Girl in the Armchair

23/03/2020

Boudica Festival's Music video competition is back!

Details below!

Free to enter for Covkids

To enter: To enter: https://filmfreeway.com/BoudicaFestival

Boudica Festival's Music Video Competition returns for its second year.

The Boudica Music Video Competition, where we invite filmmakers/musicians to submit music videos that they have worked on which celebrates female and non-binary musicians. Dedicated to bridging the gender gap in male dominated industries, Boudica Festival wishes to celebrate women in front and behind the camera so entries with a female or non binary director/crew member will be preferable.

The films will be shortlisted by a panel of online judges, with the finalists being decided online by Boudica Festival goers/fans by voting for their favorite. Due to the coronavirus we are uncertain of when the live screening of the finalists and winner will be but we hope for them to be screened at Boudica Presents event in 2020 so please note the screening date is provisional and likely to change.

The winner will win a prize of £100

Submission link to enter: https://filmfreeway.com/BoudicaFestival

** Coventry musician's and filmmakers can enter free of charge - email [email protected] with your postcode and link to your video and answer the following questions **

- Is this video for female/ non binary musician's and if so what is their role in the band/act?
- How many female or non binary members of the crew and what were their roles?

Awards & Prizes
- Best Music Video £100

Rules & Terms
- The music video must be for a female/or non binary. act/ predominately female/ female lead
- 2 submissions maximum
- No longer than 10 minutes
- Filmmakers must have rights to the music
- Must have a least one female/ non Binary member of the film crew
- Old work is accepted as well as new work
- Deadline is 30th April 2020 at 11pm

📸 cc image from last year's winners They Come For You In The Night / directed by WeTheConspirators

25/02/2020

Love making film or watching them?

Well Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 want to hear from you!

🎬 FILM ROUNDTABLE 🎥

Do you live in Coventry, love watching or making films, or want to put on your own film screening? Are you interested in Coventry's film heritage? We want to hear from you all.

We've teamed up with Film Hub Midlands to help amplify new voices and ideas, screening events and other film-based activity in Coventry in the build-up to 2021.

Join us for a roundtable discussion on Saturday 14 March to help us develop an exciting film offer for the city.

📅 Sat 14 March, 2-4pm
📍 The Box, FarGo Village
Sign up ➡️ https://coventry-film-roundtable.eventbrite.co.uk

18/02/2020

Girls in Film is looking to fund a female-made short film
The organisation will grant £5,000 cash to a female-identifying filmmaker answering the question, “what does female strength mean to you?”

The organisation will grant £5,000 cash to a female-identifying filmmaker answering the question, “what does female strength mean to you?”

12/07/2019

Its been a bit quiet here lately as we all take time to work on different projects during our hiatus. Michelle has been working on Boudica Festival 2019 to bring the first BOUDICA MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITON!

Ahead of this year's Festival we are inviting filmmakers/musicians to submit music videos that they have worked on which celebrate female and non-binary musicians. Dedicated to bridging the gender gap in male dominated industries, Boudica Festival looks to celebrate women in front and behind the camera so entries with a female director/crew member will be preferable.

The deadline for submissions is 8th September at 11pm. We will be screening the shortlisted entries and announcing the best music video which will be judged by an all-female panel of creatives at the festival! The winner will win a prize of £100! ⭐

Find out more info and to enter your submissions here: http://boudicafestival.co.uk/music-video-competition/

🎥 Introducing the Boudica Music Video Competition! 🎥

Ahead of this year's Festival we are inviting filmmakers/musicians to submit music videos that they have worked on which celebrate female and non-binary musicians. Dedicated to bridging the gender gap in male dominated industries, Boudica Festival looks to celebrate women in front and behind the camera so entries with a female director/crew member will be preferable.

The deadline for submissions is 8th September at 11pm. We will be screening the shortlisted entries and announcing the best music video which will be judged by an all-female panel of creatives at the festival! The winner will win a prize of £100! ⭐

Find out more info and to enter your submissions here: http://boudicafestival.co.uk/music-video-competition/

19/01/2019

APPLY HERE Designed to remove barriers and increase opportunities for under-represented filmmakers, Widening the Lens 2019 will be delivered across three days in Bristol and will consist of masterclasses, round table discussions, workshops and film screenings. DATES – 20th – 22nd February 2019, ...

18/01/2019

British Nigerian director Jenn Nkiru, born and based in Peckham, started working in the industry at 15. Working her way up from runner/PA, assistant to music video director Diane Martel, to commissioning assistant at Channel 4 at just 20 years old. She then studied for three years, gaining an MFA in film directing from Howard University.

Nkiru has probably reached her widest audience so far with her work as second unit director on Beyonce & Jay-Z's music video for 'Ap***it' (2018). Shot in the Louvre, it shares themes familiar from her other projects. The centering of Africa and celebrating black art are integral to what she names “a new diasporic black renaissance'.

2017's short film 'Rebirth is Necessary', shot with 35mm film, references Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Agnes Varda, Maya Deren and more. The collage of archive footage and dance scenes, shot in London and South Africa, explores Afrofuturism and the history of black resistance and invites us to question the present and to create the future we want. It won Best Documentary at the London Independent Festival.

'Hub-Tones' (2018), a nine-minute single-shot music video directed for Kamasi Washington, further demonstrates her affinity for marrying visuals with music. Nkiru has described this relationship as a constant in her work, "they each hold equal importance and often play character roles".

Along with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Elijah Wood and Peaches, Nkiru is a founding curator of Boiler Room's video platform 4:3. Much of her work is available to watch for free on Vimeo.

Image via Instagram.

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