Ellen Cheshire

Working from home (no commuting) and no access to cinemas has meant that in this reclaimed time I have been continuing my #52FilmsByWomen...

What a thrill and honour it was to have been asked by Robin Write, Editor in Chief of Filmotomy, if I'd be on the Jury for this year's...

Continuing my #52FilmsByWomen pledge that I started in 2015. This is now my 6th ‘year’, year being such a loose term as I have watched...

Following on from May's #30DayFilmChallenge where I enjoyed revisiting films in my collection which I'd not watched in some time, in June...

Well the good news is that each 'year' it is getting easier to find films directed by women, on the down side they still only represent a...

On Jane Campion's birthday, I thought I'd take some time-out to trace my history and fascination with her extraordinary body of work. I...

In celebration of International Women's Day, I've set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since 2000....

The #52FilmsByWomen pledge was started in 2015 by Los Angeles’ Women in Film, an organisation dedicated to promoting equal opportunities...

On this day, 22 August 1902, Leni Riefenstahl was born in Berlin. As you may have spotted from my writing and talks, I am very interested...

With the Chichester International Film Festival scheduling a screening of Monsoon Wedding on 20 August at 20.45 I thought I'd post a...

Last night, or was it early morning I set my alarm for 0230 in order to do a radio interview with Paul Ross on his Late Late Early Early...

Neil Perryman host of podcast Perfect Night In invited me to plan my perfect night of television for his Desert Island Disc-style show......

This year the fabulous independent art house cinema in Chichester, the Chichester Cinema in New Park is celebrating its 40th Anniversary....

A few weeks ahead of schedule, I have completed my third year pledging to watch #52FilmsByWomen. Read blogs for Year 1 and Year 2....

2018 saw the publication of my book In the Scene: Jane Campion (Supernova Books/Aurora Metro, 2018). A book that has been 25 years in the...

In January 2016 I pledged to watch #52FilmsbyWomen, as the end of the year approached I had to cram in extra film screenings to meet my...

In 2015 I wrote a chapter on women working behind the camera in the silent film period for Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema, published in...

I had to do the maths twice for this, I just can't belive it is 19 years today since Bound (1996) was released in the UK. It was one of...

This month (February 2016) saw the publication of Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema by Supernova Books. I was thrilled to discover that...

There has been much written this year about women film directors and the lack of opportunities for them. So as people are pulling...