Fox interviewed Shelton for MAI in 2019. Here, he reflects on both her tragic passing and the wonderful and lasting legacy she leaves behind.
Neil Fox
Neil Fox is a Senior Lecturer for BA (Hons) Film at Falmouth University’s School of Film & Television where he also convenes the Sound/Image Cinema Lab. His debut feature film as writer/producer, ‘Wilderness’ (2017) is due for release by Sparky Pictures on digital platforms in Autumn 2020. He is the co-founder and co-host of the BFI, MUBI & Curzon sponsored film podcast The Cinematologists. He writes about film for The Quietus, Beneficial Shock, Little White Lies, The Big Picture and Directors Notes amongst other places. He is writing Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2022and lives by the sea with his wife Beth, their daughter Tessa and dog Bailey.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey