Opening Night Q&A with Sara Driver
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
6:30 PM
Sara Driver, one of the most integral figures of the Downtown New York arts scene of the late 1970s through to the 1980s, finds her way to London's East End for the UK premiere of her documentary on her contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Kicking off the festival with a female-directed work, EEFF introduces its 2018 programme as one that prioritises itself as a platform for women in the film industry. Through the feature of the 'F-Rating', the new film rating from FilmBath which highlights film made by and featuring women, EEFF is championing women in film and encouraging conversation around who tells the stories we see on screen.
BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
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Lizzie Borden - 35th Anniversary Screening
Thursday, 26 April 2018
7:00 PM
In celebration of Lizzie Borden, feminist New York filmmaker, EEFF is holding an anniversary screening of her second full-length feature film. BORN IN FLAMES (1983) is a documentary-style intersectional feminist science-fiction exploring race, sexuality, class politics, surveillance, and alternative political systems. In partnership with DISPATCH Feminist Moving Image, this screening will be introduced by Ama Josephine Budge, a science fiction and fantasy/art writer, organiser, and aspiring pleasure activist. She works across the arts, postcolonial academia, and tantric-influenced breath work for the manifestation of black, queer, and gender-fluid futures.
BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA) |
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Female Filmmakers' Panel
Sunday, 22 April 2018
5:00 PM
Constructed by a primarily female crew, starring a primarily female cast, and focusing on wholly female experiences, Deborah Haywood's PIN CUSHION is the feminist production we've been waiting for. Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, the film serves as a deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut. Following its London premiere screening, an extended panel discussion will take place to examine the role of women in contemporary filmmaking through the experiences of the cast and crew. Screening and panel discussion brought to you in partnership with Underwire Festival.
SPOTLIGHT SCREENING
PIN CUSHION (Deborah Haywood, UK)
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The Final Girls at EEFF
Saturday and Sunday, 21 & 22 April 2018
Various Screenings Vengeful female ghosts are a staple in folklore, horror fiction, and cinema. Disembodied and freed from society's dominant grasp of the female body, they are empowered to avenge those who wronged them when they were alive. The Lady in White, La Llorona, and Bloody Mary are all different iterations of the same figure. Alongside EEFF, feminist horror film collective The Final Girls take over the Masonic Temple at Andaz Liverpool Street to explore this recurring ghostly figure.
THE UNINVITED (Lewis Allen, 1944)
KURONEKO (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
THE OTHERS (Alejándro Amenábar, 2001)
WHISPERING CORRIDORS (Park Ki-hyung, 1998) |
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Women of Wonders - Shorts Programme
Wednesday, April 25 2018
6:30 PM
An evening of short films and a panel discussion to illustrate the power of women on screen - from gender reversal to interplanetary future. Focusing on the comparison between early cinema and contemporary Utopian sci-fi feminist films, this event will look at how feminist science fiction has asked how much of what we think about the role of men and women is just invented. The alternative narratives presented in the programme challenge the stereotypes and ask one main question: could we invent it differently? Panel to be hosted by four leading voices in the fields of film criticism, writing and filmmaking.
LES RÉSULTATS DU FÉMINISME (Alice Guy-Blaché, France)
GAGS AND GALS: MALE ORDER (USA)
OTTICA ZERO (Maja Borg, Sweden/UK)
AFRONAUTS (Frances Bodomo, USA)
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Female-Directed Films in Competition
Rounding out EEFF 2018 is our competition for 'Best Film', a particularly important award to EEFF as a festival that prioritises the discovery of new voices in cinema. This year, women have taken over the nominations, with five of eight nominees originating from the work of a female director. The full list of films in competition:
I AM ANOTHER YOU (Nanfu Wang, USA)
TEAM HURRICANE (Annika Berg, Denmark)
DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN (Isabel Prahl, Germany)
TIGRE (Ulises Porra & Silvina Schnicer, Argentina)
HIGH FANTASY (Jenna Cato Bass, South Africa/Luxembourg)
TIME SHARE (Sebastian Hoffmann, Mexico/Netherlands)
BALEKEMPA (Era Gowda, India)
DAHA (Onur Saylak, Turkey) |
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