Antonia Bird
Nacimiento : 1951-05-05, London, England, UK
Muerte : 2013-10-24
Historia
Directora inglesa que había acumulado una impresionante experiencia en la TV y en el teatro, cuando su primera película le trajo una fama y notoriedad que ni ella ni el estudio soñaron. Hija de un actor fracasado, comenzó su carrera a los 16 años actuando en una compañía de repertorio. Ganó algún reconocimiento internacional con Safe (1993), un telefilme sobre los adolescentes abandonados en las calles de Londres, que fuera ganador del Premio de la Academia Británica de Cine y Televisión (BAFTA) por el mejor drama unitario y el premio a Mejor Director del Festival Internacional de Cine de Edimburgo. Su debut en la dirección cinematográfica fue la controvertida y provocativa Priest: sacerdote (1994). Vigorosamente atacado por los grupos activistas de derecha, este film fue defendido por su directora como una muestra de la intolerancia y de la hipocresía dentro de la iglesia y de la sociedad. Continuó con su primer proyecto para Hollywood, Amor loco (1995), con Drew Barrymore y Chris O'Donnell. El Rostro (1997) y Ravenous (1999), fueron sus siguientes films.
Self (archive footage)
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.
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A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.
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After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
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A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.
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A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
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TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
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TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
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A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
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En 1847, el capitán John Boyd, que ha cometido una falta grave durante la guerra entre Méjico y EE.UU., es enviado a un remoto fuerte de Sierra Nevada. Un día, Colqhoun, un extraño personaje, sostiene que él y otros colonos, después de ser sorprendidos por una avalancha, quedaron encerrados durante largo tiempo en una cueva, logrando sobrevivir gracias a la práctica del canibalismo. Pero la verdadera historia aún está por descubrir.
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Un grupo de hombres sólo ha encontrado una manera de salir adelante: los robos a mano armada. Su último trabajo les va a traer más problemas de los previstos. El botín es una decepción. Muy poco para repartir. Cuando el dinero desaparece está claro que alguien ha decidido quedárselo todo para él. La banda no está dispuesta a dejar escapar al traidor, aunque primero han de averiguar quién es.
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Matt se muestra encandilado por Casey, una nueva alumna de su instituto. De noche la espía con su telescopio pero no se atreve a invitarla a salir. Finalmente van juntos a un concierto de rock. Se enamoran. Pero Casey sufre depresión clínica y es hospitalizada tras un intento de suicidio. Matt la ayuda a escapar y huyen juntos hacia México.
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En la Irlanda actual, el padre Greg Pilkington, un joven sacerdote católico, llega a un pueblo para sustituir al antiguo párroco, recientemente fallecido. Pronto tendrá que afrontar dos espinosos problemas: el del secreto de la confesión, aun cuando se trate de delitos denunciables, y el de su homosexualidad, que mantiene en secreto.
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Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
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While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
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A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Harriet Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Bill Nighy)
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Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
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Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world
Herself
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.
Executive Producer
Playwright Trevor Griffiths' Oi For England, originally set in Moss Side, was first screened by Central TV in April 1982. It was then staged at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by the late, then resident director Antonia Bird and featured Paul McGann, Robin Hayter, Dorian Healy, Peter Lovstrom, Paul Moriarty, and Beverley Martin in the cast. The play toured youth clubs and community centres across London in a bid to engage young people in the social and political issues of the day and to unite them against racism and fascism. This film replete with exclusive interviews from Griffiths, musical director Andy Roberts and guests Alan Gilbey (east end writer) and Micky Geggus (Cockney Rejects) looks back at the tour by way of a reunion of the play's original cast and crew almost 30 years later.
