[Commlist] Women documentary directors event

This is the final call for registrations for these free workshops plus 
ticketed screening. You can book the individual sessions separately if 
desired:

*Making the Grade: Women Directing Documentary Past and Present*

*Friday 22-Saturday 23 November 2019, Plymouth *

Directors UK (2018) reports an almost 10% decline in the number of women 
directing factual programming in recent years. What factors are driving 
this and how have individual women managed to forge careers in this 
sector? Using the career of Jill Craigie as a springboard, contemporary 
women film-makers from the South West and around the UK explore how far 
opportunities for women have changed since Craigie started as one of the 
first female documentary directors in 1944.

She made a series of films in the 1940s including /The Way We Live 
/(1946), a film which foregrounded women’s perspectives on the plan to 
rebuild Plymouth after the war. After her success in the war and 
post-war period, she had few opportunities to direct again, until, 
propelled by anger at the fate of the people of Dubrovnik during the war 
in Yugoslavia, she made /Two Hours from London /at the age of 84.

Further details and booking pages for events 
here:https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/making-the-grade-women-directing-documentary-past-and-present-film-weekend

_Programme_

*/Making the Grade /**(Lizzie Thynne): Film Screening and Discussion *

*Friday 22 November 6-9pm*

Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth


Archival footage and Craigie’s own words from letters, diaries and 
interviews present an intimate film portrait of the life and career of 
this pioneering director whose work imagines a new place for women 
post-World War Two. Craigie made the first film to feature living 
artists at work, /Out of Chaos /(1944) and /To Be A Woman /(1951), a 
forceful and witty argument for equal pay. /Making the Grade /explores 
her unique contribution to documentary and her contrasting identities as 
director, writer, early media ‘personality’ and wife of former Labour 
leader, Michael Foot. *The film will presented as a work in progress for 
your responses and feedback.*

With director Lizzie Thynne (Sussex University), Professor Yvonne Tasker 
(University of Leeds) and invited filmmakers Rebecca Brand and Ruth 
Grimberg. Followed by wine reception.

Registration is free. Please book your ticket 
here:https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/film-making-the-grade

**

*Workshop: Making Our Way*

*Saturday 23 November 10am-1pm*

Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

A workshop with directors Rebecca Brand, Ruth Grimberg, Anna Best and 
Barbara Santi on the opportunities and obstacles women face now in 
sustaining a career in documentary production. What avenues have they 
found to fund and exhibit their films outside, and within, film and 
television?

Led by Kayla Parker (University of Plymouth) and Lizzie Thynne 
(University of Sussex)

Followed by complimentary buffet lunch.

Registration is free. Please book your ticket 
here:https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/workshop-making-our-way

*/The Way We Live /**(Jill Craigie, 1946): Film Screening*

*Saturday 23 November 2-4pm*

Arts Centre Cinema, Plymouth College of Art

Craigie’s provocative documentary on the plan to rebuild Plymouth 
cleverly combines humour, melodrama and political polemic to stir up 
support for the architect’s radical proposal to re-design urban space 
and ensure housing meets the needs of families and young people.

Screening and discussion with Sadie Wearing (LSE), Stephen Essex 
(University of Plymouth) and Hollie Price (University of Sussex).

Tickets are £4, and are available to book 
here:https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/film-the-way-we-live-1946

_Workshop speaker biographies_

Rebecca Brand isa documentary filmmaker and editor. She has made a 
number of short films which have played at festivals around the globe, 
including in London, Paris, New York, Edinburgh and Milan. Her debut 
feature-length film - /Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model/ 
<http://rebeccabrand.co.uk/342/>/ - /which features performance artist 
and activist Bryony Kimmings, premiered in Portland (USA) and won the 
Audience Award at the London Feminist Film Festival. Rebecca loves 
making films about captivating characters who are on a mission, and her 
work is mainly concerned with gender, identity, activism and 
family.http://rebeccabrand.co.uk/

Ruth Grimberg is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and part-time 
lecturer living and working in London. Her short films focus on the 
lives of ordinary people, exploring life in contemporary Britain whilst 
making connections to our recent past. Most recently her documentary 
/Learning to Swim /for BBC4 and the BFI was a commissioned response to 
the 1942 film /Listen to Britain/. http://ruthgrimberg.com/

Anna Best is an artist film-maker based in rural Dorset. She made the 
16mm film /Buddleia/ for a commission with Plymouth Arts Centre in 2007, 
and has recently made a film /Plastic Water Stone/ filmed partly in 
Croatia, supported through a KURS residency and an Artists International 
Development Fund 2017. She runs an artist's residency in her studio - 
The Mothership. An archive of past work can be found at 
https://annabest.info <https://annabest.info/>.

Barbara Santi is a documentary maker using film as a creative tool for 
social change. She has made documentaries for Channel 4 and Carlton TV 
and is co-founder of awen productions CIC, a media social enterprise set 
up in 2006 based in West Cornwall. Barbara recently completed /Home of 
Springs, Trengwainton/, a 3-year collaborative project in partnership 
with the National Trust culminating in an exhibition at The Exchange 
Gallery, Penzance, a book and feature documentary currently touring 
across venues in Cornwall. Her interest in collaborative documentary 
film, creative storytelling and ideas around place, identity and culture 
has further developed into a practice-based PhD with Exeter University 
(Penryn campus) of which she is in her third year of 
studies.https://barbarasanti.co.uk

Run in partnership with the Arts Institute, Plymouth as part of the 
research project Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer 
<https://www.jillcraigiefilmpioneer.org/>, funded by the Arts and 
Humanities Research Council.


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