Myles directed the Edinburgh International Film Festival from 1973 to 1980, where she was the first woman to helm a major international film festival. Her feminist programming was pioneering and in 1972 she, along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, held The Women’s Event, a space for discussions and screenings within the wider EIFF programme. 

A champion of emerging and enduring talent, she screened Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles three times over her tenure. During a period of industry and creative change, she screened early works by George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and others, and would go on to coin the term “The Movie Brats” in her book of the same name co-written with Michael Pye.

The film is at once relaxed and thrilling, with Cousins positioned as friend rather than interviewer, and Myles’s remarkable career described in her own words. This light touch compliments the film’s dreamlike interplay of candid stills and present-day Myles, revealing the depth and breadth of one woman’s work.

There will be Q&A with Mark Cousins after the film.

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