Girls On Film

Anna welcomes Mia Bays (Birds Eye View), Eve Gabereau (Modern Films) Akua Gyamfi (The British Blacklist) and actor Muna Otaru (The Keeping Room) to a special episode from Annabel’s club in association with FiXX. Films reviewed include Jellyfish and The Breaker Upperers, while those put to the Bechdel Test range from Back To The Future to The Phantom Thread. FiXX is an international multi-media programme: a collaboration between the film industry, media owners, gender diversity organisations and activists. FiXX has been founded to ensure better worldwide distribution of films made by women and the promotion of leading gender diversity initiatives. Their activities include a documentary series, film distribution fund, influencer events and a digital content channel. www.fixx.group Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow our guests on @miafilms @ModernFilmsEnt @BritBlacklist ‏ @munaotaru and @annasmithjourno. #GirlsOnFilm

Miranda Sawyer and Francine Stock join Anna Smith to review Barbarella, Colette and Out Of Blue in the first in a series of episode recorded live from HOME in Manchester. Audience questions raise the topic of working class women in films, while films put to the Bechdel Test include If Beale Street Could Talk, Isle Of Dogs and Frozen. Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow our guests on Twitter: @msmirandasawyer  @FrancineFilm and @annasmithjourno. Look out for future Girls On Film events at homemcr.org as part of their year-long Celebrating Women in Global Cinema season.

International Women’s Day exclusive! Brie Larson and Lashana Lynch join host Anna Smith to discuss Captain Marvel, the first stand-alone female superhero movie in the Marvel universe. Topics include female friendship, diversity in criticism, cleavage shots and cat allergies. Anna also welcomes back critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh to review the film. Girls On Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long.

Live from Glasgow Film Festival 2019, episode 6 of Girls On Film sees host Anna Smith welcoming Observer critic Simran Hans, Dirty God director Sacha Polak and GFF’s own Allison Gardner. The panel has a lively discussion about new releases Wild Rose and The Kindergarten Teacher, and debates on the charms of Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. Meanwhile films put to the Bechdel Test range from Thelma & Louise to Minding The Gap. All this plus audience questions and news on the Bumble Female Film Force. Girls On Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long.

Recorded at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, episode 5 of Girls On Film features reviews of films including The Favourite, Dirty God, Second Act and The House that Jack Built from host Anna Smith and her guests, film critics Dana Linssen and Tara Judah. The team also has a lively discussion with the audience about gender and film criticism. Girls On Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long.

Host and film critic Anna Smith is joined by Kate Stables and Steph Watts to exclusively reveal the results of The Bechdel Test Fest's poll, which asked female film critics to select the best films of 2018. The critics also discuss Oscar contender Roma and hear from star Marina de Tavira. Meanwhile Anna interviews Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins about the Netflix film Private Life. Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow Anna on Twitter @annasmithjourno

Episode 3 of Girls On Film is a Time’s Up special in which Anna Smith and special guests chat about female roles, the pay gap, sisterhood and more. Anna Smith is joined in the studio by actor Andrea Riseborough, whose new film Nancy comes from an all-female crew, and Birds Eye View’s Mia Bays, who is championing the diverse UK musical Been So Long. Out and about, Anna interviews Carey Mulligan about feminism, body image and playing against type in the period film Wildlife. Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow Anna on Twitter @annasmithjourno

In episode 2 of Girls On Film, host Anna Smith is joined by film critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Helen O'Hara to review A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga and directed by Bradley Cooper. Films put to the Bechdel Test include Ant-Man and the Wasp, Pili, The Breaker Upperers, Bad Times at the El Royale and Venom. Finally, writer-director Carol Morley chats to Anna at the London Film Festival about her upcoming film Out Of Blue. Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow Anna on Twitter @annasmithjourno

Girls On Film is a new film review podcast from a female perspective, hosted by film critic and broadcaster Anna Smith. Episode 1 (pilot): This week, the Girls On Film review Agnes Varda’s Faces Places, debate diversity in film criticism and put new movies to the Bechdel Test, including Widows, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, First Man, American Animals and a surprise choice that we dub ‘Spanx and the City’… Host: Anna Smith, Critics’ Circle President and film critic for the BBC, Sky, Time Out, Metro, Sight & Sound and The Guardian. Guests: Kate Muir, former chief film critic at the Times and now a screenwriter and campaigner with Time’s Up UK, Women and Hollywood and Birds’ Eye View. Corrina Antrobus, film writer and founder of the Bechdel Test Fest. An HLA Production, Executive producer Hedda Archbold, Producer Jane Long Music courtesy of MX Tyrants Follow Anna on Twitter @annasmithjourno