Birds Eye View Film Festival @ Duke of Yorks Picturehouse
Published 1st Nov 2006 by Laura Winton

Birds Eye View celebrates women’s vision in film.  Innovative, intelligent, bold, dynamic, this is a groundbreaking initiative with a fresh perspective, launching new talent to challenge and to entertain. Birds Eye View is a positive response to the fact that women make up only 7% directors in what is the most powerful medium in the world.   "If this is what being a bird is, I'm proud to be one" - Joanna Lumley.

This November Birds Eye View is bringing a spectacular programme of diverse and innovative short films, originally screened as part of the sell out 2006 Birds Eye View Film Festival, to CINECITY; Brighton’s International Film Festival.

The programme, presented by award winning comedienne Shazia Mirza ("Sticks the knife into political correctness with hilarious effect. A must see" Attitude Magazine), includes an Oscar nominated animation about a badger & some nuclear missiles; a controversial Jameson Short Film award winning masturbatory puppet fantasy; and the sexy and slick winner of the Birds Eye View Film Festival Best Short Drama Award – ‘Cologne’ that tells the story of a relationship complicated by secrecy and infidelity.

Birds Eye View Short Film Programme:

COLOGNE - Belgium 2004, 20‘, Dir. Kaat Beels
Winner of the Birds Eye View Best Short Drama Award
Two lovers escape to Cologne for a romantic weekend, but what are they really running from? A smart and symbolic dramatisation of a relationship complicated by secrecy and infidelity.

SUSIE - UK 2005, 3’7’’, Dir. Cathy Snelling
Winner of the Jameson Short Film Award
Controversial textiles animation a woman’s masturbatory fantasies become a bizarre folk tale about a voracious vagina that cannot be silenced.

KITCHEN - France 2005, 14' 30“, Dir. Alice Winocour
Screened at Cannes and winner of the Gold Plaque at Chicago.
Black comedy in which a woman, her husband and two lobsters make a recipe that turns sour.

BADGERED dir. Sharon Colman (UK), 6min, 2005
**Oscar nominated** Winner of the Birds Eye View Best Animation
Animation from NFTS student. The tale of a badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.

TES CHEVEUX NOIRS IHSAN– USA 2005, 14’, Dir Tala Hadid
Laden with awards from Berlin and Rotterdam, ‘Your Dark Hair Ihsan' is the moving account of a man returning to his native North Africa after a long absence to confront his past and the mother who abandoned him as a child.

The event will take place on Sunday 26th November 2006 at Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton.  Tickets: £6.50/£5 members/£5.50 concessions.

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