Director Havana Marking was interviewed on the Guardian website this morning, speaking about her experience of participating in a Filmclub screening and Q & A.
Marking’s award-winning documentary Afghan Star, based on the Afghanistan version of X Factor, was shown to 150 11-12 year-old children at a school in Kilburn, London. “The kids didn't ask anything about me as a filmmaker”, Marking said. “They were completely swept up in the characters – they asked how Setara felt, why she did things like take off her headscarf and dance, which is really the point”.
Filmclub was founded by the director Beeban Kidron and the journalist Lindsay Mackie to give children greater access to cinema. Its current Behind the Headlines series focuses on films about countries making news, including Afghan Star, Iraq In Fragments, Hotel Rwanda, Burma VJ, and Persepolis. To read more from Havana, or about Filmclub, click here.
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