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After the Swinging Sixties in the west, women began to feature front and centre of large-budget movies, often in a more serious tone.. An early example was the 1970 film The Andromeda Strain which showed Dr Ruth Leavitt as one of several scientists investigating a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is a non-profit founded in 2006 and based out of New York City, United States, dedicated to supporting work by and about women in the film industry. [60] The AWFJ is composed of 76 professional female movie critics , journalist , and feature writers working in print , broadcast and online media .
Filmmakers Sara Crow, David Rafailedes and Lara Palmqvist are the SFFILM’s 2024 Sloan Science in Cinema Fellows. In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, these three creatives will be ...
Picture a Scientist is a 2020 documentary highlighting gender inequality in science. The movie tells the stories of several prominent female researchers, and brings to light the barriers they encountered, including cases of discrimination and harassment .
The role of women's films was discussed at the Women's Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970, [108] and groups such as the Feminist Film Workers collective (1970s and 1980s), Sydney Women"s Film Group (SWFG, 1972–), Melbourne Women's Film Group (1973–), Reel Women (1979 to 1983 in Melbourne), and Women's Film Unit (Sydney and Melbourne ...
Natalie Panek, mechanical engineer and space scientist; Elizabeth Pattey, agricultural meteorologist; Heather Pringle, writer on archaeology; Kathleen I. Pritchard, oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists; Line Rochefort, Canadian ecologist; Francine Saillant (born 1953), anthropologist, writer
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The Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University (wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu) is one of the best. Through efforts like this it is now well known that many women played central roles in the founding of the film industry."—Betsy A. McLane [ 44 ]