Birds Eye View Film Festival

birds eye view showcases and explores the outstanding contribution of women film practitioners to cinema. our annual film festival delivers the best of international creative vision to audiences across the uk birds eye view film festival was the vision of rachel millward and pinny grylls as a response to the industry numbers indicating that men directed 92% of films on general release. they set out to create a festival that celebrated female filmmakers. starting out as a short film festival bev has grown to become one of the most respected platforms for showcasing female film talent. over the last 12 years bev has developed a number of partnerships including events with oxfam, whistles, southbank centre and wow festival and media partnerships including marie claire and moviescope. guest speakers at the festivals have included juliet stevenson, gillian anderson, zoe wanamaker, rosamund pike, hayley atwell and in 2013, jodie whittaker who declared that ‘women are not a genre.’ bev consis