The Bird's Eye View Film Festival is a creative platform for women filmmakers. In 2005 Bird's Eye View launched the UK's first major women's film festival across London's leading film venues, showing a tip-top programme of stunning and inspirational features, documentaries and short films from around the world. Each year they develop a program with more outstanding films and innovative cross-arts events, and are now equipping the next generation to break new ground through technical and creative training programs.
Birds Eye View offers four key awards to its fabulous filmmakers: Best Feature Film (for an internationally leading feature film); Best Feature Newcomer (for those debut gems and UK premieres); Best Documentary and Best Short Film. Best feature Film decided by the jury. To make sure that that the task of judging is in the very best of hands, the festival brings together a jury of top industry folk: critics, actresses, producers and distributors.
The festival program includes a diverse slate of workshops and master classes. Designed specifically with the girls in mind, these sessions bring fresh confidence and insight, whether you're preparing for your first feature, curious about this new age of multi-platform/mobile media or fancy a foray into gaming.
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Enter Your Post1
Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Best Newcomer feature –"Hotel Very Welcome"
Directed by: Sonja Heiss
Best Documentary – "Hold Me Tight Let Me Go"
Directed by: Kim Longinotto
Best Short – "Sophie "
Directed by: Birgitte Staermose
The Jury comprised of:
Best Short Film Jury:
Julia Short is co-owner of Verve Pictures, an independent distribution company which has released "Bullet Boy," the BAFTA award winner Amma Asante's "A Way of Life," Andrea Arnold's "Red Road" and Penny Woolcock's "Mischief Night."
Matthieu de Braconier manages and exec-produces Cinema Extreme: a short film scheme funded by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4. Past commissions include "Wasp" by Andrea Arnold and "Strange Little Girls" by Savina Dellicour.
Kate Vogel is the Commissioning Editor for "3 Minute Wonders," Channel 4's short documentary strand for new talent and innovation.
Barbara Stone produces features, directs documentaries and short films and founded the Gate Cinema in London. Unrelated, directed by Joanna Hogg and screened at BEV on Tuesday March 11th, is her latest production.
Best feature Film Jury
Harriet Walter is a Laurence Olivier Award winning stage actress. Her film credits include "Atonement," "Babel" and Martha Fiennes' "Chromophobia."
Damon Wise is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Times Online and Empire (for which he was previously the Film Editor).
Jane Giles , formerly Head of Acquisitions at Tartan Films UK & USA, is now Head of Content at the British Film Institute.
Sarfraz Manzoor is a leading UK journalist, author and broadcaster, regularly contributing to The Guardian. His critically acclaimed memoir "Greetings from Bury Park" was published last year.
Best Feature Newcomer Jury:
Sharman MacDonald is a playwright and novelist. Her plays include "When We Were Women" and "The Winter Guest." She has just finished writing the film "The Edge of Love" which stars her daughter Keira Knightley.
Matt Bochenski is the co-founder and editor of cutting edge independent film magazine, "Little White Lies."
Monica Ali's first novel "Brick Lane" was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It has recently been made into a feature film, directed by Sarah Gavron. Ali's second novel, "Alentejo Blue," was published in 2006.
Wendy Mitchell is the Senior Editor of Screen International, and its sister website ScreenDaily.com. Prior to that, she was based in New York as Managing Editor of independent film publication indieWIRE.
Best Documentary Jury:
Sarah Mulvey is Channel 4's Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, commissioning Cutting Edge and the documentary strand for up and coming directors, First Cut.
Geoff Andrew is a film writer and critic who worked for a number of years as Film Editor at Time Out magazine. He is currently Head of Film Programming at BFI Southbank.
Beadie Finzi produced "Unknown White Male" and is now directing two new films, "The Hunger Season" for More 4 and "Vida Ballet" for Channel 4 and Arte France. Beadie is also a director of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, and the festival director for BRITDOC
Franny Armstrong made "McLibel," watched by 35 million people and featured in the BFI's Ten Documentaries "Which Shook The World" season. She is now filming her new climate change epic, "The Age of Stupid."