BFI: Birds Eye View Film Festival: Women and Comedy
14 February 2008 16:13 Filed in: British Film
Institute | Screenings
Birds Eye View Film Festival joins forces with the
BFI to present two retrospective programmes, Clowning
Glories and Screwball Women, honouring the women
whose comic brilliance lit up the screen from the
earliest days of cinema to Hollywood’s golden era.
Birds Eye View Film Festival celebrates women
film-makers, and provides a positive response to the
lack of women in film. To date, only 6.5% of British
films produced in 2007 were directed by women, and
12% were written by women. Running during
International Women’s Week, the Festival premieres
and showcases outstanding features, documentary and
short films from inspirational women around the
globe.
Focusing for the first time on the wealth of women in comedy, this retrospective season throws the spotlight on those pioneering women who, through their incredible charisma and wit, will make audiences laugh today as much as they did in the 1920s. To accompany the season, there will be performances by female musicians, including Mercury nominee Zoe Rahman and internationally renowned pianist Nikki Yeoh.
For further information see www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
EVENT: Birds Eye View Film Festival Opening Gala
Birds Eye View’s opening gala showcases the very best work from women film-makers around the globe – a powerful mix of styles and genres, alongside a taste of early silent comedy with live piano accompaniment by twice Grammy-nominated Imogen Heap (Garden State soundtrack).
Celebrity host to be confirmed, followed by a party in the Film Café.
Free to all ticket holders.
Thu 6 Mar 20:10 NFT1
EVENT: Birds Eye View Comedy Lab Gala
Hosted by Jo Brand, with special guests including Shazia Mirza and Jessica Hynes, plus live music from leading jazz musicians, this special event launches Birds Eye View’s hunt for new, female comedy film-making talent in the UK. A selection of shorts includes early comedies directed by Gaumont pioneer Alice Guy (L’Hiérarchie dans l’amour; Le Frotteur). Mabel Normand, one of cinema’s first superstars, plays a bandit in Should Men Walk Home? (1927), while child star Baby Peggy goes undercover to get the perfect scoop in The Kid Reporter (1923).
Sun 9 Mar 18:45 NFT1
Focusing for the first time on the wealth of women in comedy, this retrospective season throws the spotlight on those pioneering women who, through their incredible charisma and wit, will make audiences laugh today as much as they did in the 1920s. To accompany the season, there will be performances by female musicians, including Mercury nominee Zoe Rahman and internationally renowned pianist Nikki Yeoh.
For further information see www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
EVENT: Birds Eye View Film Festival Opening Gala
Birds Eye View’s opening gala showcases the very best work from women film-makers around the globe – a powerful mix of styles and genres, alongside a taste of early silent comedy with live piano accompaniment by twice Grammy-nominated Imogen Heap (Garden State soundtrack).
Celebrity host to be confirmed, followed by a party in the Film Café.
Free to all ticket holders.
Thu 6 Mar 20:10 NFT1
EVENT: Birds Eye View Comedy Lab Gala
Hosted by Jo Brand, with special guests including Shazia Mirza and Jessica Hynes, plus live music from leading jazz musicians, this special event launches Birds Eye View’s hunt for new, female comedy film-making talent in the UK. A selection of shorts includes early comedies directed by Gaumont pioneer Alice Guy (L’Hiérarchie dans l’amour; Le Frotteur). Mabel Normand, one of cinema’s first superstars, plays a bandit in Should Men Walk Home? (1927), while child star Baby Peggy goes undercover to get the perfect scoop in The Kid Reporter (1923).
Sun 9 Mar 18:45 NFT1
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