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2020-08-251h 33m

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Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.

Directors
Lizzie Thynne
Editors
Vera Simmonds

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  1. Mimi Haddon

    Mimi Haddon

    Jill Craigie

  2. Cornelius Clarke

    Cornelius Clarke

    John Davis

  3. Steven Connery

    Steven Connery

    Jeffrey Dell

  4. Paul White

    Paul White

    J Arthur Rank

  5. Bryan Hands

    Bryan Hands

    Michael Foot

  6. Catherine Humphrys

    Catherine Humphrys

    Sylvia Pankhurst

  7. Gareth Wildig

    Gareth Wildig

    Welsh Man

  8. Jill Craigie

    Jill Craigie

    Herself (Archive Footage)

  9. Julie Hamilton

    Julie Hamilton

    Herself

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Original Language
English
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Keywords
socialismfeminism