Independent Miss Craigie

Independent Miss Craigie

2020 en 93 minutes

Rating: 8

Plot

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.

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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)

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