Independent Miss Craigie

Independent Miss Craigie

2020
1h 33m
8.0

8.0/10

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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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date August 25, 2020
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt19265810
Website Visit Site

Cast

Mimi Haddon
Mimi Haddon

Jill Craigie

Cornelius Clarke
Cornelius Clarke

John Davis

Steven Connery
Steven Connery

Jeffrey Dell

Paul White
Paul White

J Arthur Rank

Bryan Hands
Bryan Hands

Michael Foot

Catherine Humphrys
Catherine Humphrys

Sylvia Pankhurst

Gareth Wildig
Gareth Wildig

Welsh Man

Jill Craigie
Jill Craigie

Herself (Archive Footage)

Julie Hamilton
Julie Hamilton

Herself

Michael Foot
Michael Foot

Himself (Archive Footage)

Key Crew

Lizzie Thynne
Director
Lizzie Thynne
Producer