Invisible Women presents Cinemasters: Polly Platt

13 Jun

The Witches of Eastwick (1987) — From *The Witches of Eastwick* (1987)

The feminist film collective Invisible Women launches a new season focused on the production designer, producer and screenwriter Polly Platt.

The season is available to watch at Glasgow Film Theatre, from the 5th to the 29th June, 2022

Invisible Women, based between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is a collective committed to ‘reinserting women into the history of cinema’, through a wide range of screenings and events. Their new season is dedicated to Polly Platt, a woman who through four decades of behind the scenes work helped create some of the most iconic films of the twentieth century. Heard of The Witches of Eastwick, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment? Platt collaborated with directors such as George Miller and James L. Brooks in getting some of these gold-standard films out into the world.

The team at Invisible Women are clear on their direction in choosing Polly Platt as the focal point of this new selection of screenings:

“The season aims to take Platt out of the shadow of the famous men she worked with and make an argument for a more expansive understanding of the work of ‘invisible women’ within a historically sexist film industry.”

Catch the new season at Glasgow Film Theatre this June. For more information on screenings, tickets, accessibility and Polly Platt herself, check out the @invisiblewomen_archives linktree.