Branchage-eye view of what's coming up at Birds Eye View film fest

Tickets have just gone on sale for Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010, a week of joy in venues across London, and there's just so much to look forward to in their lovely line up that all work has stopped in the Branchage office for 15 minutes of programme-analysing while we decide what we want to go to!  Join us on this little adventure if you will...

We're partnering up with them to present a screening of Rough Aunties, but aside from that huge highlight, we're loving the look of their features from across the globe - US/Palestinian drama Amreeka, Austrian Jessica Hausner's hotly-tipped Lourdes and work from the new generation of Kenyan filmmakers Wanuri Kahiu and Judy Kibinge.  And let's face it, we all want to check out Drew Barrymore's roller-tastic directorial debut Whip It (Ellen Page, Julliette Lewis, Drew Barrymore, Roller Derby - oh the joy!).

Being avid documentary fans, Team Branchage are also chomping at the bit to see Junior, which won the audience award at the UK's biggest documentary film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest, and parrrrticularly interested in She Is The Matador about Spanish tradition and (it's all in the title really) female matadors.

Then there's their brilliant Music Video showcase presented by Miranda Sawyer (Branchage hearts the Sawyer) and their whole Innovation Strand which enlightens us on cutting edge new technologies every year... and which we then discuss nonchalantly at dinner parties for months to come.

Tons more, may have to post about the Susanne Bier masterclass and retrospective and the Mira Calix / Lotte Reiniger live score separately, once we've got our breath back.

Phew, good to get that all off our chests.  And now back to work...

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