Mar 2, 2010 | No Comments | ByTamsyn Dent
Tamsyn
Tamsyn Dent, BEV’s Development and Outreach Manager (and new Mum!) reviews our 2010 Bring a Baby Film Junior, about a parent-child relationship – a generation on. According to Time Out, Junior is “Beautifully observed… a soulful movie about the importance of family” Read on to see what Tam had to say…
Junior is screening at 11am on March 5th at the Ritzy in Brixton for the Bring a Baby screening – you can also catch it that evening at the Ritzy at 6pm and at the ICA on Saturday March 6th and Monday March 8th.
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Mar 1, 2010 | No Comments | ByJulia Carruthers
Matador Maripaz Vega in the bullring
Is bullfighting sport, dance, theatre or blood ritual? She Is The Matador reveals bullfighting to be all of these. Through current interviews and archival footage illustrating the history of women in bullfighting, the film offers a window on the highly choreographed and deadly match between bull and human that remains enormously popular in Spain, even as it is reviled by many in an age of animal rights.
Celeste Carrasco & Gemma Cubero del Barrio run the Talcual Films production company and She Is The Matador is their joint directorial debut.
We are thrilled to be screening this passionate account of a fascinating tradition as part of our 2010 Festival this Friday and caught up with Celeste and Gemma in lieu of this.
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Feb 26, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
Paola Mendoza, pictured above, plays adoring mother Mariana in the film
Entre Nos is based on real life events and follows Mariana and her two children who, having been abandoned by their husband/father, are thrown out onto the hot Summer streets of Queens, NY. What follows is the story of one family’s struggle to survive in a dangerous and foreign world.
BEV are privileged to have the UK Premiere of award winning Entre Nos. We caught up with Directors Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte
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Feb 25, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Whip It Roller Girls including Drew Barrymore
On Saturday 6th February myself and Julia (also of Birds Eye View) approached a sports centre in Tottenham Hale with our BYOB in our hands and the anticipation of the unknown ahead of us.
We were walking into our first roller derby.
By the time we left we were on a high, super-excited about The BEVFF Closing Night Gala – London Premiere of Whip It + live roller derby action from the London Roller Girls and the London Rockin Rollers!
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Feb 24, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Papermint Poetry
We caught up with Dr Barbara Lippe (known as Babsi), Art Director & Consultant of Papermint, a fascinating indie games company, who have created an all-new animated virtual world which combines advanced casual gaming and social networking. Babsi and Chief Technical Officer, Claudia will be hosting a live game development session at the festival on Saturday 6th March as part of Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010′s Innovation strand. Read the full story
Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
By Lucy Bolton
Marilyn Monroe stars in Gentleman Prefer Blondes
The blondes who feature in the Birds Eye View Sound & Silents series and the Blonde Crazy Retrospective demonstrate the complexity of the images and personality traits that have been attributed to blondes from the earliest days of cinema. Like her fellow feminine filmic staples –the showgirl and the femme fatale – the blonde can be unfairly dismissed as a predictable set of conventions and relegated to the role of one-dimensional spectacle.
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