Independent Miss Craigie

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Hayley Atwell

Voice of young Jill Craigie

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Mimi Haddon

Jill Craigie

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Cornelius Clarke

John Davis

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Steven Connery

Jeffrey Dell

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Paul White

J Arthur Rank

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Bryan Hands

Michael Foot

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Catherine Humphrys

Sylvia Pankhurst

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Gareth Wildig

Welsh Man

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Lizzie Thynne
Production	Producer	Lizzie Thynne
	Associate Producer	Hollie Price Adele Tulli
	Production Assistant	Chiara Cannata
Camera	Camera Operator	Pascale Neuschäfer Malgorzata Maria Pronko
Editing	Editor	Vera Simmonds
Art	Art Direction	Erin Greenwell Jessica Griffin
Sound	Sound	Al Green Nikoline Gjoertz
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