Event Category Archives: Special Events

Wired Women Weekender

Wired Women is back and this year we’re making it a weekender! Across the two days, we’ll be bringing you panel discussions, presentations and practical workshops with some of the industry’s leading ladies. Whether you’re looking to tackle the freelance world, develop your short into a feature or are seeking some guidance on that all […]

The Internet was Made for Women

Thursday 1 December Hackney Picturehouse 21:00 BOOK TICKETS Why wait for your career to start? Instead of embarking on the painstaking process of charming mainstream commissioners, these filmmakers determined to get straight on with making the shows they wanted to watch. Now with successful web series up and running, they’ll share how they did it, […]

Athena Film Festival Presents

Friday 2 December Hackney Attic 19:00 For the first time, we partner with a fellow film festival to bring us the most interesting shorts made by women from across the pond. Athena Film Festival has been hosting film screenings, workshops, panels and events celebrating women in leadership since 2011. Join Women & Hollywood publisher Melissa Silverstein […]

Debuts + discussion

Sunday 4 December Genesis Cinema 16:00 BOOK TICKETS   A director’s “vision” is a much lauded and hard to define attribute – constantly referred to in reviews and interviews without specifying exactly what it is! Every iconic filmmaker takes a sprawling journey to realise each story, and as we enter their film worlds, they invite […]

Red Road 10th Anniversary Screening on 35mm

    Director/Screenwriter Andrea Arnold Producer Carrie Comferford With Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston UK 2006 113min Courtesy of Verve Pictures   Ten years ago Andrea Arnold made her feature length debut with a film that’s still considered to be one of the finest examples of British cinema. Red Road follows CCTV operator Jackie […]