Jun 11, 2010 | No Comments | ByGergana Barakova
Shannon Walsh is a Montreal-based filmmaker and writer. Her first feature documentary, H2Oil, traces the human and environmental costs of Alberta’s oil sands. Birds Eye View caught up with her to talk about it. Read the full story
Jun 10, 2010 | No Comments | ByGergana Barakova
The Girl on the Train
Odile Barski is a prolific French screenwriter and novelist, who has worked with director Claude Chabrol five times (on The Cry of The Owl, Masks, The Colour Of Lies, A Comedy of Power and Bellamy). This is her first collaboration with André Téchiné. Odile Barski also writes novels and is a well-known TV writer. Birds Eye View caught up with her to talk about her new film The Girl on the Train. Read the full story
Jun 7, 2010 | No Comments | ByLaura Lacey-Freeman
Following a successful screening at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in partnership with Birds Eye View, Women Without Men is being released into cinemas on Friday. Birds Eye View’s Clare Callan caught up with the director, Shirin Neshat, for an in depth discussion. Read the full story
Jun 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Kicks is a markedly assured feature debut from Lindy Heymann. An intelligent and witty comment on modern celebrity culture and the darker side of obsession, the story captures the intense chemistry between two friends as well as the vulnerability and yearning of adolescent emotions. Screenwriter Leigh Campbell and director Lindy Heyman talked to us at Edinburgh International Film Festival last year when the film premiered. The trailer is included in the interview so check it out and go and see it this weekend – out Friday!
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.
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.
