Birds’ Eye View, a UK organisation that campaigns to support women and non-binary people in all aspects of film, has named the writers, directors and producers who will take part in the 2022-2023 Filmonomics programme, as part of the Reclaim the Frame x International project.
The UK version of the Filmonomics business training programme for filmmakers from marginalised genders has undergone six iterations under Birds’ Eye View’s leadership. The training is aimed at up-and-coming filmmakers and balances the creative and commercial aspects of filmmaking and production.
The latest Filmonomics programme is being run by the consortia behind the Reclaim The Frame x International project – an initiative that launched on International Women’s Day 2022, with backing from the British Council, that aims to support culturally diverse women and non-binary filmmakers based in Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Taiwan and the UK through the circulation of filmmakers’ works. The international women’s festivals taking part in the project, alongside Birds’ Eye View, are Turkey’s Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Tunisia’s Regards de Femmes International Film Festival and Taiwan’s Women Make Waves International Film Festival.
The Filmonomics course will be led by director of Birds’ Eye View Melanie Iredale and Birds’ Eye View training manager Simone Glover, with input from Isra Al Kassi (Birds’ Eye View), Azza Jedidi and Manel Souissi (Regards de Femmes), Fatma Edemen and Nil Kural (Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival) and Huei-Yin-Chen and Yi Chou (Women Make Waves International Film Festival).
It will run as an online programme from September 2022 through to International Women’s Day in March 2023, with participants who are based in, or diaspora of, Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Taiwan and the UK.
Speakers and coaches that will help advise the filmmakers include the writer-director of Venice 2020 title Ghosts, Turkish filmmaker Azra Deniz Okyay; the Tunisian filmmaker behind Cannes 2021 title A Tale Of Love And Desire, Leyla Bouzid; the executive director of the UK’s Comscore, Lucy Jones; and Paul Sng, the UK co-writer-director of Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché and co-founder of production outfit LS Films, who has previously been supported by the programme.
Reclaim the Frame x International Filmonomics 2022-23 participants
Aephie Chen, writer-director (Tai-UK)
Aycan Aluçlu, producer (Turkey)
Belkıs Bayrak, writer-director-producer (Turkey)
Burcak Dilekli, writer-director-producer (Turkey)
Cemre Yilmaz, writer-director-producer (Turkey)
Chia-Hsuan Tan, writer-director-producer (Tai)
Derya Durmaz, writer-director-producer (Turkey-Ger)
Hala El Kouch, writer-director-producer (Leb)
Emna Mrabet, writer-director (Tunisia-Fra)
H. Işık, writer-director (Turkey)
Marie-Rose Osta, writer-producer (Leb)
Merve Bozcu, writer-director-producer (Turkey)
J Triangular, writer-director (Tai)
Safa Ghali, writer-director-producer (Tunisia)
Sana Jaziri, writer-director (Tunisia)
Sheng Ting Shen, director (Tai-US)
Sis Gurdal, writer-director-producer (Turkey-Sp)
Yara Lahoud, writer-director (Leb)
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