WOFFF22 was brilliant! I can't rate the event highly enough in terms of the quality of films that they showed, the blending of the in-person and online festival, the organisation and the welcome. So proud to have taken part. And they've summed it all up pretty well in this highlights reel...
"Women Over 50 Film Festival returned to Depot for WOFFF22 on 24 September 2022 for a sold-out day filled with fantastic films, a panel event, cocktails, a huge Lewes audience, including local politicians, as well as visiting filmmakers from Scotland, England, Belgium and Canada. Directed by James Tucker from Flick's Flicks @JTVideoMaker and @flickv
Featuring Nuala O'Sullivan (WOFFF founder and director), Miranda Walker (writer Face it - Abbey), Sally Patterson (director We are here but we are lost), Jayne Toulson (documentary subject We are here but we are lost), Tom Baxter (director We are here but we are lost), Shiona McCubbin (director Maureen), Carmen Slijpen (Depot Director & Programmer), Councillor Adrian Ross (Chair of Lewes District Council), Councillor Matthew Bird (Deputy Mayor), Kerry Fox (director Topping Out), Graham Turner (actor Split), Fergus and Alex (from Box of Booze), Anna Frearson (poet and performer), Clare Holman (director Split), Tyro Heath (director Birds), Debbie Honeywood (actor Birds), Thomasina Gibson (WOFFF board member), Jane Glennie (director Because Goddess is Never Enough), Liz Jackson (directors Blind as a Beat), Lily Gontard (director Whalefall)".
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Since completing the film in the spring, Rosie Garland and I were keen to explore a companion piece and translate our work into book form. It enabled us to explore the relationship between word and image in a different way, and to include a number of poems and material created for the project but that we couldn't include in the film in the final ten minute cut. The book is available at all good booksellers, including Blackwells in the UK, Barnes & Noble in the US, and Amazon in Germany.
Next week I'm finally getting together with Rosie Garland and meeting for the screening of our film 'Because Goddess is Never Enough' as part of FilmedUp at Home Manchester next Wednesday 28th September at 6.20pm. I am very excited!
Delighted to say that Because Goddess is Never Enough has been selected for the Bucharest Feminist Film Festival next month. Thank you Romania!
MAKING POSTCARD WOMEN’S IMAGINARIUM II THEN; NOW; ?
Jewels, dreams and songs of our futures 22 September - 4 October 2022 London @ Camden Image Gallery Looking forward to this exhibition created and curated by Salma Ahmad Caller opening on 22nd September. I've played a small part in the project in designing and publishing the accompanying book which will also launch at the opening event on the 22nd - everyone is welcome from 6-8pm. More information about the book on Peculiarity Press. More information about the exhibition and contributors in the press release readable here. Or at www.salmaahmadcaller.com/making-the-postcard-womens-imaginarium Over the past few months I have been settling in to a new role as a contributing editor to MovingPoems.com alongside Dave Bonta and Marie Craven. I'm mainly looking at festival news and calls for work, but I've also been interviewing people.
First up was Adam Stone - at his suggestion, and I'm very pleased that he did suggest it because his thoughts on how to find festivals for poetry film was interesting and very useful. And the most recent was with Lee Campbell – about his wide-ranging practice and how he developed hybrid film/live performance on Zoom. A trip to the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary for the Absurd Art House Film Festival on 9th July 2022. I was lucky to be selected for 'Because Goddess is Never Enough' alongside some other films of very high standards and took the opportunity for an impromptu trip to the seaside. The venue was a lovely old music hall. More about it in my review of the event on MovingPoems.com
I didn't quite make it to the final line-up ... but considering around 500 entries to the Women X Film Festival I am still very pleased to have received an Honourable Mention from the judges for 'Because Goddess is Never Enough'. The event will take place from 2-4 September in Darlington, UK.
Merely a volunteer and participant in the genius world of artist Richard DeDominici's Redux Project, but it has been all too fabulous and liberating not to share with great excitement.
Richard collaborates with people to make low-budget recreations of scenes from movies and tv shows filmed in their original locations. I took part in the Cambridge iteration for a couple of days. More news on this to follow... as I'm hoping to connect the dots between Because Goddess is Never Enough and Sylvia: Redux – the positives and the pitfalls of retelling a woman's story, and the position of a Redux film as (Richard's description) 'a fake of a fake'. |
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