Newham Community Cinema presents an online month-long celebration of LGBT+ culture on film with curated conversations and special guests brought to you free by Newham Council and in partnership with Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF).

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About the Films

SHORT - SHE IS JUICED: SLICE FOUR - SARAH JANE MOON

Lois Norman | UK | 2018 | Documentary | 16mins (Captions Available)

A portrait of the queer portraiture of New Zealand/British artist Sarah Jane Moon. Sarah uses her brush to bring London’s queer community into the limelight and onto the canvas.

FEATURE - PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

Céline Sciamma | France (Subtitled) | 15 | 2020 | Drama | 120mins

Romance and art entwine in this sumptuous new masterpiece from Céline Sciamma ('Tomboy', 'Girlhood') - winner of Best Screenplay at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the 2020 BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language.

Set in late 18th century France, painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is commissioned by an affluent countess to paint the wedding portrait of her sheltered but headstrong daughter Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), in the hope it will find her a wealthy husband.

While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed to complete the portrait in secret, observing Héloïse by day and painting her by night. However, as the two women grow closer, their intimacy and attraction begins to blossom, paving the way for a simmering, star-crossed romance.

A heartbreaking period piece told with a distinctly modern feminist energy, 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is the first female-directed film to win the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

★★★★★ "Sublime filmmaking makes this love story soar" - Katie Goh, Little White Lies

★★★★★ Dave Calhoun, Time Out

★★★★★ Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro

★★★★★ "Real love may be fleeting, but as Portrait of a Lady on Fire explains, art and memory are immortal" - Clarisee Loughrey, The Independent

★★★★★ "Demonstrates a new mastery of classical style" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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About the Q&A/Panel

Nuala O'Sullivan (Host) - Founder of Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF) – a celebration of older women in front of and behind the camera. She has written plays for theatre and has been a series writer for the BBC Radio 4 drama Brief Lives. She launched Women Over 50 Film Festival as a positive and practical response to this lack of visibility so that older women in film would have a platform dedicated to them and their work.

Sarah Jane Moon (Guest) - SHE IS JUICED Featured Artist

Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her work explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation as well as interrogating formal painterly concerns.

She has exhibited with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery among others. She has been a recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture and in 2020 was made a candidate for membership to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her portraiture has been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper*, Studio International and House & Garden Magazine.

In 2020 Moon exhibited in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition and the New English Art Club Annual Exhibition among others.

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Running Order

6pm: Film Starts (Suggested viewing time).

Participants will receive a link to watch the films after registering that will be available for 24hrs before the Q&A/Panel.

8pm: Live Q&A Panel starts with a host and special guests (Fixed viewing time).

Participants will receive a link to watch the Q&A/Panel after registering and before the live event along with the links for the virtual screenings.

9pm: Event Ends (Book your next event now! Limited spaces!)

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LADIES WHO LOVE film season is part of Newham's LGBT+ History Month (Feb 1-28, 2021) celebrations that feature a range of free online events throughout February.

Take part live or catch-up on demand!

Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) champions and showcases the work of older women on screen and behind the camera with an annual short film festival and year-round events and film screenings. WOFFF believes inclusive spaces to watch films together and conversations between older and younger people can make us all feel less isolated and feel more connected. Everyone - all ages, all genders - is welcome at WOFFF.