J Arthur Rank
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.
Executive Producer
As operárias da fábrica da Ford de Dagenham vivenciam uma rotina desgastante de trabalho, atrelada a condições precárias e longas jornadas. O basta vem em 1968 quando são classificadas como não qualificadas. Motivadas por Rita O’Grady, as mulheres passam a reivindicar a igualdade de direitos em relação aos salários e o fim da discriminação sexual. Inicialmente direcionada aos patrões, a manifestação se volta contra o governo em uma luta que foi fundamental para que o parlamento britânico consolidasse o Projeto de Paridade Salarial em 1970.
