Women Film Pioneers Project

The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a collaborative digital publication that advances research on female filmmakers in the silent era by showcasing the hundreds of women who worked behind-the-scenes as directors, producers, editors, and more. Always expanding, WFPP features career profiles, longer overview essays on national cinemas and occupations, still and moving images, and archival and bibliographic resource materials.

The goals of WFPP are to jumpstart historical research on the work of women filmmakers from the early years of cinema, ending with the coming of sound; to facilitate a cross-national connection between researchers; to reconfigure world film knowledge by foregrounding an undocumented phenomenon: these women worked in many capacities.

Published by Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, WFPP features essays written by established film scholars and archivists and covers pioneers from the United States and Latin America, as well as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, The United Kingdom, and former Yugoslavia.

https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/about/

The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a freely accessible, collaborative online database that showcases the hundreds of women who worked behind-the-scenes in the silent film industry as directors, producers, editors, and more