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Best Girl Grip

A weekly podcast interviewing women behind-the-scenes and below-the-line of the British film industry.

tv & film film interviews

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#80: Kaila Hier, Publicist

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/04/13

This week I spoke to film publicist Kaila Hier. Kaila is a Montreal-born, formerly Berlin-based publicist and the founder of Exile PR. She has been working with film festivals for over a decade including Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, FrightFest London, Fantastic Fest in Austin, and The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, among others. Films that she’s represented such as CAM, SEA FEAVER, RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE and THE BEACH HOUSE have screened at festivals around the globe. We talk

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#79: Parisa Taghizadeh, Stills Photographer

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/03/30

My guest this week is Parisa Taghizadeh - who goes by the name Tag - and she is a stills photographer for film and television. This is a job that I was so curious to find out more about - because stills are often the very first glimpse we get of a film. We might hear whose been cast or that production is underway, but when that photograph is released it’s our first visual of what that film might look and be like and so it’s a really important role. Tag has an extensive and varied career working

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53:14

#78: Lauren McCallum, Head of European Production at...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/03/23

This week my guest is Lauren McCallum, who has worked in the VFX industry for over 15 years. And you might be thinking niche or not applicable to me, but I really urge to listen to this because Lauren’s advice and perspective on a whole array of topics is just phenomenal, frankly. Lauren is currently Head of European Production at Scanline VFX, who have worked on films like Black Widow, Joker, Stranger Things 3, Captain Marvel and Black Panther. She also worked at MPC as Head of Production on films

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55:26

#77: Grace Bridger & Runyararo Mapfumo, Producer &...

Best Girl Grip ·

2021/03/16

I spoke to Grace Bridger and Runyararo Mapfumo who are a producer / director duo that work together under the banner DessyMak films and have made a number of short films through that company. They have their own careers separately and we talk about both of them, but that producer-director relationship is such a unique thing and so I was keen to ask them about how they formed that bond and what their journey together has been like! Their short film MASTERPIECE premiered at the BFI London Film

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55:50

#76: Eva Riley, Filmmaker

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2021/03/08

Welcome to Series 4 of Best Girl Grip! My first guest of the series is the wonderful Eva Riley. Eva is a Scottish director and screenwriter based in Brighton. She graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2015, whereupon her final year film Patriot premiered in competition at Cannes. In 2016, she was commissioned to write and direct Diagnosis by BBC Films and she was subsequently named a Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow’. Eva's first feature Perfect 10 was developed and

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36:46

Episode 75: Emily Morgan, Producer

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/12/22

My guest this week is none other than Emily Morgan, a BAFTA-winning film producer whom I admire greatly. Emily started out in distribution and as a production freelancer for various companies before setting up her own production outfit Quiddity Films which is supported by a BFI Vision Award. In 2018, she won the aforementioned BAFTA for Outstanding Debut Producer for Rungano Nyoni's I Am Not A Witch, which premiered at Cannes, screened at the Toronto Film Festival and Sundance, was nominated for an

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38:31

Episode 74: Louisa Maycock, Founder & CEO of Girls on...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/12/18

My guest this week is Louisa Maycock - the creator, owner and mastermind of the hugely brilliant brand Girls on Tops. If you don’t know them, I’m sure you’ll have seen one of their t-shirts out and about, particularly if you used to frequent film festivals. Louisa prints and sells white t-shirts that feature the names of celebrated and trailblazing women in the film industry including Tilda Swinton, Claire Denis, Lulu Wang, Greta Gerwig and Ava DuVernay. This year they released editions with Miranda

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Episode 73: Anna Bogutskaya, Programmer, Broadcaster,...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/12/11

My guest this week is Anna Bogutskaya. Anna used to work at the BFI around the same time I was there and I believe I’m right in thinking she was the youngest programmer at the BFI Southbank - at the time, not of all time - although that might also be true. Anyway all this to say I always admired Anna from afar, she seemed incredibly ambitious and accomplished and I thought what she was doing both within the BFI - and outside of it - was refreshing and almost revolutionary in that she was often

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32:05

Episode 72: Gemma Cole, Agency Director & Artist

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/12/04

This week I spoke to the lovely Gemma Cole, an agency director who comes from a background in film marketing. She’s worked for Ritzy Picturehouse, Picturehouse Entertainment and until quite recently elevenfiftyfive, a company whose mission is to support the film community by connecting brands with films through consultancy, partnerships and experience-building. Gemma has recently ventured out to co-create her own agency called Dive, we talk about that process and the motivation behind it. We also

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22:08

Episode 71: Georgina Higgins, Script Supervisor

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/11/27

My guest this week is Georgina Higgins, a Script Supervisor, whose recent credits include the Film4 and BFI-backed production Limbo from director Ben Sharrock, which was selected for Cannes this year and very well reviewed at the London Film Festival; a moving drama called Monsoon starring Henry Golding which is on BBC Two tomorrow night and will then be on BBC iPlayer. She also worked on Michaela Coel’s astonishing TV series I May Destroy You, Sky Atlantic & Showtime’s Patrick Melrose and the

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34:49

Episode 70: Joanne Michael, Director of Marketing at...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/11/24

This week my guest is Joanne Michael, the Director of Marketing and Distribution at Cornerstone, an international sales and financing company that launched in 2015. Some of their recent titles include Herself directed Phyllida Lloyd and produced by Element Pictures, Josephine Decker’s enthralling psycho-drama Shirley starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg, the screen adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s Animals as well as an upcoming project called The Fantastic Flitcrofts starring Mark

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Episode 69: Jayisha Patel, VR Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/11/10

This week my guest is Jayisha Patel, an award-winning British filmmaker who works at the intersection of cinematic film and VR. Her short film, A Paradise, premiered at the Berlinale in 2014 and was nominated for over 37 international awards. In 2017 she directed Notes to My Father, an award winning VR experience commissioned by Oculus. The film launched at Oculus House during the Sundance Film Festival, before premiering at SXSW and Locarno. It won the UN Women’s Global Voices award for best

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44:49

Episode 68: Gabrielle Stewart, Managing Director of...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/11/03

I’m excited for this episode because international sales isn’t a realm of the industry we’ve covered massively on the podcast and to my mind it’s obviously a hugely important chunk of the film’s journey, but one that sort of gets maybe less attention, particularly once a film is out in cinemas, we more often than note associate the film with its distributor or producer but sales agents are the bridge between those two entities and who better to give us insight into that world than Gabrielle Stewart

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Episode 67: Malinda Kaur, 2nd Assistant Director

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/10/20

This week’s guest is Malinda Kaur, a second assistant director whose recent credits include Clio Barnard’s upcoming film Ali & Ava, HBO & Sky Atlantic’s TV series The Third Day, British independent dramas Rocks and Monsoon and a little show calling Killing Eve. Malinda started out as a floor runner working on Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, before becoming a third assistant director. We discuss in-depth that particular hierarchy and how her responsibilities change depending on both the role, and

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37:01

Episode 66: Dionne Farrell, Development Executive

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/10/13

I am very thrilled to be able to introduce Dionne Farrell as this week’s podcast guest. Dionne is a Development Executive at BBC Films where she has worked across several of their releases, including Rapman’s Blue Story and Francis Lee’s Ammonite which is closing this year’s London Film Festival. Dionne began her career as an office runner for Raw before moving into script development as the BFI’s Script Editor Trainee. We talk about those experiences, as well as gaining confidence, learning when

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Episode 65: Sophie O'Neill, Costume Designer

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/10/06

This week my guest is Sophie O’Neill, a costume designer whose credits include Clio Barnard’s upcoming film Ali & Ava, costume supervising on British indie films like Jawbone, Iona and The Selfish Giant and costume buying for the likes of Everest and the TV series The Last Panthers. Don’t worry, if you’re wondering what all those different roles mean, we break it down. We also talk about how she finds inspiration, where she looks for costumes and what happens to them after a production wraps, how

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Episode 64: Anu Henriques, Associate Director of...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/09/29

Hello podpals and welcome to Season 3 of Best Girl Grip, I’m very excited to be back with another round of guests who will help guide us through the many different roles in the film industry. It feels very special to be launching a new series with this week’s guest, because it has been a long-time coming and it was an interview that was delayed due to Covid, and that guest is Anu Henriques. Anu is a development and production assistant at Fable Pictures, whose films include Stan & Ollie and Wild

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54:01

Episode 063: Brett Story, Non-Fiction Filmmaker

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/08/21

I’ve interrupted my own break to deliver a bonus episode of sorts. It was recorded last week, and I didn’t want to hold onto it for a new season, it was a really mind-expanding conversation if that’s not too self-important to say and I wanted to share it ASAP. It’s with award-winning non-fiction filmmaker and geographer Brett Story whose is based in Toronto. I became aware of work maybe last year when I saw The Hottest August at CPH:DOX, a documentary festival in Copenhagen and I was really wowed

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Episode 062: Georgia Oakley, Filmmaker (Live at...

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/08/07

I’m rather excited and a little bit trepidatious to release this episode because it was recorded live at the Watersprite Film Festival in Cambridge back in March and so it feels rather antiquated. There were people there! Georgia and I sat face to face! We mention SXSW being cancelled which Georgia was due to attend with a pilot she directed called Bored. So listening back to this was odd, it felt a bit like a time capsule. But the conversation is still great and Georgia is wonderful, so I am of

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01:08:41

Episode 061: Louise Ford, Editor

Best Girl Grip ·

2020/07/31

My guest this week is Louise Ford, a film editor who has worked on some of the most original and startling and accomplished features of recent times. I don’t think that’s overstating it. They include Robert Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse, Cory Finley’s Thoroughbreds and his recent release starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney Bad Education, as well as Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. We talk about a myriad of topics, from Louise’s pivot

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