Wednesday 9 December on BBC4 23.00 (11pm) The Man was Flinders Petrie, an eccentric Brit who set off to measure the Egyptian pyramids, and went on to establish the theory and practice of modern archaeology. Clips available here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f13f4 Presenter Chris Naunton, Exec Producer Christina Macauley, and none of us can remember how many times […]
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcypKzDtg1c Someone just sent me this link to post screening Q+A back in 2014 – I didn’t realise it was online – thanks!
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I am currently working with my old friend and BBC mentor Angela Holdsworth, on a collection of video biographies of women lawyers. The First Hundred Years project celebrates the centenary of women entering the legal profession in 1919, following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act. It’s been a great pleasure to interview some of the most […]
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Delighted to report that Bastards has been selected by two Turkish women’s film festivals, the International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels, and the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival in Ankara in May. Filmmor started 12 years ago “by women and for women” with the words “women make movies”, sets out on its journey […]
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Bastards continues to enjoy screenings in the UK and around the world. Two screenings on International Women’s Day, and more coming up …. Sunday 8 March Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK Sunday 8 March Arab Women’s Film Festival in The Hague, Holland Thursday 12 March Pembrokeshire Women’s Festival in Haverfordwest, UK Wednesday 25 March Salisbury Arts […]
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On the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11 it’s a good moment to report on the interfaith haven that is the International Festival of Muslim Cinema, taking place now in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan. Whatever the fearsome history of the Tatars (whom we know as the bloodthirsty Tartars) their republic is now […]
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It was a great honour for my film Bastards to be selected to open Morocco’s international documentary festival Fidadoc in April. Lamia Faridi, the heroic lawyer who features in the film, came with me to the screening in front ot the French Consul, the Mayor of Agadir, filmmakers from all over the world, and the […]
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In all the discussion of World War I, its heroism and its futility, a word is often used to describe the soldiers who died. They are the fallen. Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) memorably describes them in his poem For The Fallen: With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the […]
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…says Shereen El Feki in her excellent TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/shereen_el_feki_a_little_told_tale_of_sex_and_sensuality.html I recommend it!
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A citizen of the world. A secular saint. An icon of reconciliation. The father of a nation. A profoundly good human being. Madiba. Who can find the words to describe Nelson Mandela? Archbishop Tutu perhaps.Who doesn’t feel a sense of loss at his death? Racist bigots perhaps. I want to record my own memories in […]
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