KANAVAL has been long listed for 3 BIFA awards: Best Feature Documentary, Best Debut Directors (Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton Mills) and Best Cinematography (Joel Honeywell)
KANAVAL has been selected as one of eight feature documentaries playing in the LFF Grierson Award Documentary Competition which recognises feature-length documentaries with integrity, originality and social or cultural significance.
Blue Bag Life won this year’s London Film Festival Feature Film Audience Award. Read Screen International’s review of the film https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/blue-bag-life-london-review/5175680.article
KANAVAL and BLUE BAG LIFE will both premier at this year’s LFF. More news to follow!
Congratulation to Team Dying to Divorce on winning the Best Social Issues and Current Affairs program at the 2022 Rockie Awards!
POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHE has been nominated for DEBUT DIRECTOR for Celeste Bell, BEST DOCUMENTARY and DISCOVERY awards
DYING TO DIVORCE has been nominated for BEST DOCUMENTARY
The U.K. has submitted Chloë Fairweather’s “Dying to Divorce” as its official entry into the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film category. “We are honored to represent the U.K. for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars,” said director Chloe Fairweather and producer Sinead Kirwan in a joint statement. “After five years of hard work and numerous challenges, we are so proud that the creative team and more importantly the amazing women involved in campaign work in Turkey are getting this international recognition. It is particularly exciting as it comes just two weeks before the film’s U.K. theatrical release which will coincide with the U.N.’s Campaign of 16 Days of Activism to combat gender violence – kicking off on 25th November. We are pleased that ‘Dying to Divorce’ will now be able to draw even greater attention to the fight against femicide.”
Dying to Divorce was made in association with Tigerlily Productions and executive produced by Tigerlily co-founder Natasha Dack Ojumu.
Natasha Dack Ojumu will form part of this year’s London Film Festival Grierson Documentary Award Jury https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/competition-juries-announced
Tigerlily co founder and producer Nikki Parrott and director San San Young will be presenting the work in progress feature documentary HONG KONG MIXTAPE at this year’s London Film Festival. Read more about it in this Variety article: https://tinyurl.com/2v3x2rrf
DYING TO DIVORCE recently won the Amnesty International Best Film Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was nominated for the Prix Europa Award for Best Documentary. Director Chloe Fairweather also won the Courage Award from the Journalistinnenbund e.V. (Association of Female Journalists) in Essen, Germany. Read more about Chloe and the film here: https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2021-women-directors-meet-chloe-fairweather-dying-to-divorce/
Dying to Divorce won the Jury Special Prize at this year’s Monte Carlo TV Festival
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche won the Audience Award at this year’s Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastian
Missing live theatre? Check out the two films now available to view on BBC iplayer that we produced for the #LIGHTSUP season: HALF BREED written and performed by Natasha Marshall and directed by Miranda Cromwell, co produced with Soho Theatre and BUTTERCUP written and performed by Dorcas Seb, from an original idea by Odile Mukete and directed by Julia Samuels co produced with 20 Stories High, Liverpool.
BUTTERCUP
HALF BREED
DYING TO DIVORCE will have it’s World Festival Premiere at MOVIES THAT MATTER in the Netherlands on 20th April @20.00 CET. The film has been nominated for Camera Justitia Award and Grand Jury Prize. It will also have it’s North American Premiere at HOTDOCS festival in Toronto on 29th April.
The film follows Ipek, who is part of a group of activists who fight to protect Turkish women against abuse and murder, by putting violent men behind bars. As femicides soar and Turkish society starts to fall apart, Ipek and her client’s risk everything for their freedom.
Filmed over 5 years, DYING TO DIVORCE takes viewers into the heart of Turkey's gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have eroded democratic freedoms.
Through intimately shot stories, the film gives a unique perspective on the struggle to be an independent woman in modern Turkey. Versions of the film will simultaneously be broadcast in Norway, Germany and France from the 8th/9th/10th March. Directed by Chloe Fairweather, produced by Sinead Kirwan. Exec produced by Tigerlily Productions
Tune in to BBC4 on 15th, 16th and 17th Feb at 2300 for some peace and quiet
Very pleased to have played a part in bringing this fantastic feature documentary about iconic punk singer Poly Styrene to the screen. It will have its World Premier at Glasgow Film Festival and North American Premier at SXSW. Directed by Paul Sng and Celeste Bell, Produced by Rebecca Mark Lawson and Exec Produced by Natasha Dack Ojumu and Nikki Parrott
BBC Arts turns the spotlight on theatre as it continues its Culture in Quarantine initiative – bringing arts and culture into the nation’s homes – by partnering with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays for audiences at home, BBC Lights Up.
BBC Lights Up begins in February 2021, following what has been one of the most difficult winters for the performing arts in history. The season will ‘light up’ stages and studios across the UK by supporting hard-hit organisations and artists, and ensuring that audiences at home continue to have the opportunity to enjoy theatre across BBC platforms.
Working with more than 12 theatres and theatrical producers across the UK and running for three weeks the season includes more than 15 newly-recorded plays which will be broadcast across BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Each play will be a collaboration between BBC Arts and a theatre or producer and many productions will be recorded on the stages of empty theatres.
Tigerlily is working with Soho Theatre on writer/performer Natasha Marshall’s HALF BREED directed by Miranda Cromwell, and with 20 Stories High in Liverpool on writer/performer Dorcas Seb’s BUTTERCUP directed by Julia Samuels.
Read Vanessa Thorpe’s piece about Bryony and the single mums opera here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/05/bryony-kimmings-my-opera-is-like-grayson-perry-meets-gareth-malone