Ellen Cheshire

Jane Campion was born on this day in 1954. To celebrate this great filmmaker make May the month where you'll catch up with her short...

I think this may well be the fastest watch of 52 films #DirectedbyWomen. With the 15th batch of 52 completed on 29 January, here's the...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 15th batch of 52 films since...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 14th batch of 52 films since...

Back in March 2022, for International Women's Day, I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 13th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021- Stories Women Tell, where I selected a single film per year,...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 12th batch of 52 films since...

For International Women's Day I did a blog, Stories Women Tell: Films #DirectedbyWomen 2000 -2021, where I selected a single film per...

The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is #BreakingtheBias, where we are asked to: Imagine a gender equal world... A world free of...

With the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 11th batch of 52 films since...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 10th batch of 52 "films"...

Well, with the notional 'year' element that came with the #52FilmsByWomen pledge out the window, this is now my 9th batch of 52 "films"...

In celebration of International Women's Day in March 2020, I set myself the challenge to pick one film a year, directed by a woman since...

With the additional time saved from working from home and money saved from not going out, I have been watching more films at home, a mix...

And so the 5th Femme Film Festival is over for another year, but don't worry you can still view many of the shorts, and catch up on news,...

With Sally Potter's latest film The Roads Not Taken being released in September 2020, and Orlando being curated as part of the 5th Femme...

The 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival started on Friday 28 August 2020 and over the next 10 days there's a curated programme in three...

Working from home (no commuting) and no access to cinemas has meant that in this reclaimed time I have been continuing my #52FilmsByWomen...

What a thrill and honour it was to have been asked by Robin Write, Editor in Chief of Filmotomy, if I'd be on the Jury for this year's...