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The Women Film Critics Circle is an association of 64 women film critics and scholars nationally and internationally, who are involved in print, radio, online and TV broadcast media. They united to form the first women critics organization in the United States, in the belief that women's perspectives and voices in film criticism would be ...
The role of women's films was discussed at the Women's Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970, [108] and groups such as the Feminist Film Workers collective (1970s and 1980s), Sydney Women"s Film Group (SWFG, 1972–), Melbourne Women's Film Group (1973–), Reel Women (1979 to 1983 in Melbourne), and Women's Film Unit (Sydney and Melbourne ...
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Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1900: Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc: Jeanne Calviere: 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang: Ned Kelly: Frank Mills: 1909: The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: Ludwig van Beethoven: Harry Baur: The Life of Moses: Moses: Pat Hartigan: Edgar Allen Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: Herbert Yost: Saul and David: King David ...
Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
1991–1992 – In the name of Dorothy Arzner, Women In Film recognized 31 American women directors who released theatrical feature films between January 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992. Barbra Streisand accepted the award on behalf of herself and her contemporary female directors.
After the Swinging Sixties in the west, women began to feature front and centre of large-budget movies, often in a more serious tone.. An early example was the 1970 film The Andromeda Strain which showed Dr Ruth Leavitt as one of several scientists investigating a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.