On this week's podcast we celebrate the best of brief-but-beautiful cinema at London's Rushes Soho Shorts film festival.
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
We talk to the writer/director Deborah Haywood, whose film, Sis, takes a courageously comic look at society's fear of paedophiles through the eyes of two young girls. Deborah talks about making the film in her native Derbyshire and how important the doomed UK Film Council was in the realisation of her project.
Carol Salter's film Unearthing The Pen took the best documentary prize at the festival. Carol talks about traveling to northern Uganda to make her short, a remarkable look at the life of Locheng, a young boy whose dream to learn to read and write is thwarted by a curse his elders put upon the written word 40 years ago.
Remi Weekes is a young London director whose film Exhale has a particularly sparse and distinct cinematic style. Exhale is...
- 8/5/2010
- by Henry Barnes, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
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