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“A personal, insightful and beautifully made film” Huffington Post
“One of the most breathless documentaries in recent memory” The Village Voice
The film will be presented for the first time in the UK at a special screening in partnership with the Iraqi Association on Thursday, January 12th 2017 at Rivercourt Methodist Church at 6:30pm. A UK digital release will follow, date TBC.
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‘THIS IS HAPPENING WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION’ (“Her Jazz”, Huggy Bear, 1992)
London Short Film Festival (LSFF) - 6-15 January - has announced its 2017 programme. According to the organisers: "This year’s festival mantra comes from Huggy Bear’s 1992 single Her Jazz, one of the rare UK representatives of riot grrrl in the early nineties. Based on the song’s ethos ‘this is happening without your (…) Continue Reading »
« La Sociale » est un film à ne pas manquer, pour les questions qu’il pose comme pour les vérités qu’il nous fait connaître, mais aussi pour sa ferveur envers ce qui est l’une de nos plus belles réussites dans le sens où elle allie la sécurité de tous avec la solidarité de chacun : la Sécurité Sociale, notre assurance du droit à vivre dignement. Lire la suite »
5 October 2016
Q&A with Roger Carvalho, Founder of Snoovies
by Anne-Sophie MarieSnack Movies and Life Online
If you make or watch short films, you should be familiar with Snoovies by now. Created in 2013 by three London actors (Roger Carvalho, Karsten Huttenhain and Viana Maya), this free App showcases quality short films (…) Continue Reading »
Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film "Uzak mı ..." ("Dûr e..." / "Distant...").
"Uzak mı..." a reçu la « Mention Spéciale du Jury » en Compétition Internationale au Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2016.
Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du (…) Lire la suite »
This week’s short comes to us courtesy of film collective Reframed, whose eerily beautiful GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT, written by and starring Reframed member Claire Gordon-Webster, has just won the Best Female Filmmaker award at the Filmic Pro Tangerine Dreams Contest competition.
The contest, now in its second year and named after feature film Tangerine, that was shot entirely on an iPhone, (…) Continue Reading »
1 July 2016
Q&A with Yony Leyser, dir. of Desire Will Set You Free, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieWhat drew you to filmmaking?
I got into a lot of trouble as a teenager. A counsellor suggested that my mom find me a creative outlet so I started practising theatre and photography. Then after a couple of years, I combined the two to make (…) Continue Reading »
30 June 2016
Q&A with Adrian Tanner, dir. of Redistributors, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieWhat was your background in film prior to Redistributors?
I started out as an editor and got indulgently trained at the BBC in Bristol on wildlife shows with David Attenborough. Then moved to London and cut a lot of TV.
What sparked the idea (…) Continue Reading »
30 June 2016
Q&A with Daniel Fitzsimmons, dir. of Native, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieI gather your background is a mix of Liverpool and California? How have both environments influenced you and your work on Native? (And does Liverpool produce better alien beaches than LA?)
In my experience Los Angeles and Liverpool are (…) Continue Reading »
Following a BAFTA nomination for their first feature film (Black Pond), Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe return with an atmospheric story of troubled sibling relationships and mysterious canals.
Though very different from the world created in Flowers (Sharpe’s TV series, currently available on Channel 4), the characters here are as eccentric as the relationships are dysfunctional.
When the (…) Continue Reading »