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Women In Film

Why are there so few female film composers?

by Natasha Jagger

We list six great com­posers who aren’t one of the small pool of men who seem to get all the big com­pos­ing gigs in Hollywood.
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Women In Film

Meet the Israeli filmmaker tackling sexual harassment in the work place

by Zoe Whitfield

With Work­ing Woman, direc­tor Michal Avi­ad hopes to move the con­ver­sa­tion forward.
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Women In Film

How I broke into the film industry: Five women share their stories

by Hannah Strong

Indis­pens­able first-hand advice for Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2019.
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Women In Film

Adding the voices of rebellious women back into the British film archives

by Hannah Clugston

The pro­duc­er of Born a Rebel speaks about the chal­lenge of doc­u­ment­ing more than a cen­tu­ry of female protest.
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Festivals

How wild women stole the show at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A crop of com­plex and fas­ci­nat­ing female char­ac­ters were at the heart of this year’s LFF.
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Women In Film

Mommie Dearest: The changing face of maternal horror cinema

by Leila Latif

A Qui­et Place and Hered­i­tary are the lat­est films to chal­lenge ide­alised notions of motherhood.
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Women In Film

A new study confirms that film critics are mostly white men

by Hannah Strong

Encour­ag­ing new voic­es from diverse back­grounds into a stag­nant indus­try can only be a pos­i­tive thing.
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Long Read

In defence of funny women

by Lydia Figes

Female-dri­ven come­dies such as The Mar­vel­lous Mrs Maisel and Fun­ny Cow are chal­leng­ing archa­ic notions about women on screen.
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Women In Film

A brief history of female masturbation in the movies

by Christina Newland

Inspired by The Shape of Water, we sur­vey the var­i­ous ways female self-plea­sure has been portrayed.
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Women In Film

Proud Mary and the return of the black female action hero

by Richard Watson

Tara­ji P Henson’s gun-tot­ing assas­sin harks back to an era of Lola Colt, Foxy Brown and Cleopa­tra Jones.