Founders

Selina Robertson

Selina Robertson set up Club des Femmes in 2007 with Sarah Wood. She works as a film programmer, researcher and writer. In 2023 she completed a practice based PhD at Birkbeck on the cultural archives of feminist film programming and curating in 1980s London. Her research was conducted in the archive of the Rio Cinema. She is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck.

Sarah Wood

Sarah Wood is an artist filmmaker and curator.

Collective

So Mayer

So Mayer is a writer activist & educator. So’s books include A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love and the poetry collections (O) The Private Parts of Girls and Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (ed.) So is a co-founder of Raising Films a campaign and community for parents and carers in the film industry.

Alex Thiele

Alex Thiele is a creative producer based in London. https://65wildingfilms.com/.

Ania Ostrowska

Ania Ostrowska is a Polish-British intersectional feminist with her fingers in too many veggie pies and a new-born Glaswegian.

Jenny Clarke

Film curator & short film watcher & script reader & part-time stitcher. @ajennyclarke

Helen De Witt

Helen is a film curator, lecturer and writer committed to artists’ film, documentary and independent cinema. She is delighted to be the newest member of Club Des Femmes. @diamantecroc

Image: She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978) Dir. Vivienne Dick. Image courtesy of the artist and LUX