Ellen Cheshire

Tessa Thompson in Hedda (2025) Here's the 24th batch of #52FilmsByWomen watched since taking the pledge in 2016. This batch of 52 films, 1198 – 1249, are those watched between July and November 2025. They included 38 feature films, 9 shorts, 2 TV series and 3 feature-length documentaries. Many of the shorts and features were those watched as part of the 10 th  Femme Filmmakers Festival, and online celebration of films directed by women. You can read more about the films prog

This year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival (an online festival from 16 - 28 September 2025) highlighted the extraordinary contributions of...

Peter Dinklage in She Came To Me (2023) Here's the 23rd batch of #52FilmsByWomen watched since taking the pledge in 2016. This blog...

Jane Campion was born on this day in 1954. To celebrate this great filmmaker make May the month where you'll catch up with her short...

Here's the 19th batch of #52FilmsByWomen watched since taking the pledge in 2016. This blog covers films and TV watched between December...

Here's the 18th batch of #52FilmsByWomen watched since taking the pledge in 2016. This blog covers films and TV watched between August...

I think this may well be the fastest watch of 52 films #DirectedbyWomen. With the 15th batch of 52 completed on 29 January, here's the...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 15th batch of 52 films since...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 14th batch of 52 films since...

Back in March 2022, for International Women's Day, I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 13th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a single film per year,...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 12th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, Stories Women Tell: Films #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021, where I selected a single film per...

The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakingtheBias, where we are asked to: Imagine a gender equal world... A world free of...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 11th batch of 52 films since...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 10th batch of 52 "films"...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 9th batch of 52 "films"...

In celebration of International Women's Day in March 2020, I set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since...

With the additional time saved from working from home and money saved from not going out, I have been watching more films at home, a mix...