Woman with an Editing Bench (2016)

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds. soviet union, biography, based on true story, filmmaking, russian history, censorship, film editor, woman director, stalinism, 1930s, women in film, soviet union history, film censorship, short film, women's history, ussr, film history, female filmmaker, australian