Girls On Film

Cannes special! Girls On Film hits the Cannes Film Festival with an episode recorded at the UK Film Centre in front of an industry audience. Films reviewed include Portrait Of A Lady On Fire and The Dead Don’t Die along with Cannes classics like We Need To Talk About Kevin. Our guest film critics are Leslie Felperin and Ella Kemp while Melissa Silverstein and Delphyne Besse discuss activism at Cannes and beyond. We have an exclusive offer for listeners: we’ve teamed up with our friends at MUBI to give you a whole month of curated films to stream, plus four free hand-picked UK cinema tickets! Register at mubi.com/girlsonfilm Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and audio producer Kellie Redmond This episode supported by Independent Film Company, UEG and FiXX. Leslie Felperin is a film critic writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and The Guardian. Ella Kemp is a freelance writer for Culture Whisper, Empire, Little White Lies and Sight & Sound. Delphyne Besse is an international sales agent, Head of Sales and Acquisitions at Urban Distribution International and co-founder of the gender equality movement in France, Collectif 50/50x2020. Melissa Silverstein is is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, and Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Athena Film Festival

Amma Asante joins Anna Smith and film critics Wendy Lloyd and Angie Errigo for a special episode in front of an audience at The AllBright Club Mayfair. Asante talks about her new film, Where Hands Touch, as well as her career, inspirations and being a film director in the age of Time’s Up. Films reviewed include Avengers: Endgame and Woman At War; while the panel discuss research around critical responses to the sexual violence in Red Sparrow. Releases put to the Bechdel Test range from Claire Denis’ High Life to Dragged Across Concrete, while audience questions bring out fascinating issues around gender, film and bias. Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow our guests on @AmmaAsante @amerrigoround  @WendyLloydvoice ‏and @annasmithjourno.

Us, Eighth Grade and Madeline’s Madeline are reviewed by Anna and her guests: Total Film’s Jane Crowther and BBC’s Rhianna Dhillon.  Recorded live at HOME in Manchester, episode 10 also features lively audience contributions and the panel dissect The Pajama Game, Dirty Dancing, Bend It Like Beckham, Passengers, Thor: Ragnarok, Whiplash and Greta. Find out why Bo Burnham is our first male interviewee, and hear from director Josephine Decker about Madeline’s Madeline, which is in cinemas and on MUBI from May 10 (mubi.com/madeline). We have an exciting exclusive offer for listeners: we’ve teamed up with our friends at MUBI to give you a whole month of curated films to stream, plus four free hand-picked UK cinema tickets! Register at mubi.com/girlsonfilm Girls on Film is an HLA production, produced by Hedda Archbold and Jane Long. Follow us on Twitter: @totalfilm_jane ‏@RhiannaDhillon and @annasmithjourno. Like us on www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast/ Look out for future Girls On Film events at homemcr.org as part of their year-long Celebrating Women in Global Cinema season.

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