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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Underwire Film Festival had its launch last Thursday and I had the pleasure of being there. A festival that aims to showcase the raw cinematic talents of female filmmakers, it focuses particularly on women at the beginning of their filmmaking careers. Receiving over 100 shorts in the two [...]
UnderWire: Editing
The final category shown at UnderWire was Editing. Probably the largest part of the industry still predominantly known as a man’s job, years ago in the days of cutting and splicing, editing was almost seen as a sewing technique allowing women to fill editing houses. As the edit become more technical and computer based, men [...]
UnderWire: Directing
The directing category brought along two films right up my street- beautifully shot and composed, yet sinister and dark. Beautiful Enough is a haunting but gorgeously shot film. A dark look at our cultural obsession with beauty, a young girl becomes fixated with images of women from magazines. When her parents go to bed, she [...]
UnderWire: Cinematography
There was one film that will undoubtedly win this category. Sis, written and directed by Deborah Haywood and shot by Director of Photography Gabi Norland alongside a crew full of females. Gabi Norland has spent the past ten years working through camera departments for film and TV leading her to this, her first work as [...]
UnderWire: Producing
Part of Me is a film that certainly leaves an impression. In many ways a quite disturbing short, as a viewer you’re left with questions that remain unanswered. A film about two women’s relationship; Nathalie is left distraught when the two closest people in her life betray her. With minimum dialog featured throughout the script, [...]
UnderWire: Screenwriting
The two films I’ve chosen to mention from UnderWire’s Screenwriting category were actually old favourites of mine from a past Filmstock Festival (RIP) and London’s Short and Sweet film night. Mother, Mine is the haunting story of the young Alison, grieving the death of her adoptive mother she sets out on a quest to find [...]
UnderWire: Representation
The opening night of the first ever UnderWire Film Festival began on Thursday with five short films within the Representation category. This category was designed to show films that question societies’ norms of women and show them in a different light to how they’re often depicted; the only category in the festival that both men [...]
ÉCU2010: The Shorts
Before the films started, the owner of the Cinéma le Grand Action, an intense-looking woman with miraculous cheekbones and a stubborn, unwavering coiffure that could only have been coiffed here in Paris, took center-floor to speak. She was excited and gracious, and her energy zapped away my roly-poly wine catalepsy. Well, enough pussyfooting. I’m going [...]
Filmstock 11: The Best of the Shorts
The Filmstock short weekend has become somewhat of an annual event in my life in recent years and whatever I had planned for my summer or winter (the festival moved dates during its lifetime), I always made sure these dates were free in my diary. However, after 2009, I’ll have a big hole in my [...]
Short of the Week Piece
Despite my obvious comfort in the world of waveforms, Skype interviews and headphones I have from time to time put pen to paper or rather managed to type out a couple hundred words. Andrew S. Allen who was kind enough to let us show his animation Flight and spend some time with us back on [...]
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