Call September Women’s Cinema History Month. #DirectedByWomen is hosting a month-long Worldwide Film Viewing Party to celebrate and recognize the thousands of films, television shows, web series, and all forms of motion pictures created by women, and inviting everyone to join in from now through September 30.
As the official announcement details, “#DirectedbyWomen urges film lovers and feminists to organize or attend screenings of these films in their community. These can be house parties, panels, community screenings, film festivals, or any other video-watching event. Participants can find an event or post their own in the #DirectedbyWomen Global Calendar found on the organization’s website.”
“I’m inviting people to realize that if they step back and look at the bigger picture, they’ll see that since the very beginning of cinema women have pursued filmmaking as directors and now we’re at a time where there’s an explosion of filmmaking by women directors. Let’s turn our attention to what they’ve created and are creating,” said #DirectedByWomen founder Barbara Ann O’Leary.
The first Worldwide Film Viewing Party ran from September 1–15 last year and inspired film viewing parties around the world and even a five-day festival in Spain.
Agnès films, a web-based platform that supports women filmmakers, partnered with O’Leary for this year’s promotion and created the video below exploring how little female directors and their work are known. Give it a watch below, and take part in the month-long viewing party.
