Hello there, i am olly foster at the bbc sports centre. Raheem sterling says players need more time to prepare for the return of the premier league. June the 12th is the current target of project restart but the Manchester City and England Forward says that players will need at least a month for full training before returning to action and that it is unlikely to be much before the end of the month. The newcastle manager steve bruce has also questioned the timetable for the weeks resumption. Sterling was speaking to the usa womens captain on his youtube channel. You cannot come back in with one and a half weeks or two weeks, you need a full, as i said four or five weeks. Especially if you are going to go back into competition, it is not a friendly, it is going to count for something say do that preparation definitely. They were at the top of the German Bundesliga after the first weekend of fixtures following the leagues return and the leaders byron munich beat union brand land 2 0 and the scenes at the stadium before the match in berlin. Everyone observing strict guidelines. And players return to the first phase of training, and small groups, overfive weeks ago. So that really makes the premier league target ofjune the 12th seem very ambitious. Byron won the match 2 0 to remain four points clear of dortmund. The penalty was the 40th goal of the season and another scored a late header. Others came back from 2 0 down to draw at cologne. The la liga president has targeted a 12th ofjune restart behind closed doors as well for spains top division. This is the barcelona changing rooms at the grounds getting a deep clean. Let me get started testing their players last week. Uefa president says the european season will be able to finish in august and that includes the rope and Champions League fixtures. Beat champions or dutch leagues were scrapped or called early but they said they had a can create plan for the finishing the season at the end of august. Top Division European clubs are set to lose three and half billion pounds. A figure for this season and next was outlined in a stakeholder is within the game last week and the seasons are not fully completed that could rise over 6 billion. It is estimated Manchester United alone to lose 140 million. If matches are played behind closed doors until the end of next season as well. And finally after the top male pole vaulters had a go at this a fortnight ago this was the turn of the elite women in the garden clashed. Athletes in different parts of the weld competed against each other and the eventual winner was after 3a successful vaults over a four metre bar. With and a half hour time limit. She says she wants to take on the leading man in the next few weeks. That is all the sport for now. Now on bbc news. Talking movies. Hello from new york, im tom brook and welcome to talking movies, presenting one more edition of our show from close to home, from central park in these pandemic times. In todays programme, were going to put the focus on female filmmakers and the pandemic and looking at some of the challenges theyve been facing. Nowjoining me from close to her home in west london is emma jones. Emma, i know youve been speaking to a lot of female filmmakers. How would you characterise their mood . I think that if you are a woman who had a film coming out in cinemas, i think theyre feeling pretty deflated. Not only were more women getting their films made than ever before, but more women were getting the opportunity to direct these enormous multimillion dollar blockbusters. These are films like wonder woman 1984 and black widow. These films have been pushed back to the latter end of 2020 when its hoped there might be a cinema audience for them or else to 2021 when there is going to be a glut of films that are all going to be competing for attention at the box office. In many ways, it is quite dire right now for women because there is a recent poll that shows that more than 90 of women in film and tv in the uk lost all their income as a result of the pandemic. This is the survey by women in Film Television in the uk which says 96 of its members report theyve lost all their income because of the pandemic and of course across the world, most women working within the Film Industry will be freelance, and so will men. Having said that, women are coming from a slightly different position. Historically, theyve taken care of the bulk of the childcare and they havent had the same opportunities in terms of pay, and in terms of advancement in their career. So just as it seems things were going great for women in the Film Industry, covid 19 has struck. Well, emma, thank you very much indeed. And now lets take a look now at your report. I didnt see you at school today. I went to the doctor. Whats wrong . Girl problems. Never rarely sometimes always, the third film by new yorker eliza hitman, scooped the jury prizes at both the sundance and berlin film festivals. The story of a teenager, autumn, who travels to new york from the countryside to seek an abortion should be in cinemas this month. Covid 19 means its still coming out, but only online. I know this is hard. I dont know if a vod release strategy without theatrical enhances the audience necessarily. I do think that since we are in the middle of a Global Health crisis, that it might reach a vulnerable audience. Last year, thanks to movies like frozen 2 and captain marvel, films directed by women made a record 1. 7 billion in profits and women made about 15 of the top studio releases, a record. I believe in you, elsa. But many high profile 2020 releases by women wont get a chance to build up Box Office Figures despite their online releases. These include the assistant by kitty green, about a young woman who suspects the powerful media mogul she works for is a sexual predator. You know you can always come to us, right . Come to us first, ok. And haifaa al mansours the perfect candidate, about a woman standing for Political Office in saudi arabia. Hi, hows it going . I like your study. Director hope dixon leachs latest film, a short as part of the uncertain kingdom, a series of reflections on modern britain, is now coming out online. Shes also a founder of raising films, to highlight the lack of Work Life Balance for parents and carers in the industry. I think everybody suddenly realises how important childcare is and how important caring for our more vulnerable members of society is and we can see that so much of this labour is normally done by women. So theres the issue of childcare, precarious employment. What about the economics for production in the future, do you think . I think that fear is that after this, people will go backwards and they will be risk averse and women are still seen as a risk. There are millions of michelle and barack obamas. But given the many high profile women of the world stage, this Netflix Documentary becoming, about michelle obama, is an all female team behind it. Campaigners for equality hope there is no going back. There is the social imperative which we know and then there is the business imperative. What all of the leading content creators have learned over the past few years is that you will make more money when you have content that is diverse and inclusive. And now the Academy Awards have made online only film releases eligible for the 2021 oscars. Tayarisha poe, whose first film selah and the spades is released on amazon, thinks it is time to rethink cinema. I think that innovation is always necessary. Whether theres a pandemic or not, we need to be rethinking how we are talking about distributing films and i wanted to make sure i was putting something out that as many people could see as possible, no matter where they were, no matter if they are watching it on the phone or computer, it doesnt matter to me, i just want people to have access to stories. Nevertheless, most filmmakers aspire to one day making a Big Box Office movie on a big screen. Its Uncertain Times for blockbusters such as mulan, wonder woman 1984, and black widow, all directed by women with multimillion dollar budgets, pushed back to later this year when perhaps therell be a cinema audience again. Even now, the hopes of so many women to have their moment in the spotlight could be taken away in this seismic year. Women in the film business have been quite busy, despite the pandemic, rising to the challenge. From his living room in north london, matt floyd has been surveying the activities of three female film professionals. The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on the Film Industry all over the world and here in the uk, things are no different. Its a situation that has affected women more than men but while most of the industry is at a complete standstill at the moment, there is still some work that can be done. London based filmmaker Sally El Hosaini is best known for writing and directing the Award Winning british independent film my brother the devil. Last year, she was signed up by Working Title Films to sign up and direct the swimmers, the incredible story of the mardini sisters. Having fled the Syrian Civil War as refugees, they found themselves on a sinking boat on the way to greece, forcing them to swim and push the boat to safety, which saved the lives of all onboard. Younger sister yusra went on to swim for the first ever Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 rio olympics. Essentially, the film is a road movie across europe so logistically it is a complex project because we are filming in multiple International Locations so for the last year, weve been setting up the organisational side of things, developing the script father, finding our two lead actresses. We were four days away from filming. The tricky thing is, when you restart, you cantjust continue where you left off. We dont know when turkey, for example, which is one of our main locations, will be for us to film in order for us to travel in. So with no immediate perspective being able to start shooting on the horizon, what can be done from home during a lockdown . The actors are continuing with their physical training over online and doing dialect work that they were doing, online. There has been a revisit to the script, to make that even better. There will be a preproduction period that we to go back into when we get up and running again but certainly ive been working with all the heads of department online, basically. Weve been trying to keep the momentum going. Filmmakers are amongst those heavily affected by the virus, but there are some professions in the industry that can still keep busy. Just outside london and also dealing with the lot down is editorjinx godfrey whose credits include the theory of everything and the recent hbo series chernobyl. Shes also been forced to continue her latest project from home. Im very fortunate that i can carry on working, you know, that we were two thirds of the way through our production so there seemed no point packing it up and stopping it. We can continue and in fact, all post production on this project is going to happen remotely. More and more people are doing that on smaller productions. Writing is another traditionally solitary profession. Olivia hetreed is the president of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and she believes that some good can come out of much of society having to work from home. Yeah, i think theres a lot of people, notjust writers, i think that lockdown life, because its such a kind of extraordinary opportunity, and it is, i think, notjust the virus itself but the effect on our lives and the time to think whats really important, and who the most important people in your life and who are the key workers who are keeping you going . Weve all had to rethink that. For most, though, its a question of waiting and hoping that they can get back to work sooner rather than later at once that time comes, how will the landscape of film and cinema have changed . Im an optimist so i think the virus is going to positively affect our industry. I think that people are going to be sick of sitting in and watching lots and lots of telly, so i think this will probably mean that there is a shift away from Television Sets and people will want a very real cinematic experience, so i think theres going to be a rise in cinemagoing as a result because people will want to leave their sofas and their houses and go and watch a film, and they wont take that for granted anymore. The controversial psychological horror film and satire american psycho has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Its a film that definitely help put its director, mary harron, on the map. She remains a fearless and adventurous female filmmaker. So, how has she responded to lockdown . Has it startled her creative impulses or has it stimulated them . I have followed her career closely over the years because i once worked with her at the bbc here in new york, fleetingly, many moons ago. So, i reached out to her by way of skype. Mary. Hi there, how are you . Hi. You dont look any different from how you did 30 years ago when i first met you. Well, neither do you its nice of you to say that. What were all going through is incredibly intense and dramatic. Do you think because of what youre experiencing, it is going to change the kind of stories you want to tell of a film make in the future . Definitely. There is the feeling of, is what i am working on still relevant . Because im always working two or three things at once on the understanding that somethings going to be delayed. And then you wonder, oh, ive been working on this story for like five years or six years and is it if the worlds falling apart, is it still as important as i thought it was . So, time will tell. We dont know whether the world will bounce back very shortly, or whether we are actually entering an era of which is quite likely constant pandemic. You know, one after another. That sounds quite dire. Constant pandemic. Laughter i mean, most of the time im feeling fairly, you know. I feel really bad for this city and for people in less fortunate circumstances, frankly, you know. Anybody who writes is in a very privileged position because we can isolate ourselves easily. Theres a mr Donald Kimball here to see you. Who . Detective Donald Kimball. Tell him im at lunch. American psycho is probably mary harrons best known film. It features an excellent performance by Christian Bale as an affluent wall Street Investment banker who goes on a killing spree. Its based on the celebrated book of the same name by bret easton ellis. This well crafted film is making a comment of sorts on violence and materialist consumerism. At the time of its release it proved controversial because of its graphic violence. Some charged that it was misogynistic. Yourfilm american psycho hasjust celebrated its 20th anniversary. Do you think, given what is going on nowadays, its a film that resonates differently from how did at the time you made it 20 years ago . Yeah, its interesting because it was about a time when there was a very, you know, the book itself was about the late 805, about a very obvious time of greed and disparity and very blatant luxury and very obvious homelessness and i felt that like the terrible gulf between rich and poor had never changed. Its obvious people in poor neighbourhoods are suffering much worse than people in wealthy neighbourhoods or people with money, can escape. So in some ways, those very stark divisions that the book was about are back again. Hes been compared to elvis costello, but i think huey has a far more better, cynical sense of humour. At the time, the film was somewhat controversial. What triggered that controversy . Was it the explicit depictions of violence, do you think . Yeah, i think so. Because it was violence against women, and then i think people didnt see that there was a critique in the book, that it was being seen as a celebration of the character, when i think bret clearly meant it as both an attack and a satire on those kinds of people. Um, but i dont know. Its one of those things, those controversies that sort of explode and then 20 years later, the book i think and the film have achieved a certain position where im surprised for the film, how very accepted it is now. Can i have a lemonade . Just a minute. Do you want to kill all the men in the world . No. I dont think that would be necessary. Mary harrons debut feature was i shot andy warhol, inspired by valerie salinas, who failed in her attempt to kill the american artist andy warhol. Harron also made the picture the notorious betty page about a 19505 pin up model. In yourfilm career, youve told a lot of stories about women, but you dont really see yourself as a feminist filmmaker, do you . Well, i would say im a feminist person, a feminist human being. They are only feminist if they are a reflection of me, i suppose, but i wouldnt say they are ideological films. You know, with a direct political message. In terms of improving the lot of women filmmakers, do you think that the me too movement has been very effective . I mean, is it continuing to bring rewards to women in the Film Industry . I dont know if its bringing rewards. Ive been giving interviews with 25 years on women in film and hollywood. You know, it used to be every year i give an interview about it. And for about almost 20 of those years, the answer was always the same, which was yes, its getting a little better but it hasnt changed too much. And then over the last five years i would say it has changed a great deal. So many women directors, young women directors. I think thats a combination of me too, ofjust a gradual pushing back. Finally, how has the pandemic changed you as a person, do you think . I would like to think it would make me value the time left more acutely, you know. Well, mary, thats a very nice interview. Thanks very much indeed for that. Oh, yeah, no problem, tom. Thank you so much. Good to see you again. Bye there are many films you can choose to watch right now if you are seeking solace away from the harsh realities of the world. Emma jones has come up with a list of movies just right for pandemic times, all directed by women. Only one woman has ever won an oscarfor direction, that was Kathryn Bigelow for the hurt locker, and only one female filmmaker has taken the palme dor at canne, jane campion, for the piano. Nevertheless, despite this lack of official recognition, there are so many fabulous films by female directors and they are very easy to watch online and at home right now. Can you keep a secret . Im trying to organise a prison break. Im in. Lost in translation by Sophia Coppola got this director an oscar for writing. And if by this stage youre missing the strangeness of exploring new places, forming deep connections with strangers, and evenjet lag, then remind yourself of what its like through the eyes of bob bill murray, giving one of his most nuanced performances as a jaded american actor whos making a commercial in japan. Scarlett joha nsson plays charlotte, who doesnt know what she wants to do with her life. Cheers to that. Bob and charlotte form one of the sweetest bonds in cinema a man and a woman with an unspoken connection that cant go any further. Plus, its got a fabulous soundtrack, hand picked by coppola. French director Celine Sciamma has won thousands of new fans for her latest sumptuous historical portrait of a lady on fire, but try the electrifying girlhood, the prizewinner for the director from an earlier cannes. Experiencing lockdown may give audiences a certain sympathy with marieme, played by karidja toure, as a teenager trapped within the confines of the projects of paris and simmering with potential. Her desire to break out to do something with her life when shes told cleaning is her only option is expressed by her taking up with girl gangs, bad boys, and later, drug dealing. But theres nojudgement in sciammas script, no neat coming of age ending that marks mariemes progression from girlhood to independence. Its a story told as much through street fighting and dancing as through dialogue. Shine bright like a diamond. Lipstick under my burkha is a film written and directed in hindi by indian filmmaker alankrita shrivastava, and at first, it was banned in india for being too lady oriented. Certainly, the whole film is all about the emotions of four different women and their desire for freedom in their personal lives and their dissatisfaction with a society that they feel is constricting them. Its a film that explores the lives of a night time teenage rebel who has to make burkhas in her parents factory, a older woman who yearns for romance, a mistreated wife used as a baby machine, and a woman who longs for excitement and travel. Its a tragi comedy deftly put together with four real characters that exposes the sexual double standards for men and women, and what constitutes a good woman, notjust in india, but in many parts of the world. Daughters of the dust byjulie dash is quite extraordinary a portrait of a culture and a way of life that was about to be lost. This languid period piece is set in 1902, in the deep american south. Its a story of three female generations of the gullah people, who preserve their african way of life in pockets of the american south, but many of them were about to migrate north. Julie dash became the first African American female filmmaker to get a cinema release for the film. And interest was revived when beyonce paid homage to the look of the movie, and especially the costumes in her visual album lemonade. Kathryn bigelow took on the blockbuster in 1991 and made it into one of the greatest action movies of all time. The grungier point break stars keanu reeves and Patrick Swayze asjohnny utah and bodhi, who have the best bromance since Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid. Youre doing good when utah, an fbi officer, goes undercover to find a gang of bank robbers and has to learn to surf. Diffused with a light that is only found in california, point break speaks of wide open oceans, of the thrill of adventure, of life measured in moments of risk rather than in years of safety. And bodhis philosophies of life will probably even more right now if youre confined to one place. Well, that brings this edition of talking movies to a close. We hope youve enjoyed the show. Please remember, you can always reach us online at bbc. Com talkingmovies and you can find us on facebook and twitter. So, from me, tom brook and the rest of the talking movies production team, its goodbye as we leave you with a sequence from lost in translation. Hello there and good evening, some warm weather and wet weather and the forecast for the next few days, warm weather will be quite widespread but most of the wet weather will be found across the north of the uk. Doing very one for the time particularly in the south before cooler and windier conditions arrive by the end of the week. Back to be here now and you can see the satellite picture, cloud ploughing into the northern Western Areas and perhaps have in the next few days we will see various frontal systems bringing more areas of cloud and some of it will be rain bearing. To the south of those areas of cloud we will start to tap into some increasingly warm air and some will climb by the middle of the week. Some pretty mild night in prospect at eight, nine, 10 degrees and rain beginning to move across Northern Areas and pushing out of mainland scotla nd areas and pushing out of mainland scotland tomorrow morning and confined to the Northern Isles and southern scotland and Northern Island in Northern England cloudy with the odd spot of drizzle and some missing into the west later on. Further south breezy and we will see some good spells and hazy sunshine and it will be warm, warmer than today, hyson 24 degrees in the southeast and weve been across Northern Areas. As we get into tuesday, similarfortunes Northern Areas. As we get into tuesday, similar fortunes Anjem Choudury rain across Northern Ireland and further south some spells and sunshine and that is where we will have the highest of the temperatures, peaking at around 25 degrees in the capital. As we move out if tuesday into wednesday this area of High Pressure becomes firmly established for a time and it should shut the frontal systems away. Wednesday is likely to be the sunniest day of the week and misty murky for the coasts at first and a lot of sunshine and warmth as well. 27 degrees possible towards the southeast and noticed shetland stays and colder air. Some showers and thunderstorms and rain as possible on friday and likely to turn quite windy as well and it will start to become a little bit cooler. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk government insists englands schools are safe to open to more children at the beginning of next month. It is the case that it is extremely unlikely that any school is likely to be the source of a covid 19 outbreak and if, for any reason, there are risks, then we can take steps to mitigate them. A deal to produce doses of a potential vaccine by september as the uks daily figure for coronavirus deaths drops to 170, the lowest since lockdown began in march. Spain records fewer than 100 deaths in the past 24 hours, for the First Time Since its lockdown began