HOME announces International Women’s Weekender to mark International Women’s Day 2019 and dates further events as part of year-long Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme
HOME will host a weekend of special events for all ages from Friday 8 – Sunday 10 March to mark International Women’s Day 2019 and as part of HOME’s year-long Celebrating Women in Global Cinema programme running throughout 2019.
On Friday 8 March, two new cinema releases with female-focussed stories will open at HOME - The Kindergarten Teacher and Maiden – accompanied by a special #WomenatHome Party and DJ set in the Downstairs Bar from Mancunian musician and DJ, Katbrownsugar. Maidenis the inspirational story of the first ever all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race, previously an exclusively masculine endeavour; and The Kindergarten Teacher is Sara Colangelo’s Sundance award-winning second-feature starring Maggie Gyllenhaal which will have a special introduction from Dr Kirsty Fairclough of the University of Salford, an authority on popular culture and gender representation.
On Saturday 9 March, HOME will host a full-day film course, open to all, exploring the work of inspirational female filmmaker Ida Lupino. From Hollywood star to a pioneering director and producer who took on the male-dominated Hollywood studio system, Lupino worked on more than 130 films and television programmes from 1931-1978 and was the first woman to direct a film noir (The Hitch-Hiker). The event includes a full screening of her 1949 feature Never Fear (aka The Young Lovers).
On Sunday 10 March, HOME’s ‘Feminists of the Future Craft and Storytelling Event’ proves that feminism isn’t just for grown-ups. Open to all ages and genders, this FREE event will include Suffragette sash-making with Mighty Heart Theatre and tales from Elena Favilli’s inspiring Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls alongside colouring and letter-writing stations plus a dressing up box and obligatory photobooth! Meanwhile in the cinemas, film fans can pay homage to the ultimate female heroine Ellen Ripley, in a 40th anniversary screening of Alien followed by a post-screening discussion on ‘Women in Sci-Fi’ led by Dr Amy Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at MMU.
Rounding off the weekend is a special screening of Song of Lahore, presented in association with London Indian Film Festival. Co-directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Saving Face) – Pakistan’s first Academy Award winner – alongside Andy Schocken, Song of Lahore follows the dramatic journey of a group of Pakistani classical musicians whose unexpected jazz album brings international acclaim but who struggle to find an audience back home in a society roiled by social and religious upheaval.
The International Women’s Day Weekender is part of HOME’s year-long commitment to championing women in film across the world and encouraging the female creatives of the future which is co-curated by HOME’s Head of Film Rachel Hayward and Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator: Film and Professor of Film Studies at University of Salford. Further upcoming and newly announced events include:
· The first of a series of live recordings of the Girls On Film podcast which champions the female perspective in film criticism and promotes the exposure of female-led films, will take place on 27 February – presenter and film journalist Anna Smith will be joined by BBC Radio 4’s Francine Stock ('The Film Programme') and Observer journalist and author Miranda Sawyer
· Special retrospectives attended by leading female filmmakers: HOME will celebrate Rebecca O'Brien from 5-7 March - one of Europe’s leading film producers well known for her politically committed work, most often in collaboration with director Ken Loach and Screenwriter Paul Laverty, O’Brien will participate in a Q&A following the screening of Friendship's Death (her first credit as producer, starring Tilda Swinton), and will introduce the screening of Palme d'Or winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley; and director Carol Morley will attend a special preview of her latest film Out of Blue starring Patricia Clarkson, which screens as part of a mini retrospective from 13-16 March that also includes screenings of three of her earlier shorts as well as the critically acclaimed The Falling, starring Maxine Peake, Florence Pugh and Maisie Williams
· Special screening of new documentary A Deal With The Universe followed by a discussion with Manchester-based producer Loran Dunn on 12 April. A Deal With The Universe is the autobiographical debut feature from Transgender filmmaker Jason Barker, charting the incredible story of how Jason came to give birth to his child, and offering intimate insight into gender identity and new parenthood
· Screening of The Seashell and the Clergyman with a live score from Sheffield-based musical project In The Nursery on 9 June. Widely recognised as the first surrealist film and hailed by the BFI as one of the “10 great feminist films”, The Seashell and the Clergyman is an important early example of radical experimental feminist filmmaking. Director Germaine Dulac delivers a complex, multi-layered film featuring a deeply subversive central female character. The film will screen with a new soundtrack courtesy of In The Nursery who have presented live electronic accompaniment to numerous silent classics in addition to releasing more than two dozen albums and appearing on soundtracks and trailers for films including Gran Torino and Game of Thrones
· Further highlights coming later in the year with specific dates yet to be announced include: Women, Organise! in May, a special season of films focussing on women’s activism and involvement in trade unionism marking the 120th anniversary of the GFTU (General Federation of Trade Unions) in 2019; and, in October, a special retrospective of Euzhan Palcy - the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio picture (A Dry White Season, 1989) and the first black director to win a French César award.
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