Sheffield Film Co-op: Beginning, Being and Ending

Part 2 of a brief history of the SFC based on an interview with founding member Christine Bellamy by Angela Martin Like other women filmmakers working within the Women’s Liberation Movement, the four Sheffield women who had contributed to a series of radio programmes on women’s issues (Jenny Woodley, Christine Bellamy, Gill Booth and Barbara Fowkes), …

Becoming Sheffield Film Co-op

Part 1 of a brief history of the SFC based on an interview with founding member Christine Bellamy by Angela Martin Sheffield Film Co-op did not begin its life fully formed as a filmmaking group. It grew out of the new/second women’s liberation movement of the early 70s, which was variously engaging in raising consciousness about …