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Independent Miss Craigie

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.

Details

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Runtime

93 min

Release Date

2020-08-25

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Vote Count

1

Vote Average

8

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

Mimi Haddon

Jill Craigie

Cornelius Clarke

John Davis

Steven Connery

Jeffrey Dell

Paul White

J Arthur Rank

Bryan Hands

Michael Foot

Catherine Humphrys

Sylvia Pankhurst

Gareth Wildig

Welsh Man

Jill Craigie

Herself (Archive Footage)

Julie Hamilton

Herself

Michael Foot

Himself (Archive Footage)

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