Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood (2016)

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.

Director: Susan Kemp

Casts

	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
	Finola Dwyer as Self
	Pippa Harris as Self
	Florian Hoffmeister as Self
	David M. Thompson as Self
	Andy Roberts as Self
	Jonathan Powell as Self
	Paul Unwin as Self
	Susan Wilkins as Self
	Caroline Oulton as Self
	George Faber as Self
	Ronan Bennett as Self
	Mark Gill as Self
	Ruth Caleb as Self
	St. John O'Rorke as Self
	Kay Mellor as Self
	Adrian Corker as Self
	Jane Sillars as Self

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