Tag: Perfect 10

  • Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab Connects Nurtures Rising Filmmakers

    Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab Connects Nurtures Rising Filmmakers

    Since 2011, the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Talent Lab has nurtured a number of rising filmmakers through an assortment of masterclasses, workshops and individual mentoring sessions: Talents like Ben Sharrock (“Limbo”), Eva Riley (a recent winner BIFA winner for “Perfect 10”) and Rob Savage (“Host”) are alumni of the program. In 2019, however, the program yielded…

  • Reconditioning the kitchen sink: is British film emerging from its ‘posh phase’?

    Reconditioning the kitchen sink: is British film emerging from its ‘posh phase’?

    This year, in films such as Perfect 10, Lynn + Lucy and County Lines, working-class lives are once again making it on to the big screen. But in an industry dominated by the privately educated, can they avoid being tainted with middle-class misapprehensions?There are working-class heroes and there are unsung heroes. Take Lucy Pardee, the…