Viva Brighton Issue #67 September 2018

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Tourist Destination of the Year Lewes District Business Awards <strong>2018</strong> Depot Cinema, Kitchen & Bar “This place is a triumph. 3 screen cinema … the food is superb.” TripAdvisor reviewer “Great place to go for a meal or drink. My new fave cinema … Lewes is very lucky!” TripAdvisor reviewer lewesdepot.org Next to Lewes station Pinwell Road, Lewes BN7 2JS 01273 525354 4.8 4.8 213 Facebook reviews 4.5 327 Google reviews
FILM ............................. W0FFF Women Over Fifty Film Festival Director Nuala O’Sullivan founded the Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF) in response to the evident lack of roles for older women in front of and behind the camera. “What I find, as a woman who has gone through the menopause,” Nuala tells me, “is being over fifty can be an incredibly positive and creative time. Talking to women in their fifties and beyond, it’s kind of like they have a whole new lease of life. I think the quality and quantity of work we see submitted to WOFFF really reflects that.” Sadly, the need for events like WOFFF is clear, because this work just isn’t often seen. Of the few women who direct feature films an even smaller percentage create a second, and numerous barriers prevent gender equality, including motherhood and other caring responsibilities, as Nuala explains. “We’re also talking about ageism and sexism… the ‘glamour’ and ‘beauty’ of the movie industry. All of these things mitigate quite badly against older women. As a writer and producer, I wanted to take something that was quite negative and make it into something positive, something community-focused and fun.” WOFFF started four years ago, says Nuala, “at a wee community hall in Seven Dials”. This year it is a four-day festival. The event will encompass screenings of two features and over fifty short films, workshops, networking events, talks, panel discussion and an awards ceremony. “Equality in film is something everybody has to push at,” says Nuala. “I think movements like #metoo and #whatsnext have made a massive impact in terms of how people are making work; what film crews are looking like; what behaviour is like on set, and what kind of stories we’re seeing on screen. It’s made audiences and filmmakers aware of, and crave, other stories - not only those of cis, white, straight, young men. “The thing I can do, in my way, is to celebrate older women. Organisations like Raising Films, Directors UK and Women in Film & TV are all looking at it from different angles and I think that’s the way to go. Audiences are really important - they have the power. What films do they go and see, particularly on opening weekends?” The premise of everything shown at WOFFF is that there must be a woman over fifty really driving the action on screen or as part of the core creative team. “What this means,” says Nuala, “is we’re a really inclusive festival – a documentary by a 16-year-old boy about his 53-year-old grandmother would be welcome at WOFFF. “I think women in their fifties and beyond are experienced and complex and layered and angry and exciting and sexy, so the binding theme of the festival, if there is one, is that the stories are good. It’s about weaving all of their experience and their life and their love into the work that they do… The breadth of work that’s submitted is quite amazing.” Chloë King 20th-23rd Sept at Duke of York’s Cinema and Lewes Depot. wofff.co.uk Photo of Nuala O’Sullivan by Daniel D Reimer ....49....
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