Blackfish
This time next week the Sundance London Film and Music Festival 2013 will be underway and we will be being treated to some fantastic movies.
There are ten female directors on show during the festival and we take a look at some of watch out for.
- Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Gabriela Cowperthwaite is back in the director's chair with her latest documentary Blackfish.
Blackfish is her follow up City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story having also made her name as a producer.
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer.
Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
- Francesca Gregorini
and the Truth About Fishes is the second feature film for Gregorini.
She has penned the screenplay for the movie as well as being in the director's chair and it is her first project since Tanner Hall back in 2009.
A troubled teen Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbour (Jessica Biel), who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother.
In offering to baby-sit Linda's newborn, Emanuel unwittingly enters a fragile, fictional world, of which she becomes the gatekeeper.
Starring: Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Biel, Frances O’Connor, Jimmi Simpson, Aneurin Barnard and Alfred Molina
- Lake Bell
Lake Bell has made her name in front of the camera with roles in TV and film projects such as How to Make It in America and What Happens In Vegas.
In a World... marks the directorial debut of Bell she will also star in the movie and has penned the screenplay.
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star.
Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Starring: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin
- Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple kicked off her directing career in the mid seventies and she has worked in documentaries, TV and feature film throughout her very successful career.
She has been the recipient of two Oscars for her documentary work and she is back with her new movie Running from Crazy.
Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness.
As tragedies are explored and deeply hidden secrets are revealed, Mariel searches for a way to overcome a similar fate.
- Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton kicked of her career in front of the camera but made the move into the director's chair back in 2006.
Over the years she has worked in TV and film and bee behind projects such as Humpday and Your Sister's Sister.
She is back at Sundance London with her new movie Touchy Feely - a screenplay that she also penned.
A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact.
Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his 'healing touch.'
Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Scoot McNairy, Ellen Page
Sundance London runs 25-28 April.
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