Vanessa Engle on Carl Beech 'I didn’t want to tell the story of a liar at the expense of genuine victims'
almost 5 years in The guardian
The filmmaker explains why her documentary about the fantasist jailed for making false child sexual abuse allegations is vital in the era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter
The film-maker Vanessa Engle calls it “vagina snap”: female-centred fluff that meets diversity targets, but is not the sort of documentary commissioners boast about, and certainly is not about to enter for awards submissions. “You’ve got a vagina,” says Engle, explaining the concept, “the subject of the film has got a vagina, so this must be a film for you to make.
“Don’t get me wrong. I’m passionate about the subject of women. I’ve made many, many films about women that I’ve picked myself. But it’s only in the last couple of years that indies have started ringing me up and saying, ‘We’ve got a film about women that needs a women director’, or – I’ve literally had people saying this to me – ‘We need a woman director, because it looks bad for us that we don’t have any!’” Continue reading...
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