Women’s Independent Collective (w.in.c) Films was founded in 2009 by Abbe Fletcher, Sabela Pernas Soto, Petra Niskanen and Claudia Vasquez Ramirez, w.in.c films are a collective of filmmakers from the MA film making at Kingston School of Art.
The collective emphasises non-hierarchical filmmaking practices. W.in.c films traveled to Cuba in 2009 and made The road to Gibara/El camino hacia Gibara (2010, w.in.c films) which premiered at Cine Pobre the following year. Since then we have made films in Medellín in Colombia, Santiago de Compostela in Galicia and London and Hampshire in the UK. Our proposed w.in.c workshops were selected as Finland’s entry for the Charlemagne Youth Prize in 2011.
El hacia camino Gibara/The Road to Gibara has been featured at the following film festivals: MuFest, Spain 2011, Film Directing for Women Film Festival, London 2010, The First International Film and Video Festival for Children and Youth in Merida, Venezuela, 2010 and Cine Pobre 8, Gibara Cuba, 2010.
In 2019 to mark ten years of the collective we opened up to new members and now invite new members once a year. We are currently working with Ben Judd and the Stanley Picker Gallery on The Origin.
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photograph by Sabela Pernas Soto