Ellen Cheshire

And so the 5th Femme Film Festival is over for another year, but don't worry you can still view many of the shorts, and catch up on news,...

Sally Potter. Photo By Martin Kraft - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=155120882 With Sally Potter's latest film The Roads Not Taken being released in September 2020, and Orlando being curated as part of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival , here's a short potted history of one of my favourite and UK's most innovative filmmakers. Sally Potter began making amateur films when she was 14, when she was given an 8mm camera from her uncle. She

The 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival started on Friday 28 August 2020 and over the next 10 days there's a curated programme in three...

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 I gave myself another film watching challenge #AlphabetFilm. In June each day I would watch films beginning with a letter of the alphabet, to make it doubly-fun/challenging one of them was to be a directed by a woman. Finding films directed by chaps in my collection was easy, for those directed by women many where new to me. Between 1 -

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...

Jane Campion photo by By New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General - https://gg.govt.nz/file/12859, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91235992 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 first saw The Piano (1993) in screen one of the Barbican Cinema when it was first released. I was working there at the time, and so had been looking at the striki

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...