The 5th annual Birds Eye View Film Festival (BEV) launches 5 – 13 March with over 70 films and events, showcasing a selection of the best new work from international women film-makers with a special focus this year on sex on screen. Events will take place at the BFI Southbank, ICA, The Gate cinema (Notting Hill), and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK on International Women's Day (March 8th).
The Opening Night Gala will showcase a selection of eclectic UK & international shorts, including Sam Taylor-Wood’s BAFTA nominated Love You More, Sundance winner August 15th by Jiang Xuan, plus a taste of the vampish delights to come with live music by the Elysian Quartet.
A vamped-up Closing Night Awards Party aptly wraps up the festival on Friday 13th with vixens, VJs and vodka in the presence of Gideon Reeling's (Mask of the Red Death Lates) singing femme fatales and DJ Goldierocks, following a selection of UK shorts including Rebecca Johnson’s drama Top Girl about coming of age in Brixton; Pop Art an imaginative take on friendship starring an inflatable by Amanda Boyle and a taste of hell in Hattie Dalton’s One of Those Days.
