At the Underwire Festival in November, the London Short Film Festival posed the question Why Can’t Women Make Feature Films? A great debate erupted at the Ritzy, with Hannah McGill, Lizzie Franke and Carol Morley fearlessly taking on this controversial question.

Well, it’s not over yet. Kate Taylor is taking the helm of this difficult discussion topic with two filmmakers, a critic and a programmer to look at the gender gap. We’ll be asking everyone to roll up their sleeves and get myth-busting on common misconceptions about female filmmakers and the struggles they face in making the transition from short films to features. Noé Mendelle (Scottish Documentary Institute), Hannah McGill (Sight & Sound, The List) and Tom Kalin (Columbia University) will take a series of familiar complaints, rip them to shreds, and then read the shreds like tea leaves, looking forward to a time when the question ‘How does it feel to be a woman filmmaker?’ is never asked again.

Join us at the CCA, Saturday February 9th at 3.30pm. More details here.

And if one session is not enough for you, we’re also very impressed by the line up at the GSFF’s Symposium on Female Authorship on Friday 8th February. More details over at the GSFF website.