BEV celebrates & supports international women filmmakers. The flagship BEV Film Festival runs at London's BFI Southbank and ICA, with exclusive previews, shorts, retrospectives, training and cutting-edge live performances.
Birds Eye View are co-presenting two programmes at the UK Jewish Film Festival
We are looking forward to some amazing films from women directors.
The first of these is the UK premiere of Wedding Song (LeChant des Mariees). Following the success of Karin Albou’s award winning debut Le Petite Jerusalem this much anticipated film is a richly sensual portrait of friendship between two inseparable sixteen year old girls, one Jewish and the other Muslim, in Nazi occupied Tunis. Read the full story
Wednesday I bagged a ticket for The Imaginarium, that had sold out. I was last in, with the remaining seat conveniently in the front row, in easy dancing reach of all the panellists and the very capable (and entertaining) event host James Mullighan, from one of BEV’s festival partners – Shooting People.
My easy heckling position meaning I had a good view of the guests presenting their intriguing dance motion capture film project – filmmakers Bert and Bertie, Centroid, and English National Ballet. But for some reason the sound didn’t pick up too well on video, so I grabbed duo Bert and Bertie in the bar straight afterwards for a quick twirl of their hats, and a snappy digest of how they had found presenting their work to a captivated audience.
To build on our Screen Seductresses theme that is making this festival the sexiest yet, and taking spirit of our Sex on Screen debate happening this Wednesday, we are giving away copies of In Bed With – “a unique, sometimes humorous, often wicked and totally sizzling collection of unashamedly sexy bedtime stories by bestselling, award-winning and well-known novelists” (Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith et al).
We invited the co-authors, Maggie Alderson and Jessica Adams, onto our blog. Maggie answered our questions, and Jessica wrote a few words about her sexiest moment in cinema and why they have created In Bed With.
To have a chance of winning a book, you need to tell us what YOUR favourite erotic moment in cinema is, by commenting on this blog, in which the team at BEV HQ revealed our choices…
Prepping for the Sex on Screen Debate, I’ve been asking around to find out about our fave sexy moments in cinema. The BEV team have set the ball rolling with a quick email whip round. More erotic cinema moments stories to come from beyond the BEV HQ soon.
Our amazing retrospective programmers, Kelly Robinson and Ingrid Stigsdotter, give us some insight into some of cinemas first celebrities and most alluring vamps.
Greta Garbo
At a time when complaints about our celebrity-obsessed society seem to be everywhere, it is worth reminding ourselves that sensationalism has played an important part in film culture for a very long time. Among the actresses celebrated in this retrospective, Greta Garbo (The Temptress) is perhaps the one name that almost everyone still seems to recognise, but during the silent era, several of the stars in our programme were A-list celebrities.
Theda Bara
Theda Bara (A Fool There Was) was the first actress to establish a vamp persona on film and the first publicity-created star. Although Bara was American she was presented as an exotic French-Italian who had spent her childhood near the Sphinx in Egypt. Read the full story
To build on our 
