New award-winning Ronin release – I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN
29 July 2024
Karen Pearlman's multi-award-winning short film, I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN is now available for screenings and downloads from Ronin, as well as on the DVD celebrating the work of this extraordinary filmmaker, AN EDITOR'S ANTHOLOGY.
WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN is a speculative documentary love letter to Russian constructivist women. The new Soviet Union of the 1920s championed equality for women and great innovation in the creative arts. Until it didn't. Looking back at that time, history remembers the men who were celebrated and then shut down. But women were there, too, and they were influential, powerful and brilliant.
I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN gazes in to a creative communal kitchen and watches these women transform it into a workshop, then a stage set, then a film, all the while juggling noisy men and the wolves of history. It imagines what the revolutionary women artists of the 1920s said, what they did, and what they might have created had it not been for Stalin's suppression.
This short film is part of Dr Karen Pearlman's ongoing research, interrogating standard film histories and bringing to light the significant and overlooked contributions made by women editors.
VIEW TRAILER HERE: vimeo.com/953880111
For further details and orders see: www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/18585.html
Written, Directed & Edited by Karen Pearlman
Produced by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman
Starring: Victoria Haralabidou
Featuring: Liliya May, Inga Romantsova, Violette Ayad, Ever Sliter, Nadia Zwecker,
Tug Dumbly and Richard James Allen
Dancers: Jay Bailey, Clémence Dugué, Clarissa Harrison, Olivia Kingston, Billie Moffat
Cinematography by Meg White
Production Design by Valentina Iastrebova
Costume Design by Valentina Serebrennikova
Visual effects by Pavel Trotsenko
Sound Editors: Leah Katz, Andy Wright
Music by Caitlin Yeo
A Physical TV Company Production
WINNER: Best Documentary - ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
WINNER: Best Director - CinefestOz, Western Australia, 2020 (Section: Inaugural Short Film Awards)
WINNER: Creative Achievement Award - BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2020 (Section: Short Film Awards)
WINNER: Best Direction of a Documentary Short Subject - AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS' GUILD AWARDS, 2020
WINNER: Silver Medal, Short Film (for Meg White) - AUSTRALIAN CINEMATOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, NSW Branch, 2020
WINNER: Best Documentary - History
WINNER: Best Docudrama
ATOM (Australian teachers of Media) AWARDS, 2020
WINNER: Best Short: Pride Parade - SCAD SAVANNAH FESTIVAL, Georgia, USA, 2020. Section: Shorts Spotlight.
WINNER: Best Doco Short - SYDNEY WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
WINNER: Best Short Non-Fiction Film Award - MULTICULTURAL FILM FESTIVAL, Melbourne, 2021
WINNER: Best Director - WIFT V-FEST Online Women's Film Festival, Brisbane 2021
WINNER: Jury's Citation Award, THOMAS EDISON BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL, 2021
WINNER: Special Jury Mention - Short - SEBASTOPOL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2021
WINNER: Award of Excellence Special Mention: Documentary Short - THE IMPACT DOC AWARDS, La Jolla, USA 2021
WINNER: Catherine Martin Costume Design for a short film, music video or web series award, AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD AWARDS, 2021
WINNER: Festival Awards for Outstanding Achievement: Short Film - NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2021
WINNER: Best Director, Best Production - FIRST WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2022
WINNER: Women in Focus - Best Film
WINNER: Women in Focus - Best Documentary
Paris In Love Film Festival, France, 2023
WINNER: Inspiring Change Short Film Competition,
Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival, 2023