comments | ByWill
Temper Temper's Wendy Bevan
From luxury sex shop founder Sam Roddick sharing her tips for good orgasms to director Melanie Light explaining that her tendency towards the slasher genre was a natural reflection of her personality, the fifth day of this year’s Birds Eye View Film Festival was a real cracker. We also saw an adventure through the slums of Nairobi, a sharply comic look at post-9/11 New York, and a cracking live line-up for this year’s Festival Party.
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