Celebrating LGBT+ film with the Iris Prize Festival
Earlier this year, Suryatapa Mukherjee joined the team behind the Iris Prize Festival to help produce its programme catalogue. She gives us a run-down of what to expect from this year’s festival
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Fighting for The Feminist Library with film
The Feminist Library is a treasure trove of feminist history and needs support more than ever, which is why Anaïs Charles made a film about it
Why we’re Raising Films
Sophie Mayer introduces Raising Films, a campaign aiming to bring diversity and sustainability into the film industry by organising parents and carers
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: a secret thread of feminist elders revealed
Sophie Mayer recommends documentaries to watch out for, hand-picked from this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest line-up
Feminist porn: revolution or reinvention?
Yesterday, I read an article on feminist porn and, as a result, followed links to various websites to investigate further. What I found looked rather worthy and not much fun but is this because fundamentally feminism and porn are diametrically opposed? How can pornography be filmed and presented in a way that satisfies feminists?
The Punk Singer: How to Be a Rebel Girl
Inspired by Sini Anderson's documentary about the original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna, Sophie Mayer lays out six riotous rules
“I’d rather sell my c*nt than my paintings”
Having caught two independent documentaries at the first ever London Chinese Independent Film Festival, M. Lý-Eliot considers women artists' position in China 20 years ago and today
A place of rage: two black feminist documentaries
Lola Okolosie from Black Feminists reviews A Place of Rage and Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, two films by documentary filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, and considers what contemporary black feminists have learnt from the influential black women featured
