Wellywood Woman

Anna Keir Self Image  (1981 silk screen on cotton 58x43.5)  I. How women artists disappear from history As Sarah Polley  said the other day , “It’s really lonely being a female filmmaker, there really aren’t that many women doing this job.” If we can't connect to our women filmmaker histories, it's even lonelier. Women's histories disappear so quickly. We – and our intellectual and artistic achievements – get forgotten. Often because of lack of resources.

Today's The Day!  The Bitch Pack , ‘changing women's representation on screen – starting with the written page’, has just announced the results of its first annual  Bitch List  (scripts with Brilliant, Intriguing, Creative, Tenacious Heroines). It's a tally of industry votes for scripts seen (but not yet produced) in 2012 that pass  The Bechdel Test   Each script must have: 1. At least two [named] women in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something besides a man. It's a fine occasion and complements the Bitch Pack’s award at Shriekfest, for a horror screenplay that passes the Bechdel Test.  The Bitch Pack  is not alone in its activism. The  Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) diversity reports  first exposed me to activism within that huge film industry based on the United States' west coast. Every two years, the reports examine trends in film and television employment ...