Ep 16: Edinburgh International Film Festival + The Grizzlies

Girls On Film goes live at Edinburgh International Film Festival with guest critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Amber Wilkinson reviewing new releases Support The Girls and Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows, as well as EIFF screenings The Souvenir and Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love. Anna is also joined by Miranda de Pencier, the director of the Canadian hit The Grizzlies, along with her star Anna Lambe. Films put to the Bechdel Test include Beautiful Boy; Girlhood; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; Yesterday; Casino Royale and Nénette and Boni, which is showing as part of MUBI’s Claire Denis season. Girls On Film listeners can still take advantage of a complimentary month’s subscription (including free cinema tickets!). Go to www.mubi.com/girlsonfilm for details. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is Chief Film Critic at Metro newspaper and regularly comments on film across the BBC. She tweets from @Larushka_iz Amber Wilkinson is co-founder and co-director of film website Eye For Film. She tweets from @NinjaWorrier ‏ Anna Smith tweets from @annasmithjourno Girls On Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long.