Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 [read more]
Talk about film
Edinburgh International Film Festival's final day begins with an important and urgent conversation featuring high profile women in film and beyond.
The Festival is delighted to collaborate with Birds' Eye View, the pathfinder for films by women, on Crucial Conversations, a digital meeting of some of the most inspiring women currently working in the film industry: Phyllida Lloyd, Harriet Walter and Clare Dunne and link them to a Scottish trailblazer.
Crucial Conversations is now released on EIFF's YouTube channel.
The discussion is about the importance of collaboration from a team who have worked together for more than five years, in an all-female Shakespeare trilogy and then on the acclaimed new film Herself.
We hear from Phyllida Lloyd (The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia!) and writer Clare Dunne who also stars in the film alongside Harriet Walter, one of the most celebrated actors in the UK, whose credits include such film and stage productions as Sense and Sensibility, The Crown, Twelfth Night, Revival and Mary Stuart.
The second section of Crucial Conversations is a conversation between Birds' Eye View Director at Large Mia Bays and Shumela Ahmed, a renowned Scottish Educator and Co-Founder of the Resilience Learning Partnership who talks about the real-life aspect of the film, HERSELF, and how important lived experience and trauma-informed work is.
