News – Women Film Pioneers Project

Dec 18, 2024 New Publication: Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices
Dec 6, 2024 Now available online: Vicenta (Musidora, 1919)
Dec 3, 2024 Fellowship Project Update: Corinne Griffith Profile in Texas Monthly
New Book on June Mathis Available for Preorder Now!
Nov 18, 2024 Women Film Pioneers Featured in Film Series at Film Forum, November 18 – December 30, 2024
Nov 13, 2024 Entr’acte 2024: Creative Historiography, November 22 & 23, 2024, Online
Nov 10, 2024 Conference: “Cultural Heritage Data and Power,” November 14-16, 2024, Marburg, Germany
Oct 13, 2024 CFP: Women and the Silent Screen XII, “Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema”
Oct 8, 2024 CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII Conference, “Entangled Media: Past & Present”
Sep 29, 2024 Film Festival: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, October 5-12, 2024
Sep 25, 2024 Film Festival: Denver Silent Film Festival, September 27-29, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 Online event with the Weimar Film Network: “Weimar Germany’s First Nasty Women,” September 25, 2024
Sep 5, 2024 Film Series: “Silent Cinema Pioneers: From Alice Guy-Blaché to Lois Weber,” BAMPFA, September 14-25, 2024
CFP: SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize, Deadline October 1, 2024
Aug 28, 2024 Online film series: “Rebels at the Typewriter: Women Screenwriters of the 1930s,” The Criterion Channel
Aug 26, 2024 Save the Date: Women and the Silent Screen XII, June 11-14, 2025 in Belgium!
Aug 13, 2024 CFP: special dossier on “Mujeres en el cine silente latinoamericano: trabajo, representación, recepción” for Vivomatografías
Aug 8, 2024 Fellowship Project Update: June Mathis Profile in Local Paper
Aug 1, 2024 Film Festival: Stummfilmtage Bonn, in person and online, August 8-18, 2024
Jul 25, 2024 Film Series: MoMA Silent Movie Week 2024, July 31-August 6
Jul 17, 2024 Film Festival: Maine Silent Film Festival, July 24-25, 2024
Jul 5, 2024 WFPP project manger, Kate Saccone, picks 5 films for San Francisco Silent Film Festival Instagram project
Jun 25, 2024 CFP: The Domitor Student Essay Award. Deadline: September 20, 2024
Jun 21, 2024 Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 22-30, 2024
Jun 13, 2024 Conference: Domitor, Vienna, Austria, June 11-15, 2024
Jun 7, 2024 Newly restored Germaine Dulac film now streaming!
May 14, 2024 Date & Theme Announced for “Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII”
Apr 25, 2024 Watch Alice Guy’s The Empress (1917) on HENRI!
Mar 25, 2024 CFP: “Cultural Heritage Data & Power. Exploring Digital Collections and Situated Knowledges in Film History and Beyond,” November 14-16, 2024, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Feb 25, 2024 “Drama Queens: When Melodrama Meets Film,” Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, March 8-15, 2024
Feb 13, 2024 Cinema’s First Nasty Women: A Demographic Survey
Feb 12, 2024 New Book: Dorothy Arzner: Interviews, edited by Martin F. Norden
Feb 8, 2024 Film Festival: The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, Bo’ness, Scotland, March 20-24, 2024
Jan 30, 2024 Listen to “Silent Women,” a collection of poems about silent-era women filmmakers by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
Jan 22, 2024 Online Event: “Frances Marion, Hollywood’s Favourite Storyteller,” Friday, Jan 26, 2024
Jan 8, 2024 Review of Doing Women’s Film and Television History (June 2023) now online!
Dec 22, 2023 “Leading Ladies of Silent Cinema,” Filmarchiv Austria, December 2023 – February 2024
Dec 3, 2023 Film series: “Mulheres Pioneiras no Cinema,” Cinemateca Brasileira, December 6-17, 2023
Nov 1, 2023 WFPP User Survey (open through November 16, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 The Fall 2023 issue of Feminist Media Histories is now out!
Sep 26, 2023 Film Series: “Songs of Love and Loss: Elvira Notari’s Cinematic Realism,” November 6-13, 2023, Harvard Film Archive
Sep 13, 2023 Film Series: “After Alice, Beyond Lois Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project,” Oct 25-Nov 9, 2023, The Museum of Modern Art
Sep 6, 2023 Call for Papers: 18th International Domitor Conference, June 12-15, 2024, Vienna, Austria
Aug 28, 2023 Available now: The Cinema’s First Nasty Women Compilation Soundtrack vol. 1
Aug 7, 2023 “Researching Cinema in the First World War”Workshop, August 25, 2023, Maynooth University
Jul 10, 2023 “O Pioneers!” WFPP contributor Luke McKernan on WFPP
Jul 6, 2023 The Feminist Media Histories (Summer 2023) special issue on Women & the Silent Screen is now out!
Jun 29, 2023 La Cinémathèque française celebrates the 150th anniversary of Alice Guy’s birth, July 1, 2023
Jun 9, 2023 New interactive website: Visualizations of Early Female Filmmakers Careers in Germany
Jun 8, 2023 New from UC Press Open Access: Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett by Victoria Duckett
Jun 1, 2023 San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2023 schedule announced!
May 25, 2023 CFP: Feminist Media Histories, special issue on “Historiographies, Metahistories & Methods”
May 11, 2023 Film Exhibition: “WEIMAR WEIBLICH: Women and Gender Diversity in Weimar Cinema (1918 – 1933),” DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, March 29-November 12, 2023
Apr 22, 2023 Feminist Media Histories special issue on Women and the Silent Screen is now out!
Apr 17, 2023 Stella Dallas (1925) will screen online in the Film Foundation’s Restoration Screening Room, May 8, 2023
Mar 8, 2023 Registration Now Open for Doing Women’s Film & TV History, June 14-16, 2023
Mar 7, 2023 “The Lost Pioneers of the Early Film Era,” RogerEbert.com
Feb 17, 2023 The Early Popular Visual Culture issue on “The Gender of Early Cinema, Part 2” is now out!
Feb 15, 2023 Support Karen Pearlman’s new film Breaking Plates
Feb 13, 2023 The debate around Alice Guy’s first film continues
Feb 1, 2023 Film series: “Marion Davies: Captain of Her Soul,” UCLA Film and Television Archive, February 4-26, 2023
Jan 14, 2023 New publication: Musidora qui êtes-vous? (2022) (Reviewed by Aurore Spiers)
Jan 7, 2023 AFI Catalog Launches “Women They Talk About” Website, Curricular Resources, and Data Findings
Dec 14, 2022 Preservation Conversation: “The Only Woman Animator” – Women at the Dawn of an Industry, Academy Film Museum, December 19, 2022
“Reclaiming a Place in Animation History for a Female Pioneer,” The New York Times, December 13, 2022
Dec 1, 2022 W.I.SS.PE.R (Women’s Impact on Silent Screen PErformance Reloaded)
Nov 29, 2022 New publication: The Woman Who Dared The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials
Nov 21, 2022 New publication: “Exploring the Work of Dorothy Arzner as a Film-Making Teacher in Southern California”
Nov 16, 2022 CFP: 2023 FIAF Congress Symposium, “Women, Cinema, and Film Archives”
Oct 12, 2022 “Doing Digital Film History” conference, Marburg, Germany, November 17-19, 2022
Oct 7, 2022 CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels
Sep 27, 2022 Film series: “Ellen Richter-Die große Unbekannte. Weimar Cinema’s Action Queen,” October 14-November 6, 2022
Sep 25, 2022 CFP: Feminist Media Histories Special Issue on Curating Feminist Film Archives
Sep 18, 2022 CFP: The Domitor Student Essay Award. Deadline: November 18, 2022
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s “A Day of Silents” 2022 Lineup Announced!
Aug 25, 2022 “Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference” Review in Cineaste (Fall 2022)
Aug 18, 2022 Upcoming conference: “Off- and On-Screen The ‘New Woman’ in the Cinema of the Russian Empire,” September 1-3, 2022, University of Basel
Aug 10, 2022 The Internationale Stummfilmtage in Bonn, Germany, runs August 11-21, 2022!
Feminist Media Histories: Speculative Approaches to Media Histories I & II (Spring & Summer 2022)!
Aug 5, 2022 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, October 1-8, 2022!
Jul 29, 2022 Stella Dallas (1925) restoration selected as the pre-opening film to this year’s Venice Film Festival!
Jul 26, 2022 Film series: “Kinuyo Tanaka: A Life in Film,” British Film Institute, August 1-October 1, 2022
Jul 20, 2022 Special issue on “Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film” is now online!
Book Publication: Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood by Hilary A. Hallett
Jul 1, 2022 Doing Women’s Film and Television History is back in person in 2023!
Jun 20, 2022 CFP: Women who write our worlds: Shaping Global Screen Culture
Jun 17, 2022 “Cinema’s First Nasty Women” DVD/Blu-ray Box-set Available for Preorder!
Jun 9, 2022 Germaine Dulac Retrospective, Cinémathèque française, June 16-30, 2022
2022 International Domitor Conference Film Screenings Now Online!
May 21, 2022 Women & the Silent Screen online conference schedule now live!
May 18, 2022 Domitor conference schedule now live!
Apr 24, 2022 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, May 5-11, 2022
Apr 13, 2022 DVD/Blu-ray release: Marion Davies’ Beverly of Graustark (1926) from Undercrank Productions
Apr 3, 2022 CFP: The New Woman in European Silent Cinema: Images, Narratives and Social Discourses
Mar 30, 2022 Film series: “This Woman’s Work: Focus on Screenwriter Anita Loos,” UCLA Film & Television Archive, April 1-23, 2022
Mar 12, 2022 Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, March 18-27, 2022
Mar 8, 2022 Women and the Silent Screen XI – Conference Website & More Info
Oct 3, 2021 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, October 2-9, 2021
Sep 29, 2021 Book release: Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914-1923, edited by Richard Abel
Aug 18, 2021 CFP: 17th Domitor International Conference, Library of Congress, June 9 – 12, 2022
Jun 24, 2021 CFP: Orphans 2022: Counter-Archives
May 30, 2021 Doing Women’s Film and Television History V, July 10-11, 2021 (virtual conference)
May 15, 2021 Register now for Women & Silent Screen Online, June 2-6, 2021
Apr 29, 2021 “Directed by Lois Weber” program coming to the Criterion Channel in May
Apr 2, 2021 New book release: Germaine Dulac’s writings on cinema now in English!
Mar 7, 2021 Cinema’s First Nasty Women online film program, March 8-28, 2021
Mar 3, 2021 Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1915) streams online for free in March
Feb 5, 2021 Feminist Media Histories Vol 7, Issue 3 is now out: Urgent Media and Emergent Art
Feb 3, 2021 Coming to Blu-ray: Two Films by Lois Weber
Jan 27, 2021 Alphaville issue 20: Doing Women’s Film & Television History
Jan 8, 2021 Online film program & discussion, “The Trailblazers of Early Cinema,” February 1, 2021.
Jan 6, 2021 Posting: Two Research Associates, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Dec 18, 2020 Call for Chapters: Women and Historical Moviegoing
Oct 26, 2020 The 16th International Domitor Conference Moves Online This November!
Oct 23, 2020 Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Media Histories on Decolonial Feminisms
Oct 5, 2020 CFP: “Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now.” A Hybrid Conference, July 10-11, 2021
Oct 2, 2020 Book Publication: She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness
Oct 1, 2020 New website: The Winnifred Eaton Archive
Sep 7, 2020 Online film festival: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, October 3-10, 2020
Aug 17, 2020 Reminder: SCMS Women’s Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize – Deadline: September 1, 2020
Il Cinema Ritrovato, August 25-31, 2020
Jul 10, 2020 TCM Presents Women Make Film, Tuesday Evenings, September 1-December 1, 2020
May 29, 2020 Karen Pearlman’s I Want to Make a Film About Women (2019) will screen online as part of the Sydney Film Festival, June 10-21, 2020
May 11, 2020 Kim Tomadjoglou discusses Alice Guy-Blaché and her new DVD set with Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center blog
May 5, 2020 CFP: Feminist Media Histories Special Issue on Latina Media Histories
Apr 30, 2020 Christine Gledhill on Women & the Silent Screen X (May 2019)
Apr 28, 2020 WFPP is profiled in The Montague Reporter!
Apr 20, 2020 Feminist Media Histories – New Issue: Spring 2020, Media and the Environment
Mar 31, 2020 SCMS Women’s Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize
Mar 18, 2020 Cancellation Notice: 2020 Domitor Conference in Paris
Mar 12, 2020 Cancellation Notice: Doing Women’s Film and Television History V
Mar 4, 2020 DVD/Blu-ray Release: Films by Alice Guy Blaché and Julia Crawford Ivers
Feb 28, 2020 Film Series: “The Women Behind Hitchcock,” Film Forum, New York, NY, March 4-19, 2020
Feb 25, 2020 CFP: 3rd International Domitor Graduate Workshop, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Paris June 10-11, 2020
Feb 21, 2020 The Athena Film Festival, Barnard College, New York, NY, February 27-March 1, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 Announcing the 11th Women and the Silent Screen Conference, June 2021!
Feb 10, 2020 The Kansas Silent Film Festival, February 28-29, 2020
Feb 7, 2020 “Rediscovering Hollywood’s Forgotten Women Filmmakers” in Messenger Mountain News
Feb 5, 2020 Episode 3 of You Must Remember This spinoff, Make Me Over, focuses on Marie Dressler!
Jan 22, 2020 “‘Lights, Camera-maids, Action!’: Women Behind the Lens in Early Cinema” in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Jan 16, 2020 CFP: Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture (1900-1950) (edited collection)
Jan 3, 2020 WFPP in the media: Bustle’s “Meet The Women Who Pioneered The Film Industry”
CFP: Feminist Media Histories – Special Issue on Precarious Mobilities
Dec 30, 2019 Film Series: To Save and Project: The 17th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, January 9-20, 2020
Dec 20, 2019 Recent radio broadcast, “The Brazen Women of Silent Film,” is now available online
Dec 3, 2019 “On Mary Manning,” Film Screening at Light Industry in Brooklyn, December 10, 2019
Nov 25, 2019 Spotlight on Bess Meredyth: Screening of The Song of Life (1922), Anthology Film Archives, December 3, 2019
Nov 22, 2019 “Woman with a Movie Camera” Film Program at SFSFF’s Annual A Day of Silents, December 7, 2019
Nov 18, 2019 Join Women and Film History International (WFHI) Today!
Nov 4, 2019 “A Celebration of the Fort Lee Film Commission: Women and the Silent Film Era,” National Arts Club, November 15, 2019
Nov 1, 2019 WFPP in the media: The New Yorker’s “The Women Who Helped Build Hollywood”
Oct 18, 2019 The Women Film Pioneers Project Relaunches!
“The Female Gaze: Rediscovering the Films of Louise Kolm-Fleck,” Vienna International Film Festival, Oct. 24 – Nov. 6, 2019
Oct 14, 2019 Book Publication: Germaine Dulac’s What is Cinema?
Oct 2, 2019 Film Screening: “Mad About Mabel,” New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, October 12, 2019
Sep 23, 2019 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, October 5-12, 2019
Sep 13, 2019 Helen Gardner’s Cleopatra (1912) Airs on September 29 as part of TCM’s Silent Sundays
Sep 9, 2019 New York Times Obituary for Alice Guy Blaché Published
Sep 6, 2019 Book Talk & Event: “Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy,” New York Public Library, Sept. 12, 2019
Book Publication: Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by Susan Potter
Jul 29, 2019 CFP: Domitor Conference, “Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema”
Jul 28, 2019 CFP: Journal of Screenwriting, Special Issue: Female Screenwriters
Jul 26, 2019 Book Talk: Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes, Bryant Park, NYC, August 5, 2019
Jul 1, 2019 CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History V – “Forming Histories/Histories in Formation”
Jun 17, 2019 Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Bologna, Italy, June 22-30, 2019
Jun 3, 2019 Mostly Lost 8, Culpeper, Virginia, June 12-15, 2019
May 17, 2019 CFP: Audience Lost: Minority Women and Spectatorship
May 13, 2019 Lois Weber: Historical Marker Unveiling, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA, June 13, 2019
May 10, 2019 Women and the Silent Screen 10/Eye International Conference 2019 – Sisters, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 25-29, 2019
May 2, 2019 Film Screening: Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Thursday, May 9, 2019
Apr 26, 2019 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, May 1-5, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Opens at New York’s IFC Center on April 26, 2019!
Apr 19, 2019 Denver Silent Film Festival, April 26-28, 2019
Apr 12, 2019 Feminist Media Histories special issue on Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media is now out!
Apr 5, 2019 Women Film Pioneers Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, April 19, 2019
Mar 25, 2019 Toronto Silent Film Festival, April 5-8, 2019
Mar 22, 2019 Film News: Entire Danish silent film heritage to be digitized!
Mar 8, 2019 Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, Bo’ness, Scotland, March 20-24, 2019
Mar 1, 2019 Two-Disc DVD Set Release: The Alice Howell Collection, March 5, 2019
Feb 22, 2019 Film Series: “William Fox Presents: More Restorations and Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation,” MoMA, March 1-26, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 Athena Film Festival, Barnard College, February 28-March 3, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 CFP: The British Silent Film Festival Symposium, April 11-12, 2019
Feb 8, 2019 Kansas Silent Film Festival, Topeka, Kansas, February 22-23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 CFP: Feminist Media Histories special issue on Media and the Environment
Jan 18, 2019 Feminist Media Histories, special issue on Asian Media is now out!
Dec 21, 2018 Film Lecture: Talk by Jane Gaines & Screening, Linwood Dunn Theater, Los Angeles, CA, January 17, 2019
Film Festival: “To Save and Project: The 16th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation,” Museum of Modern Art, January 4–31, 2019
Nov 19, 2018 Film Program: “A Day of Silents,” San Francisco, CA, December 1, 2018
Nov 2, 2018 New Profiles: Fall 2018
Oct 22, 2018 Special issue on “The Actress-Manager and Early Film” in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film is out now!
Oct 16, 2018 Film Screening: “Alice Guy Blaché in America: Shorts from Solax and The Ocean Waif,” University of Chicago, Friday, Nov. 11, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché screens at the New York Film Festival on Sunday, October 7
Sep 24, 2018 CFP: Eye International Conference 2019, “The 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference”
Sep 14, 2018 Apparatus special issue, “Women at the Editing Table: Revising Soviet Film History of the 1920s and 1930s” is out now!
Sep 7, 2018 CFP: “The Visible Woman: On-Screen Presences of Femininity (1895-1920),” 12th International Seminar on the History and Origins of Cinema
Aug 31, 2018 Film Festival: “Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days,” Kinothek Asta Nielsen, Germany, November 2-11
Aug 17, 2018 Film Series: “The Pioneers of Silent Cinema,” Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, Paris, August 29-September 25, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 Film series: “Women of the West,” Anthology Film Archives, August 31-September 16, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 Film Series: “Germaine Dulac,” Film Society of Lincoln Center, August 24-30, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 New Profiles: Spring 2018
Jul 13, 2018 Film screening: “Hardly Quiet: Women of the Silent Film Era,” New York Public Library, August 8, 2018
Jul 2, 2018 “So many of the debates we’re having today were actually settled 100 years ago”: A Conversation with Shelley Stamp
Jun 15, 2018 Film series: “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, July 20-26, 2018
May 24, 2018 Contributor Spotlight: WFPP Interview with Joe Yranski
Apr 13, 2018 CFP: New Approaches to Silent Film Historiography: Technology, Spectatorship and the Archive
Spring 2018 Issue of Feminist Media Studies, “Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies,” Out Now!
Apr 6, 2018 Preliminary Schedule and Registration Information: “Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now and Next”
Apr 2, 2018 New Profiles: March 2018!
Mar 30, 2018 Mostly Lost 7: Registration Information and Call for Material
Mar 16, 2018 CFP: New Histories of Women in the Entertainment Industry
Mar 2, 2018 Book Publication: Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane M. Gaines
Feb 19, 2018 New Profiles & Essays: January-February 2018!
Feb 2, 2018 Campaign to raise funds for Alice Micheaux’s headstone a success!
Jan 17, 2018 DVD/Blu-ray Release: Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) and The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) from Milestone Films!
Dec 18, 2017 Call for Papers: The 2018 British Silent Film Festival Symposium, April 19-20, 2018
Film Screening: “Scandal! Two Films by Lois Weber,” March 9, 2018, University of Chicago
Nov 17, 2017 Film Festival: “Elvira Notari: Kino der Passage,” Frankfurt, Germany – December 14-17, 2017
Oct 30, 2017 New Profiles: October 2017
Oct 27, 2017 Exhibition: “Las hijas de Alice Guy,” ALCINE 47 – Festival de cine de Alcalá de Henares, Nov. 3-26, 2017
CFP: Feminist Media Histories Special Issue on Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media
Oct 18, 2017 A Report on the Recent “Le Giornate del Cinema Muto”
Oct 13, 2017 The Fall 2017 issue of Feminist Media Histories is now live!
Oct 10, 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s “A Day of Silents” Program Announced!
Sep 26, 2017 New WFPP Profiles: Summer 2017
Sep 25, 2017 Call for Papers: “New Directions in Feminist Media Studies”
Sep 11, 2017 Call for Entries: Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History
Aug 29, 2017 CFP: The Actress-Manager and Early Film
CFP: 15th International Domitor Conference, “Provenance and Early Cinema,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, June 13-16, 2018
Aug 18, 2017 CFP: Feminist Media Histories, Special Issue on Asian Media
Jul 27, 2017 “Lois Weber: First Auteur” Film Series at Film Forum, July 30, August 6 & September 16!
Jul 14, 2017 CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots-Then, Now, and Next
Behind the Scenes: A Report on the Recent Women and the Silent Screen IX Conference
Jun 30, 2017 Women and Hollywood’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, Fall 2017
Jun 26, 2017 New WFPP Profiles & Overview Essays: Spring 2017
Jun 16, 2017 Women and the Silent Screen IX, Shanghai, China, June 16-18, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 Film Festival: “Mostly Lost 6: A Film Identification Workshop,” June 15-17, 2017, Library of Congress (Packard Campus), Culpeper, Virginia
May 15, 2017 Blu-ray/DVD Release: Flicker Alley’s Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology
May 1, 2017 Film Festival: The 22nd San Francisco Silent Film Festival, June 1-4, 2017
Apr 28, 2017 Film Screening: Lois Weber’s Sensation Seekers (1927) at MoMA, May 6 & 9, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 Film Series: “Lois Weber: Pioneer Progressive Filmmaker,” April 1-29, 2017, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Book Publication: Women in Silent Cinema: Histories of Fame and Fate by Annette Förster
Mar 17, 2017 Behind the Scenes: WFPP Summer 2016 Research Trip Reports
Jan 18, 2017 New York Feminist Film Week, Anthology Film Archives, March 7-12, 2017
“Women Who Run Hollywood Screening & Panel,” Athena Film Festival, February 11, 2017
Dec 20, 2016 Call for Papers: Feminist Media Histories “Gender and Labor in Media Histories” (due Jan. 15, 2017)
Dec 16, 2016 Recent press about the restoration of Lois Weber’s The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)!
Dec 2, 2016 Lois Weber’s The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) screens at Anthology Film Archives, December 16-18, 2016!
Oct 21, 2016 “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” Kickstarter Campaign
Sep 30, 2016 Film Screening: “Lost Visionaries of the Silent Screen: Highlights from the Women Film Pioneers Project,” November 11, University of Chicago
Call for Papers: Women and the Silent Screen IX: “Histories, Her-stories, and Methods”
Sep 8, 2016 Recent Press Mentions: The Women Film Pioneers Project in the News!
Aug 24, 2016 Restoration: Two films by Lois Weber coming this fall!
Jun 30, 2016 Film Series: “Woman with a Movie Camera,” September 15-28, 2016, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Jun 21, 2016 Call for Papers: 11th Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema: “Presences and Representations of Women in the Early Years of Cinema.”
Apr 28, 2016 Conference: Doing Women’s Film and Television History III: Structures of Feeling, May 18-20, 2016
Apr 11, 2016 Conference: “Transformations I: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools,” April 15-16, 2016, NYU
Jan 20, 2016 “Esther Eng and Other Challenges to Women and World Cinema,” February 4-6, 2016, Columbia University
Sep 23, 2015 Publication: Women & the Silent Screen VII Special Dossier, Screening the Past Issue 40!
Aug 21, 2015 Upcoming Film Restoration: “Mothers of Men” (1917), starring Dorothy Davenport Reid!
Jul 30, 2015 “Dorothy Arzner: A Retrospective” at UCLA Film & Television Archive, July 31-September 18, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 Women & the Silent Screen VIII, University of Pittsburgh, September 17-19, 2015
May 14, 2015 A.C.L.U., Citing Bias Against Women, Wants Inquiry Into Hollywood’s Hiring Practices
Feb 9, 2015 Nell Shipman Documentary Premieres at NYCIFF, Bentonville Film Festival, and more!
Oct 30, 2014 Call for Papers- Women and the Silent Screen VIII 2015
Nov 25, 2013 Women Film Pioneers Project Launched at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City!
Oct 23, 2013 Women Film Pioneers Project in the News!
Sep 25, 2013 Their First Misunderstanding (1911)-Recent Mary Pickford film find!
Aug 21, 2013 Book Publication-Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and Serial Film Craze
Women and the Silent Screen VII Conference, University of Melbourne