Women Film Pioneers Project

🎉 We're so excited to share the schedule for Entr'acte 2026, which will take place online on November 6 & 7! Don't miss this fantastic lineup of speakers. This virtual event is free and open to all (registration required). www.wfhi.org/2026-entracte

Thank you to our speakers and the 70+ attendees! 😭 Next up from @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Entr’acte coming 6-7 November. Watch the WHFHI account for details dropping next week!

Nasty women at the Filmoteca de Catalunya!!! 🎞️🧯😂@nastysilents.bsky.social @wfpproject.bsky.social @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.filmoteca.cat/web/ca/cicle...

Join us online on Friday, October 23 at 12:30pm ET for this cool event w/ @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @garloso.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social, Liz Czach, and Carolina Cappa!

The daily schedule for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is out now! www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...

Reminder: The deadline is one month away (October 21)!

Deadline extended to 9/25! Students, there's still time to share your work!!

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Xinyi Zhao on the career of Japanese writer Osaki Midori wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/osak...

“The story of how Marion & Kate Corbaley tricked the studio executives into paying Lorna Moon $7,500, while reviving Marie Dressler’s career, should be a legend in the history of female networking in the motion picture business” —from the @wfpproject.bsky.social wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Fantastic review of Karen Pearlman's film BREAKING PLATES, which headlines our curated program BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY!! Thanks Simon Foster for helping spread the gospel of Léontine, Laura Bayley, Texas Guinan, and our nasty women! 🎞⁉🎶 screenspace.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

Happy Saturday #SilentFilm world! 🌇 It's only a NEW PODCAST ALERT! Our newest release features the very wonderful @katesac.bsky.social - film curator, scholar, and editor based in Amsterdam. 🎧️ Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hbk... 🖥️ Read blog/transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/h...

The Call for Papers for the 13th International Women and the Silent Screen Conference (2027) is now live on our website! La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web. www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...

Are you coming to @cineredis.bsky.social? At 14:05 on Saturday 25 July I will be introducing QUEEN KELLY at the Watershed. Afterwards, around 4pm, I will be selling/signing copies of my book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY and raising a glass to the whole endeavour. I hope to see you there!

📣 Call for Papers - Special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture Theme: Digital Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and the Study of Silent Cinema Guest editors: Adelheid Hefberger and Mario Slugan 🗓️ Deadlines for abstracts: Monday, 3 August 2026

There are still two months left to submit to our Student Project Award!

“The story of how Marion & Kate Corbaley tricked the studio executives into paying Lorna Moon $7,500, while reviving Marie Dressler’s career, should be a legend in the history of female networking in the motion picture business” —from the @wfpproject.bsky.social wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

archivalspaces.com/2026/07/10/4... My Archival Spaces blog reviews an excellent new book about the Weimar film actress Ellen Richter.

📣 Save the Date for Entr'acte 2026 on November 6 & 7! More information will be shared in the coming months!

No one will be surprised about my picks for the 5 Best Films of 1913! Thanks @ettletodd.bsky.social for the fun conversation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @shelleystamp.bsky.social about WHAT 80 MILLION WOMEN WANT for The Complete Catalog: 1913. Links in quoted post!

It was such a pleasure to chat all things #SilentFilm w/Stewart Lee on the @goldensilentscast.bsky.social podcast, which I highly recommend!! ❤️🎞️🎶 Topics include @nastysilents.bsky.social, the Denver Silent Film Fest, QUEEN KELLY, @wfpproject.bsky.social, galore! 🎊 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro's "Aesthetics of Development: Modern Industries in the Ehlers Sisters’ Mexican Films (1919-1922)" is now FREE for a limited time! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Very excited to read Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro’s essay (CURRENTLY OPEN ACCESS!) in new issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social. I first learned about Adriana and Dolores Ehlers from Julia Tuñón’s profile on @wfpproject.bsky.social! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

WFHI is pleased to announce the inaugural Women and Film History International Student Project Award. Sponsored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. Visit our website for more info: www.wfhi.org/student-proj... Apply by September 15, 2026

Queen Kelly is coming to the UK! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/05/29/c...

New online resource: "Searching for Lotte Reiniger" From our partners at @davif.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy comes a visual analysis of film historical metadata by Sarah-Mai Dang (@sarahmaidang.bsky.social) & Christian Laesser. lotte-reiniger.oabooks.de

Women built early Hollywood from the ground up. The story of how they were written out of it is just as important as the story of what they created. Who were Hattie Tabourne, Elizabeth McGaffey, Julia Heron, and Viola Lawrence? 1/4

Mabel Normand tries to break into Hollywood in THE EXTRA GIRL

THE CINEMA OF ALICE GUY BLACHE, co-edited by Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social and me, is now officially under contract with University of Illinois Press! 🥳 Thank you to our amazing contributors! #aliceguyblache #aliceguy #womensfilmhistory #feministfilmhistoriography #wfpp

We're so back!! Check out the thread below for full programme & registration details for our Rethinking Weimar Cinema conference, happening 17-19 June in Oxford!

Save the date for the next edition of our Women and the Silent Screen conference!

Boundless thanks to the inspirational @wfpproject.bsky.social for sharing my new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY in their news pages wfpp.columbia.edu/2026/03/31/n...

QUEEN KELLY comes to Blu-ray, 16 June from @kinolorber.com and @milestonefilms.bsky.social – the new reconstructions of this wild and ambitious romance, in all its glory! kinolorber.com/product/quee...

Brush up your Swanson and Stroheim with our Instant Expert guide to QUEEN KELLY silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/24/i...

Happy International Women's Day! WFHI is committed to fostering and supporting scholarly, archival, and creative work on women's global film history. 👋 Not yet a member of WFHI? Join today: www.wfhi.org/join 🙏 If you became a member since Spring 2025, you're all set. Thank you for your support!

Very pleased to be doing this upcoming online research seminar for University of Reading's Film, Theatre & TV department: Wednesday 25 February, 14.00 - 15.30, "Muriel Box, 'The Truth About Women', and the truth about women directors" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muriel-box...

In “Doing More with Less: Informed Speculation as Method,” Allyson Nadia Field embraces the forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film/media history while at the same time urging rigorous and responsible scholarship Download for free and hold it close— doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Hey NYC nasty women!!! We're overjoyed to announce that Karen Pearlman's brilliant archival doc BREAKING PLATES will screen in NYC at Cinema Village on March 15 in the 2026 Socially Relevant Film Festival. 🍽️🌪️📽️ *Please spread the word and don't miss the film! ❤️* www.ratedsrfilms.org/the-schedule...

Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉 @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...

Great piece by WFPP contributor @laurah.bsky.social! playgirl.com/entertainmen...

Congrats to the indomitable @aurspiers.bsky.social on official publication of ARCHIVING THE PAST. Go to @ucpress.bsky.social to order your copy! @wfhinetwork.bsky.social is proud to be hosting virtual members-only book talk w/ Aurore later this month. To join WFHI... www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

🎬 Wien: Vom 16. Januar bis 04. Februar 2026 zeigen das Filmarchiv Austria und das Filmmuseum Düsseldorf die Retrospektive “First Action Heroes”. Spielort ist das Metro Kinokulturhaus: www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuelles/ar... #stummfilmmagazin #filmmuseumdüsseldorf #filmarchivaustria #wien

Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social

It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies 🐍 & smashing the patriarchy! 🔨) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🎞️🎊 !! online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

Check out former WFHI steering committee member Canan Balan's new book "Torn is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul." www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BalanT...

New to WFPP: Dagmar Brunow on Swedish writer and screenwriter Elin Wägner!

Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed. necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...

New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️ www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f... Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!