We’re very pleased to announce that Independent Miss Craigie, our feature documentary about the career and life of the eponymous director is now on BFI player. Enjoy and share! Also if you are interested in our teaching free resource on women documentary makers, produced by Hollie Price, please… Continue reading
Jill Craigie project nominated for two awards
On almost the same day the Jill Craigie project team has won two nominations. Hollie Price’s article ‘Post-war girlhoods: Jill Craigie, British social realism and local stardom’ Screen (vol. 63 Issue I Spring 2022) has been nominated for the BAFTSS Best Journal Article award 2023. The winner will be announcted at the BAFTSS conference 3… Continue reading
Jill Craigie, the suffragettes and early TV drama
The suffragette movement held a life-long fascination for Jill Craigie as the inspiration and foundation for the broader fight for women’s rights. She dramatized the Pankhursts’ story in many forms, including a feature script and a musical, but only one of her attempts made it onto the air as a BBC radio play, The Women’s… Continue reading
Screen article
In good news, ‘Post-war girlhoods: Jill Craigie, British social realism and local stardom’ has recently been published in Screen (vol. 63 Issue I Spring 2022) Hollie’s article draws on archival research she completed as part of the project and explores the foregrounding of young women in Craigie’s 1946 documentary The Way We Live and her… Continue reading
Independent Miss Craigie now out on dvd from BFI
The project film Independent Miss Craigie came out on 28 March out as a special feature on a BFI 2-disc dvd collection, The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers curated by Ros Cranston. The dvd set includes Craigie’s film Children of the Ruins, about the importance of education in the wake of fascism, and… Continue reading
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers study day
We are delighted to be part of The Camera is Ours, a study day organized by Ros Cranston, BFI non-fiction curator, at BFI Southbank on 5 March, 12 – 5pm. The day features talks about women documentary makers from the 1930s to the present day featured in the BFI season such as the Budge Cooper,Grierson… Continue reading
SCREENINGS OF INDEPENDENT MISS CRAIGIE
We’re so pleased that we are now able to take ‘Independent Miss Craigie’ to live public audiences around the UK, with the support of the Independent Cinema Office. UPCOMING SCREENINGS The Old Theatre, London School of Economics, 26 May 6pm – 8pm plus drinks reception from 8pm Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto 9 – 12… Continue reading
Special issue of Journal of British Cinema and Television now out
Team members Yvonne Tasker, Sadie Wearing and Hollie Price together with Christine Geraghty have edited this special issue on ‘Jill Craigie and Women in British Film and Documentary Cultures 1930–55’. The issue draws on some of the papers presented at our symposium at LSE on Early Women Film-makers in April 2019. A million thanks to… Continue reading
‘Independent Miss Craigie’ visits the home of ‘Blue Scar’
73 years after Craigie made her only feature film, Blue Scar, based in Abergywnfi near Port Talbot, Hollie Price and Lizzie Thynne went back to the ex-pit village to screen ‘Independent Miss Craigie’ on 16 September 2021. The film played to a full house in the G2 Club and the event was a collaboration with… Continue reading
Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference panel
Doing Women’s Film and TV History conference 5, Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now – Maynooth University, 10-11 July [Zoom] The many lives of ‘Jill Craigie’: socialist, feminist, film-maker, writer and ‘media personality’ The project team will be presenting their collaborative research on Craigie’s career exploring what it reveals about the obstacles… Continue reading