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Handbags &... Hardware
The festive season is over, and the festival season is beginning. One of the first events to take place in this year's calendar is Handbags and Hardware; a mini-festival of women's film, video and digital art, organised by Cinenova
Fighting Women
Mel Taylor and Kim Longinotto on women and documentary filmmaking
Living on Air
A Trilogy of Films by Sandra Lahire. Interview and review by Gill Addison
CINENOVA
Mel Taylor uncovers some of the history of women's film and video making distribution, and discusses the continuing need for specialised promotion of women's work

Surpassing Philosophy:
the Life and Work of Joyce Wieland 1931-1998
Helen de Witt pays tribute to the Canadian artist and avant garde filmmaker

Not forgetting Shirley Clarke
Bev Zalcock pays homage to a remarkable woman and a crucial filmmaker: Shirley Clarke (1919-1997)

Interview with Jo Ann Kaplan
"Deren didn't consider herself a woman filmmaker, she was essentially a filmmaker who happened to be a woman, and that is an old argument. I kind of feel that way." Interview by Marco Zee-Jotti