May 10, 2013 | No Comments | ByEmily Vermont
After the success of her BAFTA nominated feature debut Brick Lane, Sarah Gavron returns with an extraordinarily rare and beautiful portrait of a Village at the End of the World. Documenting the growing day-to-day pressures on one of the world’s most remote communities – a village of just 59 in rural Greenland; frozen over and veiled in darkness for half of the year – this film gives us a sincere, gently moving snapshot of a world very far from our own. Read the full story
Apr 26, 2013 | No Comments | ByEmily Vermont
At a time when all most people have to go on when understanding life in Iran is Ben Affleck‘s Argo (filmed in Turkey by the way), Tina Gharavi‘s I Am Nasrine is indeed, as Sir Ben Kingsley put it, “an important and much needed film.” This was happily recognised last year when the film bagged a BAFTA nomination – something that has set Gharavi on quite a different path than the one she’d been expecting.
BEVer Emily Vermont caught up with Tina to find out more about the making of this brave and ambitious film, the real situation in Iran and what she’s learned in the process of making it. Read the full story
Apr 22, 2013 | No Comments | ByEmily Vermont
Thanks to all the fantastic audiences at BEV2013, and a little helping hand from the scrumptious and positively guilt-free Conscious Chocolates, we’ve been able to compile a pretty cool set of stats to give you an idea of this year’s demographics. Click the image and zoom in to get all the details – we’re feeling pleasantly surprised and rather proud of some of these figures! Now bring on 2014…
Apr 5, 2013 | No Comments | ByBen Monks
Day Two of the Festival started bright and early as our international delegates – directors, writers and producers from across the MENA region – began their two-day series of workshops and events. Round table discussions and lunch at Coutts Bank were followed by a seminar on international producing with the British Council’s Rachel Robey and a debate on women in film hosted by MoFilm – huge thanks to them all for their support with the delegates programme.
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Apr 4, 2013 | No Comments | ByWill Young
The 2013 Birds Eye View Film Festival kicked off in star-studded, sold-out style – and with a bright message of hope – at BFI Southbank last night with the UK Premiere of WHEN I SAW YOU by Annemarie Jacir, Palestine’s first female film director. With the Festival hype getting dangerously overheated with previews on the BBC, CNN, ITV and Radio 4, it was great to finally get cracking! Read the full story
Apr 3, 2013 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
To celebrate BEV’s screening of Susan Youssef‘s award-winning poetic love story Habibi (Darling, Something’s Wrong With You Head) at our closing night gala on 10 April, we decided to commission a particularly special blog piece for our lovely readers.
We asked the outstandingly talented and widely acclaimed poet Sabrina Mahfouz to compose us a poem in response to the film, and what a gem it is… We then spoke to Sarah Irving, a freelance writer and translator specialising in Palestine and the wider Middle East, to ask for her reflections on this cinematic treat. Read her guest review below! Read the full story
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