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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Release: 2016-05-12
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 8.0
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Antonia Bird
as Self (archive footage)
Kate Hardie
as Self
Robert Carlyle
as Self
Mark Cousins
as Self
Irvine Welsh
as Self
Steven Mackintosh
as Self
Anita Dobson
as Self
Florian Hoffmeister
as Self
David M. Thompson
as Self
Jonathan Powell
as Self
Paul Unwin
as Self
Mark Gill
as Self
Kay Mellor
as Self
