Skip to content

KAREN ANSTEE

Writer, Director & Musician

About
- Privacy Policy
Showreel
Portfolio
Contact
Latest News via Instagram

Latest News via Instagram

kazanstee

Really enjoyed spending time with the fabulous @lu

Really enjoyed spending time with the fabulous @luliproductions - Linda was the instigator of the Collaboration Across Borders initiative that led to the making of our film @edifice129 and us getting to go to Paris a see our film premiere at the incredible @ecufilmfestival 🥂
#filmfestival #aprilinparis #womeninfilm #indiefilm #babeinarms #disobeytherules #officialselection #shortfilm #europeanfilm #celebrate #collaborationacrossborders #creativejourney #filmpremiere #ecufilmfestival #paris #les7parnassiens #cinema #montparnasse #happydays #ambitiouswomen #femaledirectors

Paris - lunch at beautiful @bouillonchartier resta

Paris - lunch at beautiful @bouillonchartier restaurant 🥂
#filmlife #filmfest #ecufilmfestival #paris #aprilinparis #indiefilm #disobeytherules #happydays #lunchtime #artneuveau #interiordecor #mirrors #mirrormirror #gilt #glassceiling #stainedglassceiling #travelphotography #beautifuldestinations #selfie #femalefilmmaker #ingoodcompany #waiter #mondayfunday

Can’t tell you how much I appreciate a film fest

Can’t tell you how much I appreciate a film festival that values great music - love, love, loving the @ecufilmfestival and the artists playing at tonight’s after party @the_backstage_paris ♥️
#music #film #filmfestival #ecufilmfestival #edifice129
#disobeytherules #afterparty #filmmaking #indiemusic #indiefilmmaking

Once again my tradition of bringing or sending ori

Once again my tradition of bringing or sending origami cranes, as a token of appreciation to film festivals screening my films, has me spending some enjoyable time tonight folding beautiful Japanese papers.
There’s always one I like a little more than the rest, which is of course the most important one to give away, and this time it’s a blue bird which miraculously matches the @ecufilmfestival poster.
It’s an entirely selfish act to make them really as I find the process so calming & healing.
I rarely know where they wind up - sometimes I just leave them in random places, sometimes they are given to the audience, sometimes to volunteers helping run the festival, once they were used to adorn the table settings at an awards dinner and another time left in a bowl marked “ take me” in a community cafe - but I hope they bring good fortune and a little joy to whomever receives them.
So please do come to the festival, which runs from 19-21 April in Paris, see @edifice129 and all the other films and take great memories and maybe one of these little birds home with you x
#origami #filmfest #origamicrane #bluebird #filmmaking #indiefilm #cinematic #disobeytherules #ecufilmfestival #aprilinparis #gratitude #friendship #goodfortune #japanesepaper #morikipaper #womeninfilm #happytimes #peacewithin #internationalcollaboration #fourdirectorsonevision #shortfilm #paris #beautifuldestinations #les7parnassiens #cinema #filmtucson

Coffee this Sunday morning was an adorable reminde

Coffee this Sunday morning was an adorable reminder of the beautiful time we had at the last @arcfilmfestival
I’m so looking forward to seeing the amazing @luliproductions this coming week in Paris, where @edifice129 - the film that came out of her Arc Film Fest / Collaboration Actoss Borders (CAB) initiative during the pandemic lockdowns - is screening at the @ecufilmfestival
♥️🎥🎞️📽️🍸♥️
#coffee #coffeecup #memento #keepsake #filmmaking #shortfilm #femalefilmmakers #womeninfilm #collaborationacrossborders #aprilinparis #directorlife #filmfestivals #filmmaking #friendship #connection #happytimes #worldpremiere #paris #montparnasse #les7parnassiens #cinema #cinematic #beautifuldestinations

Have to say filmmaking is a truly mysterious and m

Have to say filmmaking is a truly mysterious and magical thing sometimes.
In the process of making @edifice129 there were many, many weird coincidences but just now I was looking over the film, before we head to Paris for our premiere at the @ecufilmfestival next week, and I suddenly noticed yet another one - a really beautiful connection between our film and the festival.
When thinking about the production design for my scenes in the story, I sought out ways to foreshadow our choice of music - Igor Stravinsky’s hugely symbolic horn solo from his Firebird Ballet Suite, which represents triumph over an oppressive regime and the lifting of a magical spell.
So, amongst many other things, like a dress with bird feathers in its design, there is a concert program with a stage curtain design from an early Royal Opera House production of the Firebird ballet on its cover, and the character has a collection of dusty old LP records, one of which has an image of Nike, the winged goddess of victory.
You can only just see it in the film but it is there and of course it’s very much on the gorgeous poster for the ÉCU film festival.
So, today I went and rescued the LP from my brother’s storage lockup so I could photograph it and post it here, because this particular coincidence makes it all feel like this was all somehow mystically meant to be and I just had to share this sweet little behind the scenes secret from our film.
🎥🎞️📽️🥂♥️
#productiondesign #itsallinthedetails #filmmaking #magical #mystical #nikegoddess #statue #aprilinparis #filmfestival #coincidences #beautiful #victory #happytimes #connections #collaboration #acrossborders #friendship

Instagram post 18280200424205576

Instagram post 18280200424205576

Entangled Pasts at @royalacademyarts #art #statue

Entangled Pasts at @royalacademyarts
#art #statue #courtyard #colonoialism #thoughprovoking #londonstyle #blackandgold #beauty #influence #inspiration #inspire #london #goldenfrog #symbolic #symbolism #history #lestweforget

Load More Follow on Instagram

Share on Facebook Share

Share on TwitterTweet

Interesting Links

My Fencing Club

Search for:

QUICK LINKS

About
- Privacy Policy
Showreel
Portfolio
Contact
Latest News via Instagram

© 2024 KAREN ANSTEE

WordPress Theme: AccessPress Parallax