Cinenova was founded in 1991 following the merger of two feminist film and video distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women. Each was formed in the early 1980s in response to the lack of recognition of women in the history of the moving image. Both organisations, although initially self-organised and unfunded, aimed to provide the means to support the production and distribution of women’s work in this area, and played critical roles in the creation of an independent and radical media.
Cinenova currently distributes over 500 titles that include experimental film, narrative feature films, artists’ film and video, documentary and educational videos made from the 1920s to the present. Cinenova holds a large collection of paper materials, books and posters related to works it distributes, and the history and politics of film and video production. The thematics in the work at Cinenova include oppositional histories, postcolonial struggles, domestic and care work, representation of gender and sexuality, and importantly, the relations and alliances between these different struggles.
Cinenova Working Group:
Melissa Castagnetto
Emma Hedditch
Karolin Meunier
Charlotte Procter
Ash Reid
Irene Revell
Sandra Schaefer
Kerstin Schroedinger
Louise Shelley
Marina Vishmidt
Cinenova Film and Video Makers:
Joyce Warshow
Annie Wright
Pratibha Parmar
Annette Kennerley
Andrea Weiss
Bev Zalcock
Barbara Hammer
Jenni Olson
Roz Mortimer
Darrelyn Gunzberg
Miranda Bowen
Ruth Novaczeck
Suse Bohse
Louise Lockwood
Fanny Jacobsen
Ju Gosling
Tran T Kim Trang
Monica Baker
Aimee Jackson
Sarah Pucill
Rachel Ara
Tinge Krishnan
Lucy Thane
Alix Mumford
Carol Morley
Mandrika Rupa
Kadet Kuhne
Sophie Constantinou
Nuala Harvey
Lana Lin
Sara Chambers
Karol Kamya
Leeds Animation Workshop
Anna Turville
Jo Smith
Mayyasa Al-Malazi
Amal Bedjaoui
Vicky Smith
Esther T
Lis Rhodes
Nisha Ganatra
Gabriella Romano
Jamika Ajalon
Eva Weber
Sarah Turner
Abigail Child
Leah Gilliam
Marquise Lepage
Rita Smith
Lily Gupta
Tina Keane
Vicky Funari
Utako Koguchi
Cairo Cannon
Col Cruise
Stacey Folies
Kim Longinotto
Sonali Fernando
Katherine Fry
Colette Cullen
Paula Crickard
Georgina Corzine
Dyke TV
Charline Boudreau
Helena Goldwater
Lorna Boschman
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Anne Chamberlain
Noski Deville
Rif Sharif
Alice B Brave
Catherine Saalfield
Julie Tolentino
Su Friederich
Ukele Productions
Tanya Mahboob Syed
Sandra Lahire
Tanya Ury
Rosemary Toner
Charlie Murphy
Myra Paci
Evelyn Ficarra
Heidi Tikka
Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe
Ali Farelly
Marion Reichert
Samantha Moore
Deva Parmier
Clio David
Stephane Jaggers
Sarah Myland
Mitra Tabrizian
Nancy Duiguid
Roberta Cantow
Michelle Citron
Jano Williams
Claudia Von Alemann
Lois Weber
Lizzie Borden
Hans Schierl
Dietmar Schipek
Ursula Pumer
Valie Export
Heiny Srour
Yvonne Rainer
Robina Rose
Alexandra Von Grote
Jacqueline Audry
Susan Lambert
Olga Prebrazhenskaya
Susan Stein
Ramona Metcalfe
Helen Grace
Erika Addis
Annabel Nicolson
Jeanette Iljon
Babette Mangolte
Maya Deren
Germaine Dulac
Alice Guy
Felicity Field
Ann Barefoot
Debra Robinson
Victoria Mappleback
Sistren Theatre Collective
Ayoka Chenzira
Amy Harrison
Sara Bowman
Aphra Video
Second Sight
Debra Levine
Leeds Aids Advice
Linda Flint
Hildur Gladwin
Jane Harris
Yvonne Baginsky
Maya Brandt
Jacky Garstin
Delyse Hawkins
Red Flannel Films
Disabled Women's Theatre Project
Christine Booth
A Douglas
K Hagget
S Green
A Mannion
D Taylor
Chloe Doutre Rousell
Katie Barlow
Harriet McKern
Martha Rosler
Margot Nash
Tran T. Kim-Trang
Witch
Monika Baker
Helen Doyle
Nicole Giguere
Jo Pearson
Jacqui Duckworth
Monica Pellizzari
Karen Borger
Jennie Russell
Verena Rudolph
Lindy Summers
Martine Thoquenne
Merilee Bennett
Joanna Davis
Mary Pat Leece
Lynne Conroy
Jeni Thornley
Sabina Wynn
Ellie O'Sullivan
Veronica Martel
Kay Mander
Carole Kostanich
Jaqueline Woodson
Viki Dunn
Jan Oxenburg
Caroline Sheldon
Donna Grey
Cheryl Farthing
Melanie Chait
Abigail Norman
Heramedia
Zoe Leonard
Joy Chamberlain
Kate Goodnight
Jo Smith
P Gladwin
I Mack-Nataf
B Fionda
Carol Ashley
Kathy Clark
Karen Everett
D Chasnoff
K Klausner
Megan McMurchy
Melanie Nelson
Leone Knight
Emma Black
Clara Van Gool
Anne Marie Booresboom
Women in Sync
Juliet Miller
Vera Productions
Christine Pearce
BarbaraTrent
Litza Jansz
Julia Lesage
Mitzi Goldman
Trish Fitzsimmons
Fiona Macintosh
Mai Masri
Jean Chamoun
Gold Oruh
Joyce Seroke
Betty Wolpert
Kathleen Shannon
Ginny Stikerman
Lucy Phoenix
Lezli-Ann Barrett
Marjut Rimminen
Judith Barry
Vera Neubauer
Nicola Percy
Jo Spence
Rachel Finkelstein
Gabrielle Bown
Karen Ingham
Jean Kilbourne
Sarah Rose Bell
Zeinabu Irene Davis
Martine Lumbroso
Monique Renault
Cheryl Edwards
Judith Keller
Megan Siler
Pam Walton
Susan Marenco
Jayne Parker
Kate Windibank
El Glinoer
Cathy Cook
Kathy Daymond
Annie Sprinkle
Maria Beatty
A Florin
C Wilkinson
Lisa Hsia
Lai Ngan Walsh
Gurinda Chadha
Ngozi Onwurah
Wendy Williamson
Susannah Lopez
A Carney
B Phillips
Tracey Moffatt
Sokhna Dieng
Saundra Sharp
Julie Dash
Joanna Grant
Jazvinder Phull
Lorette Deschamps
Nina Sabnai
Edna Politi
IL Angelico
Harriet Wistrich
Jill Daniels
Ronna Bloom
Diedre Fishel
Jewish Women in London
Cine Mujer
Wimmin's Film Collective
Athina Tsoulis
Judith Jackson
Jabeen Siddique
Sophie Bissonette
Margot Oliver
Marta Rodriguez
Jorge Silva
Sheffield Film Co-op
Prue Waller
Cynthia Connop
Jill Craigie
Elizabeth Barrett
Sally Potter
Tish Barry
Deborah Hall
Women and The Law Collective
Gillian Lacey
Rosie Gibson
Claire Barwell
Christine Roche
Nina Ward
Gillian Coote
Christine Vachon
Alexandra Anderson
Anne Cottringer
War On Want
Cinestra Pictures
Irina Dunn
S Fonseca
S Gillie
V Grut
J Holland
Boadicea Films
Caroline Goldie
Steel Bank Co-op
Serena Everill
Chris Brown
Esther Ronay
Mary Kelly
Mary Capps
Jan Dennis
Heather Powell
M Lazarus
R Wunderlich
Jeanne Le Page
Meri Weingarten
Devika Ponnambalam
Patricia Diaz
Renate Stendhal
Maj Skadegaard
Janni Perton
Ludmilla Andrews
Amanda Holiday
Laleen Jayamanne
Sayer Frey
Lucinda Broadbent
Midi Onodera
Leslie Asako Gladsj
Laurie Colbert
Dominique Cardona
Laurel Swenson
Miriam Ryle