Legendary photographer and Heroine Jillian Edelstein’s award-winning documentary film The Water Rats started as a personal project during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Nan Goldin (b 1953) is an American photographer and activist whose work explores LGBTQ+ subcultures, sexual intimacy, HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Now, a new documentary film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras is set to release in the UK in January 2023. It is an “epic, emotional and interconnected story” about Nan “told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis”.
At the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic we enlisted the help of Heroine Lisl Ponger to fend off the boredom. We have had the honour of a weekly online film festival for 52 weeks during 2020/21. We travelled the world, visited many cultures and heard many stories.
Bad Color Combos presents a selection of Yto’s work exploring education, the passage of time, and futile attempts to control nature.
Join Hundred Heroines for a film screening of the 1950’s American classic, Little Fugitive, directed by legendary photographer Ruth Orkin.
Congratulations to all the winners of the Oscars and Baftas this year and we can’t wait to see what’s next for Women in Film.
Gabrielle Kynoch reviews the 2021 Oscar-winning and BAFTA-winning film, Promising Young Woman, in the lens of #MeToo and social expectations
In the history of the Oscars only 5 women are ever to be nominated for Best Director, so Paula Vellet asks where are the women
Spend a day with one half of filmmaker duo, Karni and Saul, exploring how creativity can grow under lockdown and the opportunities it can bring
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