Feb 9, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Mira Calix
Fresh from winning a Composer of The Year Award 2009, Mira Calix is known for her innovative scores, often accompanied by unique visual displays. As part of a special commission for the BEV Film Festival this year she will be presenting an original score for the first ever feature-length animation. Subtle and beautiful, The Adventures of Price Achmed was directed by Lotte Reiniger in 1926. The trailblaizing Warp-signed composer/ musician shares the story so far… Read the full story
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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Feb 5, 2010 | 3 Comments | ByAmy Mole
Gillian Anderson will be announcing the winning film
So the Oscar’s nominations have been announced and we are keeping everything crossed for Kathryn Bigelow, who is up for Best Director. BEV will be rolling out the red carpet on March 7th too, to spend Oscars night at our Secret Screening of the best woman directed film of the year as voted for by Marie Claire readers. None other than the luminous Gillian Anderson will present the award bringing some real life Academy Award glamour to the event.
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Jan 24, 2010 | 1 Comment | ByRachel Millward
With apologies for having been a bit secretive about it, we launched the Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010 on Tuesday, at the Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue, London. This was one of those exclusive shin-digs, with press, VIPs, sponsors, partners and all good schmoozable folk joining us as we announced the festival programme with a celebratory tipple.
New Chair Elizabeth Karlsen, Fiona Shaw and Rachel
Fiona Shaw - surely one of the greatest actors working in London today – we find her quite mind-blowing! – gave the opening address, while I introduced our new chair – the amazing producer Elizabeth Karlsen – and revealed the delights of the festival to come.
Fiona Shaw’s speech was typically eloquent – ranging from aboriginal Australian women’s culture to new interractive narrative forms in film. Her final message was clear and passionate: “Just as poetry comes from the silence, so films come from the darkness. Women need to illuminate more of that darkness, for the benefit of both genders…” amen to that! Read the full story
Nov 25, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Mayer
Sally Potter: the First British Female Director to Have a Full Career Retrospective at the BFI
At the end of Orlando, Sally Potter’s celebrated adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando (Tilda Swinton) finds herself in The Present. She revisits the Great House in which she grew up as a young (male) Tudor courtier and which she lost when she changed sex to female in the eighteenth century. The house is now a National Trust property and Orlando, suited and booted in androgynous chocolate brown biking leathers, is surrounded by Japanese tourists as she regards a portrait of herself as a young man. Read the full story
Nov 3, 2009 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk
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 (Le Chant 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
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