Seven awards granted to film venues in London.
Seven traditional and non-traditional film venues are to receive £3,000 ($5,000) each in order for them to broaden their programming as part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.
Allocated by Film London, the Film Hub London’s Boost Awards will bring film-makers from countries including Canada, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands and France to speak about their work at screening events in London.
Funding includes an expansion of A Nos Amours’ Chantal Akerman season, re-scoring of silent films in South London, Cutting East presenting Egyptian music documentary and a director Q&A, Open City Docs Fest’s retrospective of Israeli documentarian Avi Mograbi, the screening of a Canadian sci-fi film in a World War II bunker in Dalston and the screening of Dutch comedy Matterhorn with director Q&As around London, presented by Loco.
Boost Award 2014 Awardees
A Nos Amours – Chantal Akerman: Expanded
Partnering with the Ica and JW3
Screening...
Seven traditional and non-traditional film venues are to receive £3,000 ($5,000) each in order for them to broaden their programming as part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.
Allocated by Film London, the Film Hub London’s Boost Awards will bring film-makers from countries including Canada, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands and France to speak about their work at screening events in London.
Funding includes an expansion of A Nos Amours’ Chantal Akerman season, re-scoring of silent films in South London, Cutting East presenting Egyptian music documentary and a director Q&A, Open City Docs Fest’s retrospective of Israeli documentarian Avi Mograbi, the screening of a Canadian sci-fi film in a World War II bunker in Dalston and the screening of Dutch comedy Matterhorn with director Q&As around London, presented by Loco.
Boost Award 2014 Awardees
A Nos Amours – Chantal Akerman: Expanded
Partnering with the Ica and JW3
Screening...
- 4/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
An inexcusably blinkered documentary look at a modern youth movement in Cairo that utterly ignores how it cuts girls and women out of its quest for freedom. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
In the slums of Cairo, all the kids these days are into chaabi, a new form of Egyptian hip-hop-ish rap infused with traditional folk music. And by “kids,” of course, I mean boys and young men. And so does Electro Chaabi, from documentary filmmaker and French-Tunisian journalist Hind Meddeb, whom I am astonished to discover is female. In between footage of rave-like late-night street parties that lose their relatable familiarity the instant you realize there’s not a single girl or young woman bouncing up and down in time to the driving beat of the blaring music, Meddeb interviews performers, DJs, and fans,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
In the slums of Cairo, all the kids these days are into chaabi, a new form of Egyptian hip-hop-ish rap infused with traditional folk music. And by “kids,” of course, I mean boys and young men. And so does Electro Chaabi, from documentary filmmaker and French-Tunisian journalist Hind Meddeb, whom I am astonished to discover is female. In between footage of rave-like late-night street parties that lose their relatable familiarity the instant you realize there’s not a single girl or young woman bouncing up and down in time to the driving beat of the blaring music, Meddeb interviews performers, DJs, and fans,...
- 10/2/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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