Reflecting on her own filmmaking practice, Reed Hillman weights the challenges against the benefits of autoethnographic feminist work.
Rosie Reed Hillman
Rosie Reed Hillman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist. Rosie’s first filmCailleach (2014) was developed through Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap Scheme. The film won 6 festival awards including Best Short at San Francisco International Film Festival and screened at over 30 festivals internationally. Cailleach is a selection on the Criterion Channel’s FILMSTRUCK streaming site, a series of the world’s most important classic and contemporary films. Rosie was a participant on the competitive European Social Documentary (ESODOC) program in 2017 where she developed Bearing (2021), an autobiographical doc exploring early motherhood. Bearing premiered at Ethnofest Athens 2021 and screened at the RAI Film Festival 2023.
Rosie is lecturer in filmmaking at Manchester School of Art, MMU and has a PhD based in feminist ethnographic filmmaking. She is currently working on her first feature film. www.rosiereedhillman.com
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