THRILLED for this year's #BIFA2024 nominees:
The love for LOVE LIES BLEEDING 🏋️♀️ is 12 nominations strong 💪
#ReclaimTheFrame backed THE OUTRUN comes out with 9 🌊🫷
BIRD and ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL both got an impressive 7 nominations 💫
Congratulations to all the nominees!👏
Launched by FilmBath's Holly Tarquini, the F-Rating has been driving change for a decade! Now on IMDb, it’s more crucial than ever in the push for gender equality in film.
At Reel Soul, we’re proud to share this mission—amplifying diverse voices and supporting women-led films!
Havana Marking’s new film, “Undercover: Exposing the Far Right,” has been pulled from @BFI LFF. They said: “the film is exceptional and easily one of the best documentaries I have seen this year..”
Havana replied: “fear is its own form of censorship”
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We’re #Hiring!
Are you highly organised, a team player & confident communicator? Do you love documentaries, factual TV & events?
We’re after an Awards Assistant to join the team ✨
Deadline 5pm Thurs 18 July. Read more & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3VOhscH
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Calling UK film critics! Girls On Film is conducting a survey on the state of film criticism in the UK in 2024 and we are keen to have the input of film critics across the UK.
If you write/broadcast about film professionally, please complete our survey:
research.net/r/8R7PPZF
Never been more impressed by a British Cabinet 🥰
Back in 2018, @RachelReevesMP wasn’t the chancellor but was showing her support for the F-Rating!
Here’s to politicians with brains, integrity and the greater good in their hearts.
Best of luck, Rachel 😘
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PLEASE if you ever encounter men in film just ask them this one question: “what’s it like to be a successful MAN in the film industry?” It will floor them. They have never had to think about themselves as representing a gender.
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Have you secured your Observer pass for Edinburgh Pitch 2024? Join us on May 28 for Scotland's only pitching forum. Connect with industry leaders and find new collaborators, get inspired and discover tomorrow's non-fiction storytellers!
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⏰ The deadline to apply for #BeyondBrontës is midday on Fri 17 May! ➡️ screenyorkshire.co.uk/beyond…
Our highly successful part-time training programme is designed to build your confidence and skills, empowering you to embark on a rewarding career in the screen industries. 🎥 📷 📺
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Do you want to work with us on championing gender equity in all film spaces?
Join our Board of Trustees as our new Chair and help lead us on our mission to #ReclaimTheFrame, follow this thread to find out more...
📅Applications close next Friday
bit.ly/RTF-ChairBoard
Sadly March is coming to a close, but we thought we’d finish on a high! Here, we speak with Anna Navas from @plymartscinema and Gali Gold from @barbicancentre about their careers as film programmers.
Thank you to @F__Rating for being an incredible partner over the last month!
6. Festival du Cannes kicks off next month, has the notoriously male dominated festival achieved gender parity with 2 out of the last 4 Palme D'or's going to female helmed features - TITANE and ANATOMY OF A FALL?
#BeyondTheBoxOffice
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BEYOND THE BOX OFFICE
In Festival du Cannes 78-year history only three female filmmakers have won the prestigious Palme d'Or award.
Jane Campion first won for THE PIANO in 1993, followed by (an unbelievable 18-year gap until 2021 when) Julia Ducournau's TITANE scooped the award.
Patience is virtue as it was only 2 years until Justine Triet's Oscar winning ANATOMY OF A FALL took the Palme D'Or last year.
In 2019, Mati Diop was the first black female filmmaker to ever be included in the competition, winning the Grand Prix for ATLANTICS (but missing out on the Palme Do'r).
Will true parity ever come to Cannes?
And this past month has seen us partner with the amazing @F__Rating, an organisation we're so happy to be showcasing! Their goal of ensuring equal representation in the film industry is one we can absolutely get behind! 💪
🔗Check out their Podcast: f-rated.org/f-rated-podcast/
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LOVE these two women: Anna Navas runs & programmes @PlymArtsCinema & was one of the very first people/places to adopt the F-Rating. Gali Gold runs & programmes @BarbicanCentre cinemas.
Listen to their conversation with @QissaTheStory
Full episode:
youtu.be/5WE_92usl3g?si=OZLj…
Sadly March is coming to a close, but we thought we’d finish on a high! Here, we speak with Anna Navas from @plymartscinema and Gali Gold from @barbicancentre about their careers as film programmers.
Thank you to @F__Rating for being an incredible partner over the last month!
5. THE PERSIAN VERSION, the cultural identity comedy (wri. & dir.) by Iranian-American, Maryam Keshavarz, is that rare thing - a studio release helmed by a woman.
In 2023, women directed 11% of the top 100 releases, and for women of colour it was less than 3%.
#BeyondTheBoxOffice
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BEYOND THE BOX OFFICE
THE PERSIAN VERSION, the cultural identity comedy written and directed Iranian- American, Maryam Keshavarz that rare thing a studio release helmed by a woman. In 2023, women directed just 11% of the top 100 grossing releases, and women of colour was less than 3%. And why do we need more of them? For one, is the way they upend movie made myths around gender to mass audiences. Look out for the film's formidable mamajoon (mother) a character the director dedicates to the fierce Iranian women out there.