home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home film . aug –sep Pain and Glory, 2019 1 Women on Page 3: Nuala O’Sullivan As our Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme continues so do our interviews with inspiring women from the film industry. This month we caught up with Nuala O’Sullivan, Director of the Women Over 50 Film Festival ahead of Best of the Fest screenings at HOME this August. Turn to p15 for more info and read on for more on WOFFF. Homemcr.org/women-at-home Q: What inspired you start up the Women Over 50 Film Festival? Q: Who are your top 5 women over 50? A: As a woman in my 50s I wrote and produced short film 1. Actor and producer Frances McDormand. I could quote Microscope, in 2014. The film was about about a middle- Frances all day long on fighting sexism and ageism in the aged woman examining her life and marriage. With my film industry. Here’s one of my favorites: “The way people producer’s hat on I started going to short film festivals but I age and the signs that we show of aging is nature’s way of found I wasn’t seeing many older women on the screen and tattooing. It’s natural scarification, and the life you lead gives around socially after screenings. Not many people talked to you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map me. I felt lonely and isolated, which was the exact opposite you followed.” of how I expected to feel in a roomful of people who had the 2. Writer Ashton Applewhite. I’m reading her positive, practical same interest and passion in storytelling and film as me. book called This Chair Rocks – A Manifesto Against Ageism It got me thinking about questions like: Who’s not running just now. She says “Ageism is just prejudice against your film festivals? Who’s not on the screen? Who’s not behind future self”. When you look at it like that, it makes you see the camera? Who’s not in the room? Then, over a pint in just how damaging ageism is - to everyone. the Marlborough Pub in Brighton one night, I was talking to 3. Singer, songwriter, model, producer and actor Grace Jones. my pal, Maggi, about how I was feeling about my film and The 2017 film Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami blew me film festivals, and Maggi said, ‘Well, bugger that! Let’s start away. I love her energy, her ambition, her hats. our own film festival.” And that’s how Women Over 50 Film Festival began. 4. Writer, producer and director Jane Campion. From The Piano to Top of the Lake Jane’s voice is always original, always Q: How can people get involved in WOFFF? female-focused, always truthful. A: You can submit a film, volunteer for us or come to our 5. Can I say a gang of women who have recently turned 50 or festival. are in their early 50s as my 5th woman? Women like Julia Our next festival is Fri 20- Sun 22 Sep 2019 in Lewes, East Roberts, Viola Davis, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Reese Sussex. It’s a weekend of short films, workshops, panel Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger, women who were initially events, filmmaker Q&As, lectures, networking events and famous in front of the camera but who are increasing taking loads more. Come and join us. lewesdepot.org/wofff charge behind the camera as producers, writer and directors. Submissions open in January for WOFFF20. Head to I can’t wait to see what they create next. filmfreeway.com/WomenOver50FilmFestival and show us Q: When you’re not at work, where are you most likely to be what you’ve got. found? If you’d like to volunteer, send us an email at A: In the kitchen or on my bike [email protected]. This programme is co-curated by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Head of Film, and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies, School of Arts and Media at University of Salford. Edek, 2018 Good Girls Don’t, 2017 Life, Death and Cheerleading, 2016 2 3 NEW RELEASES Preview + Event Event Opus Zero (15) Notorious (U) Once Upon a Time…in From Fri 9 Aug From Fri 9 Aug Hollywood (18) Dir Daniel Graham/DE MX 2017/84 mins/ Spanish Dir Alfred Hitchcock/US 1946/102 mins From Wed 14 Aug and English with partial EngST Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains Dir Quentin Tarantino/US GB 2019/161 mins Willem Dafoe, Andrés Almeida, Carlos Aragón Hard Paint (CTBA) Animals (15) Photograph (15) Hitchcock’s acclaimed spy thriller Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie Paul travels to his recently deceased (Tinta Bruta) returns in a 4K restoration. Famed for Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 2 Aug father’s house in rural Mexico. The the chemistry between Grant, Bergman Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, From Fri 2 Aug Dir Sophie Hyde/GB AU IE 2019/109 mins Dir Ritesh Batra/DE IN US 2019/109 mins/Hindi and few details he knows about him Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee English with partial EngST and Rains, it presents one of the most where everything is changing. The ninth Dirs Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon/BR lie scattered between the town’s Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Sachin Khedekar anguished relationships in cinema. film from the writer-director features 2018/118 mins/Portuguese wEngST A snapshot of a modern woman with enigmatic air and the memory of a Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto A struggling street photographer in a large ensemble cast and multiple competing desires, Animals also offers woman who vanished 30 years before. Mumbai who is pressured to marry storylines in a tribute to the final In Hard Paint, recipient of the a celebration of female friendship. Meanwhile, a visiting documentary film by his grandmother convinces a shy moments of Hollywood’s Golden Age. prestigious Teddy Award at the Brilliantly performed by Grainger team witness a supernatural event that stranger to pose as his fiancée. Ritesh Berlin Film Festival, directors Filipe and Shawkat, the whip-smart script makes them question their purpose. Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon have is courtesy of author Emma Jane Batra’s follow-up to The Lunchbox is crafted a love letter to community, Unsworth. an original love story with political exploring the connections of young dimensions. queers in an environment that is at Event/ On Thu 1 Aug, 17:50 we will times hostile and isolating. have a special preview screening Event/ The 18:10 screening on Tue 6 followed by a Q&A with writer Emma Aug will be introduced by Omar Ahmed, Jane Unsworth and producer Sarah UK-based film scholar and co-curator of Brocklehurst. HOME’s Not Just Bollywood season. Event Holiday (CTBA) Balance, Not Symmetry (15) Blinded by the Light Transit (12A) Leto (15) Of Fish and Foe (12A) (12A) From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 2 Aug From Fri 16 Aug From Fri 16 Aug From Fri 16 Aug Dir Isabella Eklöf/DK NL SE 2018/93 Dir Jamie Adams/GB 2019/87 mins From Fri 9 Aug Dir Christian Petzold/DE FR 2018/102 mins/German Dir Kirill Serebrennikov/RU FR 2018/128 mins/ Dir Andy Heathcote/GB 2018/92 mins mins/Danish, English, Dutch, French with and French wEngST Russian and English with partial EngST Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite, Kate Dickie Dir Gurinder Chadha/GB 2019/117 mins The Pullars are one of the last families partial EngST Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk Balance, Not Symmetry is a cinematic Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra using traditional methods to fish for Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer Leto delivers a snapshot of Leningrad tribute to art, music and Scotland. 1987. When music fanatic Javed When fleeing Paris after the German wild Atlantic salmon off the coast of The trophy girlfriend of a Danish over the summer of 1981, when the Harrier stars as a Scottish-American discovers Springsteen, his passion for invasion, Georg escapes to Marseille. Scotland. When these methods involve drug lord sets a dangerous game in underground rock scene started art student whose privileged existence music and writing is set alight by the With nowhere to turn, he is confined killing seals, the salmon’s natural motion when she seeks the attention blossoming, and charts the coming- is thrown into a spin when her father songs of the working-class poet. Based to the corridors of a small hotel, the predators, conflict erupts. Challenging of another man while away with her of-age and rise to fame of young rock dies. Torn between supporting her on the memoir of journalist Sarfraz consulates, cafés and bars that line preconceptions, this ambiguous doc boyfriend on the Turkish Riviera. A dark singers, including Viktor Tsoi, who mother and dealing with her own loss, Manzoor, this timely coming-of-age the harbour. Everything changes when puts modern environmentalism under and very subversive gangster tale with turned out to become a pioneer of she finds herself re-examining her life. story proves that the right song has Georg falls in love with the mysterious the microscope. a twist, Holiday is the debut feature Marie. Russian rock. film from Isabella Eklöf, co-writer of the capacity to transcend race, religion and place. Border. Event/ The 18:15 screening on Tue Plus/ From Fri 9 Aug, this film will be 20 Aug will be introduced by Maggie preceded by the short film The Record Hoffgen, Freelance Film Educator.