International Women's Day

International Women’s Day

Every year, around the world, March 8 is marked as International Women’s Day. This feature in The Big Issue shows 7 ways to celebrate from your living room.

’It’s a time to recognise female trailblazers, to agitate for political change, to connect with women’s history and to take action for gender equality.​’ Read More

Zarah Sultana writes about the radical socialist and internationalist roots of #InternationalWomensDay in this article in Tribune Magazine.

Women in Film: BBC Introducing Arts

​Cultural historian Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing and exciting short films by emerging women directors and artists. Each film gives a female perspective on modern-day topics from body image and new love to grief and belonging. Expect honest and refreshing storytelling that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you think.​

WATCH: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t0xs​

Women with Movie Cameras - MUBI​

​​Women with Movie Camera’s is a great selection of films curated on Mubi, including one of my favourites - Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher 

Get Student account for Free​ at: https://mubi.com/student ​
Then go to: https://mubi.com/specials/women-with-movie-cameras ​

Cables + Cameras ‘In conversation with Director / Producer Michelle Pascal

This is an International Women’s day special with director / producer Michelle Pascal. ‘We hope this interview will inspire the next generation of women of colour into the film & TV industry. This is a special day to share knowledge and experiences to uplift women in all creative sectors. We will be discussing her journey over the last 19 years in the film and TV industry. This is her first ever interview talking about navigating as a P.O.C woman in the creative sector as a filmmaker and a director.’ Hosted by Junior Saunders.

For more information about future Cables & Cameras events, visit www.cablesandcameras.com

#IWD2021 #InternationalWomensDay @cables_cameras @michellepascal

Women in Film - BFI Sight and Sound

See BFI - Sight & Sound’s ongoing coverage of women’s cinema, from female-focussed films and movies made by women to reports and comment on the ongoing underrepresentation of women in the film industry at large. Visit Archive

Women Vs Hollywood - Helen O'Hara

Film critic Helen O'Hara celebrates Hollywood's female pioneers - women who fought sexism and the studio system to find their own voices and change film forever.

BBC Radio 4 Book of the week

Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sy4d

Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/women-vs-hollywood/helen-ohara/9781472144430

Helen was also on BBC 6 Music, Lauren Laverne - 10/3/21 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000szcm

Liberation, Elevation, Education

Also see:

• Birds Eye View: A Pathfinder For Films By Women - Facebook - Website
  

BFI Flare - London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival

Wednesday 17 to Sunday 28 March 2021

Join BFI Flare for 12 days of the best new LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world, special events and more.

What to expect

If you’re in the UK

• Feature film premieres and free short films on BFI Player

• Watch films any time during the festival

• Exclusive Q&As and introductions

• Closed captioning and audio description on English-language films

Free to watch worldwide

• Virtual events programme including Screen Talks, with BSL and closed captioning

• #FiveFilmsForFreedom: 5 short films presented in partnership with British Council

Find out more

Dates for the diary

Tuesday 23 February 6pm
Programme launch on BFI YouTube and BFI Flare Facebook.

Thursday 25 February
Priority booking opens for BFI Patrons and BFI Champions.

Friday 26 February
Priority booking opens for BFI Members.

Tuesday 2 March
Public booking opens.

Wednesday 17 to Sunday 28 March
The festival takes place.

World premieres of Rebel Dykes and Firebird announced for 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival

More info at: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-flare-rebel-dykes-firebird and https://www.bfi.org.uk/flare

BFI Future Film Festival

Some great talks and events in this year's free online BFI Future Film Festival, including Jeremy Deller workshop about creative use of archives and Will Hooper discussing the collaborative process of making Dua Lipa’s visual mixtape, Future Nostalgia, in lockdown on Saturday.

Also check out today’s session on a ‘How to be a successful freelancer in the screen industries’

Check out full programme at:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/free-industry-events-programme-date

Archive fever: unlocking the storytelling potential of film archives. Workshop with Jeremy Deller

Archives for Education are running a free Zoom workshop at 12:00 today at the BFI Future Film Festival with Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Jeremy Deller on the creative re-use of archive film: https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/events/archive-fever-unlocking-storytelling-potential-film-archives

If you miss the workshop, it will be streaming on the BFI YouTube channel afterwards. You can follow the project @makefilmhistory to stay updated with forthcoming events.

'We've been delighted to hear so many of you are using archive material from the scheme with your students during the lockdown and are very keen to hear of further films you would like to see added to the collection, so please send us your suggestions. Our archive partners are happy to consider all requests and are committed to adding more films to the project as it develops.

We'd also love to see some of the films created using archive material from the scheme. The FOCAL Awards are now open for submissions and you may be interested in submitting student work in the Short Film category: https://focalintawards.com/awards-2020/2020-production-categories/ ' Best, Shane (Archives for Education).

REGISTER HERE

Jeremy Deller is great artist and filmmaker - more about his work at:

http://poool.co.uk/jeremy-deller

UCW is member of Archives for Education - 'The Archives for Education and Make Film History projects make available over 200 films from the BFI National Archive, BBC Archive, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive, the Irish Film Institute and the London Community Video Archive for creative reuse by young filmmakers in schools, film training and higher education across the UK and Ireland.' More details at: https://www.archivesforeducation.com/ If you wish to use this speak with Rich or Ross.

Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Arts Lab International - Collaborative arts projects

Rebekah Tolley - will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Monday 25th January 2021. This seminar will be focussed on the Collaborative arts projects Rebekah does as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/

Watch recording of Meeting on Teams here (you will need your student ws login)

ArtsLab international is a studio / laboratory, for collaborative art projects.

Founded in the UK by artists: Darryl Georgiou & Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou. 

Joining the Dots…
Georgiou & Tolley work across lens based media, technologies and platforms, to visualise and realise their ideas. ‘Joining the dots’ and gathering data, in an attempt to understand the past, and set a wider context for making new work in the here and now. Exploring the language of art, image sound and radio, often researching the hauntology of ‘how places feel’ (Genius loci).

More about Rebekah’s other work

From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.

Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.

Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.

Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'

Visit: http://poool.co.uk/rebekah-tolley

Rebekah’s previous seminar, Thursday 10th December 2020, focussed on Documentary Film

UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).

Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:

Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.

The Stones in the Park

The Beatles - Live at The Cavern

​Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool

​Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)

I was a soldier (1970)

We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley

Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.

​Other Films Rebekah spoke about:

Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.

Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott

​Other notes:

Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”

​Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’

Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.

Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)