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Independent Miss Craigie (2020)

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.

  • Documentary

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Mimi HaddonMimi HaddonJill Craigie
  • Photo of Cornelius ClarkeCornelius ClarkeJohn Davis
  • Photo of Steven ConnerySteven ConneryJeffrey Dell
  • Photo of Paul WhitePaul WhiteJ Arthur Rank
  • Photo of Bryan HandsBryan HandsMichael Foot
  • Photo of Catherine HumphrysCatherine HumphrysSylvia Pankhurst
  • Photo of Gareth WildigGareth WildigWelsh Man
  • Photo of Jill CraigieJill CraigieHerself (Archive Footage)
  • Photo of Julie HamiltonJulie HamiltonHerself
  • Photo of Michael FootMichael FootHimself (Archive Footage)

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