Birds Eye View Film Festival March 5, 2008

The Birds Eye View Film Festival is nine days of inspiration and celebration, showcasing the very best work from women filmmakers with over 70 events including screenings, workshops and parties at 7 London venues. See www.birds-eye-view.co.uk for more info.

OVERHEATED SYMPHONY
Get started by Making Your Own Film to be a part of this groundbreaking interactive filmmaking project. Working with the theme OVERHEATED make a flick anything up to 4 min long, shooting on your mobile phone, or a digital camera, and upload it to youtube.com before March 2nd with the tag “Overheated Symphony”. We’ll download it, convert it, and pass it on to expert filmmaker/artist & innovator Sarah Turner who will sample the footage into one fiery masterpiece at a LIVE EDIT at the ICA bar on Sunday March 9th, 2pm-8pm. The result will be a unique and magical cinematic symphony. It might be passion, anger, frustration or climate change – it’s up to you! For more details visit www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/overheated.htm or subscribe to our blog http://overheatedsymphony.blogspot.com/. Happy Shooting!

SCREENWRITING FOR GAMES MASTERCLASS WITH KATIE ELLWOOD
Sunday 9th March 2-3.30pm £10
Super creative chick Katie Ellwood, writer and producer for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, unravels the "black art" of writing narratives for video games.

WOMEN IN GAMING PANEL DISCUSSION
Monday 10th March, 6.30pm ICA Nash Room £5
BEV explores the role played by women in the heavily male-dominated gaming industry and debates the gender stereotyping at play in games production and marketing in a panel discussion featuring leading designers and cultural critics Katie Ellwood, Helen Kennedy, Gabby Kent and Emma Westecott.

GAMES TOURNAMENTS
Saturday 8th March 3pm-6pm and Sunday 9th March 8pm-10pm, ICA bar
FREE

Re-live your misspent youth playing Centipede on the original ATARI console:

Centipede is a 'shoot 'em up arcade game produced by Atari in 1980. It is regarded as the first arcade game created by a woman, Dona Bailey, who programmed the game along with Ed Logg. It was also the first coin operated arcade game to have a significant female player base. The player defends against swarms of insects, completing a round after eliminating the centipede that winds down the playing field.

Also try out two fantastic new games installed with thanks to Electronic Arts (EA):
Tiger Woods on Wii-
Burnout Paradise on PS3

We know how much girls love a competition! Prizes include a Nintendo DS and several games.

01ZERO-ONE WORKSHOP: MAKING MULTI PLATFORM FILMS
Saturday 8th March 2pm – 5pm ICA BRANDON ROOM £12

Learn how to take advantage of the digital age and bring your films to a worldwide audience. This in depth seminar will provide invaluable advice on production and distribution, and how the internet and mobile technologies can transform your films into successful multi-platform content.

Official Website: http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/festival