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Posted on 24 septembre 2016
Rencontre avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice de Uzak mı...
par ClotildeClotilde 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 court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film Uzak mı... . La (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 3 July 2016
Short of the Week - GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT - Filmic Pro Winner
by Abla KandalaftThis 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, requires participants to make a short film using the FiLMiC Pro phone (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 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 films. I made my first documentary when I was 16.
...and what led you to Berlin and its underground scene?
I came to Berlin for a semester when I was at university. It was the opposite of where I was living (NYC). There is common sense in politics. (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 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 behind the film? Do you have a background in PR? I worked for some years filming corporate CEO interviews where people talked utter drivel. I kept wondering ‘What if one day someone told the truth?’ - this gave me the idea for the inciting incident of (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 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 generally open and welcoming to outside influences and people, but on this movie that is not the sort of environment we needed the characters to inhabit. I wanted to burden Cane and Eva with an insidious social claustrophobia that can either be a help or a (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 27 June 2016
The Darkest Universe - East End Film Festival 2016
by Anne-Sophie MarieFollowing 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 police give up searching for Zach’s sister Alice (played the very watchable Tiani Ghosh, who is also Will (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 26 June 2016
Short of the Week - Mother
by Abla KandalaftLara has always lived in the shadow of her mother. That is, until the morning of one life-changing decision that Lara knows must be made alone.
This week’s pick is Marc Hardman’s Mother, starring Jumaan Short & Miriam Margolyes, a moving, well-paced 10 minute drama.
The film is one of many entries in this year’s Women’s Voices Now festival. To view it and vote, click here. Voting is open until 1 (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 23 June 2016
Tales from the Two Puddings - East End Film Festival 2016
by Anne-Sophie MarieBased on its landlord’s memoirs (Tales From The Two Puddings by Eddie Johnson), Rob West’s documentary focuses on the iconic East End pub’s trend-setting quirks, its links to 1960s legendary characters such as the Kray twins, Harry Redknapp and David Essex, and its influence on the Barry Keefe classic The Long Good Friday.
Between super 8 footage and 60s tunes, the film ignites a common nostalgia 1960s Stratford, that we see deeply transformed within seconds, sad that we won’t be able to (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 21 June 2016
Chasing Robert Barker - East End Film Festival 2016
This international production directed by Daniel Florenico follows David Pillard, a once talented photographer, now broken down paparazzi, as he himself chases a tabloid story. Before the film ends, David will find something quite different from what he was initially looking for.
Gudmundur Thorvaldsson is grippingly believable as the grieving and ailing photographer, as is Patrick Baladi who plays Olly, a classic London cad and David’s partner in tabloid crime.
Chasing Robert Barker - (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 21 June 2016
Love Is Thicker Than Water - East End Film Festival 2016
by Anne-Sophie MarieIn this contemporary London romance directed by award-winning director Emily Harris (Three Towers) and cult film veteran Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred), Vida, a young Jewish cellist from a wealthy background, falls madly in love with Arthur, a talented visual artist from a working class Welsh family. Will their passion for each other overcome the obstacles they face as they move in together and meet each other’s families?
Though the film may not give us a definite answer, the way its (...) Continue Reading »
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