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The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. Always expanding, WFPP publishes original scholarship on women who worked all around the world as directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, and more.
WFPP features short career profiles on single individuals, longer thematic peer-reviewed overview essays, and shorter multimedia posts, all by film scholars, film curators, archivists, and historians. In our published profiles, we cover women who worked in national cinemas across six of the seven continents.
As of November 2022, there are 313 women represented by our published pioneer profiles.
Jessica Brannon-Wranosky of Texas A&M University-Commerce, Nancy Baker of Sam Houston State University, and Allison Faber of Texas A&M University discuss women’s political engagement in Texas. Filmed at Texas A&M University-Commerce on October 18, 2016, these historians examine over one hundred years of women actively involved in Texas politics.
