Women Film Pioneers

We're turning 10 in October, and celebrating at @MoMAFilm!!!

Happy Birthday to Soviet screenwriter Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko! "Having studied music, in 1908 she worked for several months as a silent film accompanist in Ekaterinodar...[and] managed to turn even the film theater into a secret Bolshevik meeting place." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/nina-a…

Registration is now open for Entr'acte 2024, an online event taking place November 22 and 23. wfhi.org/entracte-2024

Elsie Jane Wilson was one of numerous actresses who began directing at Universal Pictures in the 1910s. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-el… #BornOnThisDay

Léontine is pleased to announce that she will be voting for Kamala Harris tomorrow!!! 🗳️🎈

"Elizaveta Thiemann is the first credited female film director in Russia, which is a substantial accomplishment in and of itself. But she is best known for her work as a producer." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/elizav… #BOTD

"Ruth Goetz, one of the most prolific writers for film in Germany in the period 1916-1927, with about sixty-five titles including original scripts and adaptations credited to her name, is not well known today." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ru…… #BornOnThisDay

Happy Birthday to Aleksandra Khokhlova! "Khokhlova was much more than Kuleshov’s wife and muse as in her own right she was a talented author, actress, and film director, an artist in formation long before she met Kuleshov." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/aleksa…

Proposals for Women and the Silent Screen XII are due in less than one month!! We can't wait to see what you submit 📽️ wfhi.org/2025-brussels-…

Very sad news. So many of the wonderful images on WFPP came from Joe!

"I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Cinema’s First Nasty Women is worthy of the adjective “monumental.” Every library should have a copy of this important work." We're kvelling over this rave review of CFNW by Lawrence Howe! 🎞️📀 muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/…

In July 1914, Audrie Alspaugh began signing a daily film review column, “Today’s Best Photo Play Stories,” with the nom de plume of Kitty Kelly. Soon after, she retitled the column “Flickerings from Filmland.” wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/audrie…

The Flapper (1920), scripted by Frances Marion, screens at @EastmanMuseum on November 5! eastman.org/event/film-scr…

"By the time Margery Wilson reached her late twenties, she had completed her work as a film director." #BOTD wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ma…

Save the date! @HippFestScot returns to the historic Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness next March.

Don’t forget to register for our closing conference "Cultural Heritage Data & Power", which will take place Nov 14–16, 2024 at Philipps-Universität Marburg!✨ Registration is open until Thursday, Oct 31, 2024. 👉 uni-marburg.de/CaPWG1 #DAVIF #DH #DataFeminism #DigitalMethods

British producer & actress (and aunt of Ida Lupino) Nell Emerald was born on this date in 1882! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ne…

Scottish filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson was born on this date in 1902! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-je…

Jane Murfin (born Oct. 27, 1884) wrote or co-wrote over 60 films and was a producer who championed strong female roles. Her biggest success in the 1920s was writing scenarios for her dog, Strongheart. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ja…

"The highlight of Canadian-American Nell Shipman’s career in the US is the 1921–1925 period in which she ran a motion picture company from the isolated woods of Idaho." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ne… #BOTD