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Dec 15, 2011 • We are very excited to announce that our Underwire 2011 Award winners have secured a screening at the 2012 London Short Film Festival. Join us on Saturday January 14th at 14:00 back at Shortwave to see the award winners from this years festival. To find out more about the screening, head here and don’t forget to...
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Nov 29, 2011 • lead image of post is Best Composer winner Victoria Wijerante with her Tatty Devine awards necklace Congraulations to all our award winners, announced at the Closing Night of UnderWire 2011! We had a fantastic final knees-up with all of our filmmakers on Saturday, as we celebrated the work that made UnderWire’s second year such a...
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Nov 27, 2011 • It feels like a life time of preparation when you’re putting on a festival, and then it’s all over, leaving you with an emotional hangover. When you finally return to “real life”, you somehow crave the adrenalin and excitement that has pumped through your veins for the last four days – you even, in a...
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Nov 26, 2011 • We weren’t prepared to feel quite so bereft after our final night of screenings yesterday. Having spent the last three evenings in such terrific company – and having made the cinema our second home – we realised we only had one more day to spend with all the people we’ve got to know at this...
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Nov 25, 2011 • After a very promising first night, we were thrilled to see the hoards come pouring back for our second evening. With a good three hours worth of shorts, the evening turned into one long film soiree as audiences moved between the screen and the bar, discussing the work and meeting each other. We also got...
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Nov 24, 2011 • Red wine, good company and some fantastic mind-feeding films – what more could we have asked for on our Opening Night? UnderWire’s second festival went off with a bang at Shortwave Cinema, with a full house of filmmakers and industry bods milling round, swapping cards and clinking glasses. There was such a spirited atmosphere, as...
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Nov 17, 2011 • How do women right now look, act and perform in music videos – from the cultural mainstream to the indie underbelly – and how much does it really matter? From the inspirational to the contentious, video clips will fuel the debate for our eclectic panellists as they mull over the pros and cons of the...
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Nov 16, 2011 • Does being a woman on both sides of the camera compromise or strengthen the feminist agenda in your work? Are you the subject, object, or the collaborating voyeur? How can you avoid re-enforcing those representations that you intend to subvert? Join a panel of artists, curators and writers to explore new and old challenges facing...
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Nov 15, 2011 • To celebrate Underwire’s introduction of a competition for female film writers, the festival presents an interactive workshop for aspiring critics, curious readers and film fans wanting to join the conversation. Speakers including Catharine Bray (Film4), Guy Lodge (Variety), Frances Morgan (Sight & Sound), Hannah Patterson (Kamera Books) and Virginie Sélavy (Electric Sheep) will give a...
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Nov 14, 2011 • The Underwire Awards 2011 will take place on the evening of Saturday 26th November. For Underwire, awards should be more than having something shiny for your mantlepiece! We want to award our winners something that will support their continued development and we’ve been working hard finding partners who think the same too. We’ve got some...
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Nov 9, 2011 • One of the great perks of running UnderWire is getting to meet so many interesting and creative people that we may never have otherwise crossed-paths with. Bidisha is one such person. She very kindly got in touch during the early stages of the festival to give her support, and we immediately wanted to get her...
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Nov 5, 2011 • This year, UnderWire launched a new awards category to recognise and encourage the work of women who were writing about film journalistically, but who perhaps had not yet been published or had the opportunity to share their work. Whilst there are growing numbers of women who are resident or freelance film critics for broadsheet and...
