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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014: Review Roundup

by Mairéad Roche 16 April 2014

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Our coverage of the excellent Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014 is brought to a close by this selection of reviews by Mairéad Roche. Reviews of I am Yours, Belleville Baby and Gabrielle

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014: Girlfriends (1978)

by Maryann O'Connor 15 April 2014

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As someone who doesn’t particularly care for comparing films, the introduction to Sunday night’s screening of Girlfriends (1978) by I am Dora front woman Jemma Desai resounded in the ol’ brain and heart. Jemma told us persons there present that the film we were about to see was most commonly mentioned in conjunction with some […]

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014: Gone Too Far

by Daniel Goodwin 12 April 2014

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Many films have been made about British youth culture over the last decade but few can be held up as examples of great film-making. Even less are based around London’s African/ Caribbean communities and hardly any portray the youth of today in a positive light. But because of the overabundance, when it came to adapting […]

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014: Lucky

by Daniel Goodwin 11 April 2014

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Laura Checkoway’s documentary about young, homeless mother Lucky Torres and her battle through life in downtown New York is an unyielding exposé of a troubled soul struggling to raise a family during times of hardship.

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014

by Maryann O'Connor 7 April 2014

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“Birds Eye View showcases and explores the outstanding contribution of Women Film Practitioners to Cinema”. And that is what the film festival (8 -13 April 2014) does, in the words of its creators

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