Suffragette film festival screening and Q&A at Regent Street Cinema

I love the fact that I had an opportunity to view this film in the Regent Street Cinema especially because the cinema has just been reopened to the public this year on the 6th of May. Prior to the cinema being reopened this year it was rebuilt in an art deco style by architect Tim Ronalds then it was closed and used for lectures by the university of Westminster in 1980. The renovation of the cinema was 61 million pounds and it took three years to finish. Regent street cinema is well known as the "Birth place of British cinema" the reason for this is because Regent street cinema was the first place to show a film in the UK, the Lumiere brothers' Cinematographe, which toured the world in 1896. In my opinion the interior design doesn't appear to be very modern but it is quite detailed and the colour attracts attention. During the Q&A session I learnt that there were people of colour in the suffrage movement which I found interesting as I didn't know this before. I also found out the screen writers challenges with writing the film and the way in which she came up with the final piece and the amount of redo's that had to be done to get the perfect one. Abi Morgan explained the different perspectives that she wrote the story from but still based on the suffrage movement. For example when she stated that she tried to write the story based on Merly Streeps character but she chose not to because she wanted to writes about it from a working class perspective as they faced different hardships to the upper class women in the movement.  Hardships such as going to prison, being physically abused by police to then being judge because you are trying to help make a difference. In terms of the production of the film I was quite surprised to find out that the production of this film was female dominated for example the director, producer, screen writer and even the behind the scene jobs where women. And I think that compliment the film even more because it show the fight wasn't in vein and women now have the same equal rights as men.