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.
Photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat is one of the world’s most respected Iranian artists. Among her best known works are Women of Allah (1990), Turbulent (1998) and Rapture (1999). Neshat is based in New York and exhibits internationally. Following several short films, Women Without Men is Neshat’s first feature, and has already won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
We were lucky enough to catch her for a video interview at Artifical Eye‘s HQ when she was in London for the UK Premeiere of Women Without Men at the London Film Festival in October 2009. On the eve of the film’s opening screening which BEV are co-presenting at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival we though we would share it.
BEV had a swell time meeting filmmakers and enjoying the top selection of flicks at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival last week.
Our BEV Reception at the EIFF delegate centre went down a treat with the festival crowd, and we’ve brought back some goodies for you too.
Check out our video interviews with women directors and talent from features in the official programme. Enjoy…
(Images: Sir Sean Connery presents actresses Katie Jarvis – FISHTANK (above left), and Kerrie Hayes – KICKS (above right), with their Trailblazers awards)
Well here it is, the final video report from me. And of course, ’tis a vid of the Closing Night Party, and what fun was to be had! Dressing up, festival awards, photos, oodles of talent, dancing… Notice my slight nervousness and awe when talking to Sally Philips and Andrea Riseborough, and watch out for Hayley Atwell’s very cute dog. Plus an attempted one take wonder of all the team just before we had our photo taken (cue cheesy pic below…).
Thursday there was only one event that was really on my mind…. the BEV/WarpX Last Laugh Comedy Night at the Roxy. Very simply because my short film was showing and there would be lots of very funny women that I admire, or at least was excited about seeing for the first time and was consequently very inspired. Though I was gutted that I wasn’t able to go to Alraune as well, which was apparently very amazing.
On 4th February 2009, the Last Laugh participants pitched 23 ideas to Warp X. We’re very excited to let you know that four projects have been selected for development. These are:
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.
Our BEV Reception at the EIFF delegate centre went down a treat with the festival crowd, and we’ve brought back some goodies for you too.
