Girls On Film

Sara Dosa, the director and co-writer of documentary Fire of Love joins Anna Smith in London for a live Q&A following a screening of her film. The extraordinary documentary, from National Geographic Documentary Films, mines the extensive film and image archive of intrepid French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. The fascinating couple died as explosively as they lived, whilst doing what they loved best: exploring their greatest passion, volcanoes, whilst simultaneously capturing the most spectacular volcano imagery ever recorded. Fire of Love has been nominated for a 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a 2023 BAFTA for Best Documentary, and a Girls On Film Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film won many awards in 2022, including a Black Film Critics Circle Awards. You can watch Fire of Love now on Disney+ Other films mentioned in this episode include: Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, 2005 The Seer and the Unseen, Sara Dosa, 2019 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Sound Recordist and Audio Producer: Cam Griffiths Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with National Geographic Documentary Films

This episode of Girls On Film is dedicated to BAFTA-nominated drama Blue Jean, which is set in 1980s Newcastle, at a time when Thatcher’s government was making life very difficult for gay people in the UK. The law ‘Section 28’ forbade “the teaching in schools of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. Rosy McEwen puts in a terrific performance as teacher Jean, who has to keep her sexuality a secret, and is put in a difficult position when she meets a pupil of hers in a lesbian bar. Anna Smith talks with writer-director Georgia Oakley and producer Hélène Sifre, as well as with lead actor Rosy McEwen and Kerrie Hayes, who plays Jean's girlfriend Viv. UK listeners can watch Blue Jean in cinemas from 10 February. Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Audio Producer: Benjamin Cook Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer.

Live from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Anna Smith is joined on stage by an international panel of inspiring industry figures. Prolific power-house Christine Vachon chats about how it feels to have produced over 100 films, and the job of using “disruption for opportunity”. She also has valuable advice for would-be producers. Friend of Girls On Film Dutch film critic Dana Linssen co-curated the Critics’ Choice selection at IFFR for the ninth year running. She joins Anna to speak about her love for this year’s female-directed films in the strand, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Nafiss Nia’s That Afternoon (or Die middag). In That Afternoon, which received its world premiere this year at the festival, director Nafiss Nia takes us with refugee Roya, played by Hoda Niku, as her life intersects with Nassim, played by Alin Wishka, one afternoon. Nafiss Nia joins Anna and Dana on-stage to give insight into her film, and the importance in her filmmaking of language in her “father tongue” Dutch, as a poet and native Persian speaker. Anna is also joined by Superposition director Karoline Lyngbye and one of the film’s stars, Marie Bach Hansen, who plays Stine. Superposition follows writer Stine and her partner, podcaster Teit (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) as they retreat off-grid for a year with their son Nemo to save their relationship, until … well, that’s all we can say without spoilers! Karoline and Marie speak about their experience of working in Denmark in film, television and theatre and the discussions they had about gender while making the film. 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place from the 25th January 2023 to the 5th February 2023. For all information go to: https://iffr.com/en Hear Vanja Kaludjercic, director of IFFR, talk more about the festival and programme on episode 137 of Girls On Film: https://pod.fo/e/15b92a Films mentioned in this episode include: The Woman King, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022 The Wonder, Sebastián Lelio, 2022 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Sophie Hyde, 2022 Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, 2022 That Afternoon (aka Die middag), Nafiss Nia, 2023 Past Lives, Celine Song, 2023 Zola, Janicza Bravo, 2020 Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes, 2022 The Notorious Bettie Page, Mary Harron, 2005 She Came to Me, Rebecca Miller, 2023 (Starring Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage, Joanna Kulig, Brian d'Arcy James) The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999 Superposition, Karoline Lyngbye, 2023 The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers, 2019 Television mentioned in this episode include: Dansegarderoben, 2023 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith. Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Emma Butt Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants Principal Partners: Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer. This episode is in partnership with International Film Festival Rotterdam Credit: Sony Pictures for Zola clip.

Novelist Emma Donoghue joins writer-director and male ally Sebastián Lelio to talk with Anna Smith about his new film based on Emma’s book, co-written by Alice Birch. The Wonder, which has earned a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film (and Girls On Film Award nominations for Best Feature Film sponsored by EON Productions, The Girls On Film Ally Award sponsored by IMDb for Sebastián Lelio, Best Cinematographer for Ari Wegner, and Best Female Orgasm sponsored by Intimacy on Set for Florence Pugh) is available to watch on Netflix now. This powerful film stars Florence Pugh as Lib, an English nurse who in 1862, following the Great Famine, is called to Ireland and asked to watch over an 11-year-old girl called Anna, who claims not to have eaten for four months, played by brilliant newcomer Kila Lord Cassidy. In this episode, Emma Donoghue, whose previous novel Room was made into an Oscar-winning film, talks about the thrill of becoming a fan of her own work as brilliant and expert collaborators create films of her stories, and why Sebastián Lelio is a true ally. Also, Sebastián Lelio discusses with Anna the brutality of filmmaking and why creating a precise and delicate set is so important. He also talks about casting the “warrior-like” Florence Pugh, with her unique connection with the audience, and discovering the astonishing Kila Lord Cassidy to star opposite Pugh. UK listeners can watch The Wonder on Netflix now. Information and advice on eating disorders can be found on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/overview/ Other films mentioned in this episode include: A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, 2017 Gloria Bell, Sebastián Lelio, 2018 Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio, 2017 Room, Lenny Abrahamson, 2015 Lady Macbeth, William Oldroyd, 2016 Television series mentioned in this episode include: Station Eleven, 2021-2022 Normal People, 2020 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith. Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Nic Wassell Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with Netflix.

Intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien talked with Girls On Film co-founder Hedda Archbold at last summer’s Latitude Festival about the work of her company, Intimacy On Set. She explains the way their work is transforming on-set working practices, and the kind of intimate scenes we see on screen – as well as how we think about consent in our everyday lives. In this episode we announce that on 23 February 2023, the second Girls On Film Awards will be held at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, co-hosted once again by Girls On Film host Anna Smith, and co-founder and exec producer Hedda Archbold. We are delighted to champion the amazing work done by women in film over the past year. We’ll be joined by some brilliant female filmmakers, and Ita O’Brien will be a special guest at the event, giving industry context to our Best Female Orgasm Award. In this episode of Girls On Film you can hear all about Ita O’Brien’s approach to the portrayal of sexuality on screen. Films and television series mentioned in this episode include: Normal People, Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, written by Alice Birch, Mark O’Rowe and Sally Rooney (based on the novel by Sally Rooney) I May Destroy You, written, directed, produced by and starring Michaela Coel It’s a Sin, created by Russell T Davies, starring Olly Alexander and Lydia West Lady Chatterley’s Lover, directed by Laure Clermont de Tonnere, screenplay by David Magee based on the novel by DH Lawrence, starring Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith. Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Audio Producer: Benjamin Cook Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants

Naomi Ackie, the British star of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, talks to Anna Smith about preparing for her portrayal of the musical icon. Ackie has been longlisted for a BAFTA Film Award for Leading Actress for her extraordinary performance. She explains how important it was to her that the audience was being shown a side of Houston that perhaps they hadn’t seen before, particularly with her same-sex relationship with her girl friend Robyn Crawford. They also discuss the importance of having a female director, Kasi Lemmons, at the helm with the involvement of Whitney Houston's long-time producer Clive Davis, who is played by Stanley Tucci. Anna is also joined by Vanja Kaludjercic, the director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, giving insight into the 2023 programme and what it is that makes this film festival special. Vanja and Anna talk diversity, inclusion and internationalism within film and film festivals, and Vanja also picks out a few of this year’s highlights. Vanja also talks about why she has invited Girls On Film to return for the third time in January 2023 to record a live podcast episode - check back soon for that episode. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody was released in theatres nationwide in December 2022. 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam is taking place from the 25th January 2023 to the 5th February 2023. For all information go to: https://iffr.com/en Other films mentioned in this episode include: The Plains, David Easteal, 2022 Mayday! May day! Mayday!, Yonri Revolt, 2022 Deadly Love Poem, Garin Nugroho, 2022 Sri Asih, Upi Avianto, 2022 Like & Share, Gina S. Noer, 2022 Indivision, Leïla Kilani, 2023 Le spectre de Boko Haram, Cyrielle Raingou, 2023 Mama dan so que sorriso, Cyrielle Raingou, 2023 Gagaland, Teng Yuhan, 2023 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith. Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Emma Butt Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants Principal Partners: Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer. Thank you also to our Patreon Supporters.

This week is all about horror as we’re joined by film critic Clarisse Loughrey. She joins Anna to share her thoughts on gender and female identity in the contemporary horror genre, particularly through the new Spanish horror film Piggy. Piggy stars Laura Galán as Sara, an overweight teen in rural small town Spain, whose bullying at the hands of the ‘in crowd’ takes a turn when a stranger arrives. Piggy’s writer and director, filmmaker Carlota Pereda, speaks to Anna about her motivations behind making the film, as an embodiment of her own personal fears and her filmic inspirations. UK listeners can watch Piggy in cinemas from the 6th January 2023 Other films mentioned in this episode include: Stoker, Park Chan-wook, 2013 Las rubias (The Blondes), Carlota Pereda, 2016 Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis, 2001 Who Can Kill a Child?, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1976 Eden Lake, James Watkins, 2008 Stranger by the Lake (Original title: L'inconnu du lac), Alain Guiraudie, 2013 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Follow Clarisse Loughrey on socials: www.twitter.com/clarisselou Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Cam Griff Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with Vertigo Releasing

When Mark Kermode, feminist ally of Girls On Film, and one of the UK’s top film critics, expressed a wish to come on the Girls On Film podcast, Anna Smith asked listeners in an online poll which recent films they would like the two of them to discuss on the show. They discuss two recent films, beginning with a Don't Worry Darling review. **SPOILER ALERT** from 11:01 they move into spoiler territory, so skip to 18:36 if you'd like to avoid that. They then discuss The Woman King, as well as the winner of the Sight and Sound poll of the top 100 films of all time, Jeanne Dielman; why awards matter, the sense and nonsense of making lists of favourite films, and whether the film industry is making advances where gender parity is concerned. Mark Kermode is film critic for The Observer, co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Screenshot alongside Ellen E Jones, host of his own film music programme on Scala Radio, and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Take podcast. Don’t Worry Darling is available on all the usual platforms in the UK. The Woman King will be available on digital January 30th and on DVD February 13th 2023. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is available to stream on BFI Player in The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time collection on BFI Player – which now includes over 50 titles from the top 100 to rent or for subscribers. The full top 100 will also screen at BFI Southbank throughout January, February and March. Films mentioned in this episode are: Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, 2022 The Woman King, Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022 Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde, 2022 Blonde, Andrew Dominik, 2022 The Souvenir, Part II, Joanna Hogg, 2021 Stepford Wives, Bryan Forbes, 1975 Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski, 1968 Get Out, Jordan Peele, 2017 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman, 1975 Braveheart, Mel Gibson, 1975 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised, Questlove, 2021 Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, 1970 Amazing Grace, Alan Elliott, 2018 Heavy Load, Jerry Rothwell, 2008 Dig!, Ondi Timoner, 2004 Safe, Todd Haynes, 1995 Poison, Todd Haynes, 1991 Enys Men, Mark Jenkin, 2022 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, 1941 Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith. Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Audio Producer: Nic Wassell Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with our principal partners, Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer.

Gillian Anderson, Kate Hudson & Kathryn Hahn join Anna Smith to talk about their new films hitting Netflix. The always brilliant Gillian Anderson delves into her career in the industry, and the changes she has seen for women. She speaks about her character process and how she approached her distinctive role in the new Netflix mystery The Pale Blue Eye, a murder mystery starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling as a young Edgar Allen Poe. Also the hilarious Kate Hudson and Kathryn Hahn chat to Anna about their full circle of working together, most recently on Glass Onion, the brilliant follow up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out in which Detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a new whodunnit. You can watch Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix from the 23rd December, and The Pale Blue Eye is in select UK cinemas from 23rd December available globally on Netflix from the 6th of January. Television series mentioned in this episode include: Great Expectations, 2011 The Fall, 2013-2016 Sex Education, 2019-2021 The X Files, 1993-2018 The Great, 2021 White Bird, Marc Forster Become a patron of Girls on Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Benjamin Cook Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants Principal Partners: Vanessa Smith and Peter Brewer. Thank you also to our Patreon Supporters: Lisa Fraser-Ashton Colin Udall Stephen Baxter Rebecca del Tufo Julie Elizabeth Robards Sophie Fyles Claire Vaughan and Jessica Phillips

Lila Neugebauer, the director of Jennifer Lawrence’s new film Causeway, joins Anna Smith to discuss the film, which is available on AppleTV+ now. Lila chats in-depth about the journey of the characters in the film, and her own from theatre director to film director. She discusses her admiration for the filmmakers who influenced her, who share an economy in their use of cinematic language – and she gives us an “invitation to patience” with her work. Causeway is a beautifully nuanced film, written by Ottessa Moshfeg, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders. It features a fantastic central performance by Jennifer Lawrence as Lynsey, a soldier who is recovering after an explosion in Afghanistan. Heading home to New Orleans, she struggles to reconnect with her mother and ends up forming a friendship with a mechanic called James, brilliantly played by Brian Tyree Henry. Causeway is available globally on Apple TV+ Become a patron of Girls on Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio Producer: Cam Griff Intern: Eleanor Hardy House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with Apple Original Films