Independent Miss Craigie (2020)
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.
Director: Lizzie Thynne
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Mimi Haddon as Jill Craigie |
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Cornelius Clarke as John Davis |
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Steven Connery as Jeffrey Dell |
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Paul White as J Arthur Rank |
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Bryan Hands as Michael Foot |
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Catherine Humphrys as Sylvia Pankhurst |
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Gareth Wildig as Welsh Man |
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Jill Craigie as Herself (Archive Footage) |
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Julie Hamilton as Herself |
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Michael Foot as Himself (Archive Footage) |
| Directing | Lizzie Thynne | Director |
| Production | Lizzie Thynne | Producer |
| Production | Hollie Price | Associate Producer |
| Production | Adele Tulli | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Pascale Neuschäfer | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Vera Simmonds | Editor |
| Camera | Malgorzata Maria Pronko | Camera Operator |
| Art | Erin Greenwell | Art Direction |
| Art | Jessica Griffin | Art Direction |
| Sound | Nikoline Gjoertz | Sound |
| Production | Chiara Cannata | Production Assistant |
| Sound | Alan Green | Sound |
