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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema(Movie, 2018)

14h | Genre: Documentary
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through CinemaRating: 4.1/5 (with 44 votes)
Women Make Film is a documentary film by the British-Irish filmmaker and film critic Mark Cousins. The film premiered on 1 September 2018 at the Venice Film Festival, and was released on the BFI Player in May 2020. The film is divided into 40 chapters over 14 hours and features the work of 183 directors. In the 1990s, Cousins curated a season of documentary films and realised later he had only included a single film made by a woman. This got him interested in finding and highlighting women filmmakers from around the world and throughout film history, eventually leading to the creation of this documentary. The premise of the film is that it is not about women filmmakers or institutional sexism; rather it is a documentary about film itself, and it explores 40 different aspects of filmmaking, drawing from a wide range of films as examples, all of which are made by women. The academic Laura Mulvey curated the inaugural Women's Film Event at the Edinburgh film festival in 1972, the blurb for their event stated that "A festival of men's films would be simply absurd. It's because so few women have been able to make films that this festival exists". Mulvey said of Women Make Film that "The amazi... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling

About Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.

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New Trailer for Women Make Film - on BFI Player and Blu-ray 18 May(Trailer, 1:40)

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: English (EN), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/29/2019
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Women Making Films: A New Road Movie Through Cinema"
Keywords: cinema history

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:284811, Added: 10/06/2018, Last updated: 02/28/2024