Spring2016

'Mums on the Run' is to be featured at the 'Open Door Short Film Showcase'

Latest review

"A matter of fact and unsentimental documentary that made me feel both sad and shocked. I quickly warmed to the main characters and feel privileged to have had this insight into their lives. Brave and intelligent filmmaking."

The Open Door Short Film Showcase Team.

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Education & Training

University of Canterbury & Christchurch:

HE Journalism & Media Studies

HE Cultural Studies & Photo Journalism

University of Kent - BA in Film Studies & European Art
with Tutors/ Clio Bernhard/The Arbour & Bafta award winner for The Selfish Giant

Sarah Turner, Tutor for Moving Image and Sight & Sound Film of the Month ‘Perestroiker’

University of Amsterdam, European Art

NFTS - National Film & Television School Training workshop in Film Production with Dick Fontaine & Kim Longinotto.

Sheffield Documenary Festival workshops for Pitching and commissioning in the Power Hours

LCC London University of Arts MA in Documentary Practice with Pratab Rhugani & Nancy Platt

Screensouth / Film Agents helping emerging talent in the Kent area / Film production & development training programme with David Castro.

Mentors John Tagholm from C4 executive producer and indie filmmaker / Amanda Boyle from Skins and Cast Offs

Lake's Lounge Trailer

Reviews on documentary "Life after Refuge" by the Late Jack Gold & Other Significant Filmmakers

Reviews on Film Documentary "Life After Refuge" by Alicia Rose/Hoser 

Vikki Dunford & Tom Cranliegh-Swash

John Tagholm, Independent Producer/Writer, says, “An emotional and visually disturbing film, a proper mirror of what happens in some women's lives.”

Mick Efferton, Independant Filmmaker,  "This documentary revealed itself to be  a remarkable personal voyage through the author's time living in a women's refuge.

Emma rush, Filmmaker  "This film was both enlightening and deeply touching. An affectionate and affirmative look at life in the wake of turmoil, violence and chaos. Refreshingly honest.

Jack Gold, British Film Director,  "a film with powerful imagery and incredibly eloquent and emotional testaments".

Reviews on Alicia's Film 'Life after Refuge'

Alicia's Film (Life After refuge)

At last, an interesting film. After an interminable time spent trying to decipher half a dozen strange combinations of personalised and plot-less graduate shorts, the audience audibly woke up and engaged with Alicia Hoser’s film, Life After Refuge.

Hoser's documentary revealed itself to be a remarkable personal voyage through her time living in a women's refuge. It was shot in a gangly video-diary style interlaced with home movies and with more formal interviews. The film’s delivery was restrained, with a light directorial touch which allowed the participants to have full ownership of their contributions. The auteur guided the viewer through the physical and social landscape that the women inhabit and this accorded the film with the naturalness and intimacy that gave it its warmth.

The audience clearly engaged with the film, which was both enlightening and deeply touching, particularly the short testimonial by one lady, who told of her husband's hatred, depicting his violence towards her female body parts with a frank and understated dignity. The woman’s eyes filled with tears as her testimony jarred with the sympathetic forum she was expressing the events in. The audience empathised with her suffering, as she mourned the hatred that underpinned the man's feelings towards her. There were other voices of terrible ritual violence by men who had gained temporary control of these women. However, the participants were keen to stress that they were still capable of re-emerging as the strong, sassy powerful women they were and still are, on either side of the abuse.

This is not to say it was simply a depressing look at abuse. It was an affectionate and affirmative look at life in the wake of turmoil, violence and chaos. Hoser has made a film about hope, strength and friendship. As such, it was a refreshingly honest and candid look at the issues surrounding society’s perception of the ‘victims’ of domestic violence.

Reviews

'Mum's on the Run' (UK) Director Alicia Hoser,  (running time 15 minutes).


'Mum's on the Run' is an insiders view of life in a Jewish Women's Refuge. Shot over an eight months, the film offers an immediacy and an honesty about its characters and the issues they face, captured in a emotional yet unsentimentally brutal way.

Link to Teaser Trailer
https://youtu.be/KG-9fOZak7E


John Tagholm, Independent Filmmaker for BBC/ITV/C4 and Writer, says,

'As with all Alicia Hoser's films, Mums on the Run hits you between the eyes and makes you decide where you stand on any number of
issues.'


Amanda Boyle,  Director/Producer and  BAFTA Film Award Winner.Cast Offs/Skins/Misfits and Pop Art are just a few of the films under Amanda's direction and after viewing Alicia Hoser's film Boyle states,

"Mums on the Run - quickly pulls you in to the real observations of it's wonderfully larger than life director. The economical editing and elegant use of text cleverly sets the scene - yet it's the unselfconscious moments it captures which make it stand out. Powerfully straight forward and undeniably joyful at times - Alicia's film gives you a brief snap shot of the aftermath of abuse as a reality. Without ever being voyeuristic, you can't help but be moved by the frustrations, humour, warmth and intimate tragedy Alicia sees around her. This is home video where home is precarious and the technique behind the videoing is bold and skilled. I know I'll keep thinking about this film and can't wait to see what Alicia does next cinematically."