00:00Let's give a warm welcome to the incredible director behind Brides, Maria Fall.
00:11Hello.
00:13I've got this Buttman's jacket on so I might sing a song. I won't sing a song.
00:19Yes, Brides is my debut film and like all indie films it was a complete labour of love.
00:27It took many many years, it took about six years since the idea and there was a lot of sweat, a few tears but mainly lots of passion and lots of laughter because we had such a brilliant team, mainly of women, most of our HODs were women, our producer is a woman, our editor, our DOP, our writer, our young leads, all women.
00:57Which was absolutely correct, particularly for this film and this story.
01:03It means a lot to us to be here premiering at Edinburgh, our UK premiere here because in another life I'm actually a theatre director and I run the Young Vic Theatre in London and this city is where I cut my teeth as a young director and I think it's a city which is electric and exciting and very welcoming of artists.
01:24So thank you Edinburgh, it means a lot to be here and Brides is about a lot of things and I don't want to talk about it before the film.
01:32I really look forward to talking to you about it after the film but for me it's really about friendship and that really potent love, platonic love you have for your best friends.
01:45That sometimes outlive love you have for your lovers and especially when you're a young person, you die for your best friend.
01:56It's also I think a warning shot of what happens if we feel like we don't belong.
02:03I'm lucky enough to have some of our gathered women here, I'd like to introduce them.
02:08First of all the brilliant producer Nikki Bentham, our writer the incredible Sahaila El-Bushra, and our leading ladies playing Muna Safya Inga, and playing Doh Ibadah Hassan.
02:38We really, really hope you love the story and we can't wait to talk to you about it afterwards so get those questions ready.
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