Mar 10, 2010 | 2 Comments | ByEmily Seed
Wanuri Kahiu
Birds Eye View are very happy to be screening Wanuri Kahiu’s award-winning From a Whisper as part of our festival. The film explores a family’s experience of the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. Our Senior Programmer, Emily Seed, was lucky enough to catch up with Wanuri for a chat.
Catch From a Whisper today (Wednesday 10th March) & tomorrow (Thursday 11th March) at the ICA. Wanuri’s doc Wangari Maathai: For Our Land will be screened at the ICA tomorrow as part of our Kenyan Double Bill. Read the full story
Mar 8, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Kathryn Bigelow wins the Oscar for Best Director
She did it! Kathryn Bigelow has made film history by becoming the first ever woman in all 82 years of the Oscars to win the Best Director Academy Award for her low-budget war drama The Hurt Locker. Filmmaking women across the world, including we BEV-vers, stood up and applauded her in front of our TVs at 5am this morning! Bigelow’s fellow nominees were her ex-husband James Cameron for Avatar, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Jason Reitman for Up In The Air and Lee Daniels for Precious. Daniels would have been the first black director to have won this Oscar if his name had been in the envelope opened by Barbra Streisand (herself the first woman to win Best Director Golden Globe for Yentl in 1984), and we hope this happens soon, but this year is all Bigelow’s, and all yours! Read the full story
Mar 4, 2010 | No Comments | ByEmily Seed
Mia Hansen-Love
Our big festival First Weekenders Club film is stunning French drama The Father Of My Children, on release by Artificial Eye from Friday 5 March. Our Senior Programmer Emily Seed chatted to director Mia Hansen-Løve yesterday in London.
The award-winning The Father Of My Children is released tomorrow by Artificial Eye in cinemas around London and the UK.
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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 25, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Whip It Roller Girls including Drew Barrymore
On Saturday 6th February myself and Julia (also of Birds Eye View) approached a sports centre in Tottenham Hale with our BYOB in our hands and the anticipation of the unknown ahead of us.
We were walking into our first roller derby.
By the time we left we were on a high, super-excited about The BEVFF Closing Night Gala – London Premiere of Whip It + live roller derby action from the London Roller Girls and the London Rockin Rollers!
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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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