Mar 1, 2010 | No Comments | ByJulia Carruthers
Matador Maripaz Vega in the bullring
Is bullfighting sport, dance, theatre or blood ritual? She Is The Matador reveals bullfighting to be all of these. Through current interviews and archival footage illustrating the history of women in bullfighting, the film offers a window on the highly choreographed and deadly match between bull and human that remains enormously popular in Spain, even as it is reviled by many in an age of animal rights.
Celeste Carrasco & Gemma Cubero del Barrio run the Talcual Films production company and She Is The Matador is their joint directorial debut.
We are thrilled to be screening this passionate account of a fascinating tradition as part of our 2010 Festival this Friday and caught up with Celeste and Gemma in lieu of this.
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Feb 26, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
Paola Mendoza, pictured above, plays adoring mother Mariana in the film
Entre Nos is based on real life events and follows Mariana and her two children who, having been abandoned by their husband/father, are thrown out onto the hot Summer streets of Queens, NY. What follows is the story of one family’s struggle to survive in a dangerous and foreign world.
BEV are privileged to have the UK Premiere of award winning Entre Nos. We caught up with Directors Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte
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Feb 22, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Kathryn Bigelow at the BAFTAs last night
Last night Kathryn Bigelow picked up Best Film & Best Director for The Hurt Locker, Andrea Arnold won Outstanding British Film for Fish Tank, Martina Amati was awarded for Best Short for I Do Air and Best Short Animation went to Emma Lazenby and Sally Arthur for Mother of Many. Congratulations to all these winners! Yesterday really was a night to be celebrated for women in film.
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Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Kim Longinotto
‘Film-making saved my life’
Fantastic article in the Guardian on Friday on Kim Longinotto and her film Rough Aunties which is screening as part of our Festival at ICA Cinema 1, March 7, 2.30pm & ICA Cinema 2, March 9, 6.15pm. The Screening is partnership with Branchage Film festival
If you missed it click here. To get tickets and see the rest of our inspiring 2010 Docs programme click here.
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Feb 15, 2010 | No Comments | ByJulia Carruthers
Samantha Morton's directorial debut The Unloved
The directorial debut from Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton, The Unloved is a powerful drama about a young girl growing up in a children’s home provides an intimate child’s-eye view of the UK’s care system.
Working with screenwriter Tony Grisoni (Red Riding), Morton has created a script that gives an honest and intimate child’s-eye view of the care system in the UK. Filmed in Morton’s hometown of Nottingham, the two young leads – Molly Windsor and Lauren Socha – were cast through a series of open auditions held across Nottingham schools, drama groups and at The Television Workshop, which Morton herself attended.
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Feb 8, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByRachel Millward
Rachel+bump - now two months bigger...
Well, this is the funniest of festival years for me. Just as Birds Eye View gears up to what looks to be an outrageously brilliant festival - a true celebration of the scope of women’s creative vision, I gear up to a very different moment of creativity - giving birth for the first time. There’s something rather poetic (and nuts) about the timing for me. Should I go those two “permissable” weeks over the official due date, our baby girl could be coming into the world on opening night. Which means that the festival - my first baby, of sorts, is now safely in the hands of BEV’s most excellent team, allowing me to focus on this momentous and unknown journey ahead. Obviously, should baby decide to come this week, or next, I may shuffle down to share in the joys of closing night delight, but maybe our new little world will be too fresh and fragile - we shall see…
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