The Birds Eye View First Weekenders Club promotes the opening weekends of feature films directed by women.

The success of a movie depends to a ridiculous extent on its opening weekend. To ensure we have a greater diversity of films in the cinema, we need to be canny audiences and wise up to the power of our ticket-buying. If women-directed features get good First Weekend audiences, those filmmakers are more likely to get the next film funded, and on we go...

Don't believe us? Well, maybe you'll believe Peter Bradshaw in his Guardian article Opening Weekend Psychosis.

Latest offerings:

Then she found me – opening nationwide 12 th September

Dir. Helen Hunt

USA, 2007 100 mins

http://www.thenshefoundmefilm.com/

Download an interview with director Helen Hunt:

Then She Found Me interview

Film Synopsis

Based on the eponymous first novel by writer Elinor Lipman, the film tells the funny and moving story of one woman's very unlikely path towards personal fulfilment.

Nearing 40, April Epner (Hunt), a schoolteacher in New York, wants to have a baby of her own - a desire made that much stronger by the fact that she never knew her biological mother. A snag in her plans presents itself when her sweet but immature husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) announces one night that their marriage was a mistake, leaving April devastated and bewildered. With her life in disarray, one more surprising bolt is thrown April's way in the form of Bernice (Bette Midler), an eccentric local talk show host, who declares herself to be April's birth mother.

Please bear with us while we update our archive with information about recent First Weekenders Club hit films...

FWC archive taster:

Our FIRST First Weekenders Club Film: 2 DAYS IN PARIS dir Julie Delpy

August 31st - Sept 2nd

The fantastic Julie Delpy is known and loved world-wide for her outstanding performances in a range of films from Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, to Before Sunrise and ER. She is now juggling roles behind & in front of the camera in her first feature as a director (and star!). The much-anticipated rom-com 2 DAYS IN PARIS opened nation-wide on AUGUST 31st 2007.

Check your local cinema listings and buy your tickets now!

EXCLUSIVE! BIRDS EYE VIEW MEETS JULIE DELPY:
To watch interview CLICK HERE or click below!

We caught up with actress & director Julie Delpy at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to film an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. You can find this on the the Birds Eye View Film Fest Youtube Channel or by clicking on the link above.

CRITICS RAVE ABOUT 2 DAYS IN PARIS:

"Audacious! A biting romantic comedy... Reveals more about emotinoal and sexual chemistry than any film I can recall." Stephen Nolden, New York Times

"Fearlessly Original and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny."
Karen Durlin, Elle Magazine

"Charming and Very Funny! Julie Delpy proves herself a talented filmmaker"
Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair

" Bawky, thoughtful, farcical, political and romantic, 2 Days in Paris is a completely winning comic treat!"
Nick Dawson, Filmmaker Magazine

For more info see www.2daysinparisthefilm.com