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watch my “The Rise and Fall of the Girl Boss” panel from Woman with a Movie Camera Summit 2021

Tue, Feb 01, 2022
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It’s just been posted to YouTube in its entirety. Enjoy!

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I’m on two panels at the BFI’s Woman with a Movie Camera fest (now available globally!)

Wed, Jul 14, 2021
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In addition to my two prerecorded panels, I will pop into the live Zoom socials on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. You must buy your ticket by 5pm UK time on Friday. Please join us!

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London photo: Christmas at the BFI

Thu, Dec 24, 2015
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At the Southbank HQ of the British Film Institute.

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London photos: sci-fi props and costumes up for auction

Fri, Sep 11, 2015
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A bunch of way-cool props, costumes, and memorabilia from SF/F and adjacent movies and TV shows are on display at BFI IMAX ahead of an auction.

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London photos: space-age toilets

Tue, Nov 25, 2014
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At the BFI Southbank for its Days of Fear and Wonder…

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how movies fail girls and women (fans and filmmakers alike)

Mon, Nov 24, 2014
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Girls and women love movies just as much as boys and men do. But it’s a love that gets thrown back in our faces by 95 percent of films.

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Doctor Who thing: the brief moment late 80s/early 90s when print fanzines flourished

Thu, Jan 30, 2014
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It was pre-Internet, but desktop publishing and cheap and readily accessible xeroxing made fan publishing easy(ish)…

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evening clickbait: Gravity is a British film; Inspector Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson share clothes; how the Twilight Zone reflects 2010s paranoia

Wed, Jan 08, 2014
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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geeky Christmas: watch 110-year-old silent short “The Mistletoe Bough”

Wed, Jan 01, 2014
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Check out a creepy Gothic holiday tale, streaming at BFI Player.

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evening clickbait: *cough* Homefront *cough*; good news for women filmmakers; a six-year-old boy is wise about Frozen

Thu, Nov 28, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today. (Well, actually, yesterday.)

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