Feb 25, 2011 | 1 Comment | ByBen
Kelly Reichardt's 'Meek's Cutoff'
Thinking about the films in this year’s programme, some outstanding images keep flickering through my mind: The naked woman wearing a Kafia in a cool NY hangar, welcoming her Iraqi relatives who have just fled the troubled region (The Imperialists Are Still Alive!); Hidelgaard von Bingen consumed by her visions, leading her fellow nuns into the second Millennia with ideas and determination that could easily be dubbed radical feminism, only they took place nearly 1,000 years before the term was coined (Vision); mothers standing next to their sons as they read their last statements before leaving on suicide missions (Women of Hamas); a boy running through Kibera slum in Nairobi in an attempt to save his father from evil spirits (Soul Boy); three pilgrims isolated and lost on the Portland-Oregon trail (Meek’s Cutoff); and oh, the one I really struggle to get out of my head – Daddy’s Girl engaged in a culinary extravaganza where Daddy is the main course (Horror Shorts)… Read the full story
Feb 22, 2011 | No Comments | ByBen
Make a Divine Film
Chocolate & filmmaking – they go together like The King’s Speech and BAFTA awards. And so Birds Eye View is delighted to be joining forces with Divine Chocolate for Make a Divine Film – a chance to make a short film about the history of Divine Chocolate and tell the story of how it travels from the cocoa farms of Ghana to the goody bags at the Birds Eye View Festival.
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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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Jan 31, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Destiny Ekaragha on set
Destiny Ekaragha is a rising star of the British film scene and we are very pleased to be screening the third short film she has written and directed, The Park, as part of our UK shorts programme at the festival.
The film is a coming of age tale which sharply observes teenage relationships with humor and empathy.
BEV’s Zoe Kandyla got some time with Destiny.
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May 18, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Ivan
Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold
Fresh from a screening of Fish Tank, directed by long-time friend of BEV, Andrea Arnold, we got the chance to bring together some of the best female filmmakers at Cannes 2009 for a panel discussion at the UK Film Council Pavilion. Now an annual BEV tradition, the event featured women from all over the world, and a mix of upcoming and established talent. It was chaired by BEV’s founder Rachel Millward.
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May 23, 2008 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
This year Birds Eye View took to the Croisette again and brought together some of the talented women filmmakers with work in the Cannes Film Festival (in partnership with the UK Film Council). Our programmer Fiona Fletcher gives the lowdown:
“Speaking about her failed plight to return to Palestine to finish her film, debut director Annemarie Jacir (Salt of the Sea – Un Certain Regard) had some audience members in tears. Jacir’s film tracks the journey of a Brooklyn-born waitress who travels to Ramallah and Israeli-occupied Jaffa to live in ‘her homeland’.
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