Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Some Women of Marrakech is an ethnographic documentary that explores the everyday lives, social roles, and personal experiences of Muslim women living in Marrakech, Morocco. It was made by an all-female film crew, which was unusual for its time, allowing access to women’s private, domestic, and social spaces not typically filmed by male crews.

A documentary investigating the events leading up to a fertility ceremony of the Maasai women in Loita, Kenya.

The documentary focused on the daily lives of the African-Caribbean community who lived on the notorious Broadwater Farm Estate, in Tottenham, North London. In 1985 riots erupted on the estate in response to the death of local resident, mother Cynthia Jarrett, after the police raided her home.

The filmmaker returns to the Maasai village in Kenya that has been the subject of most of her life's film work. Intercut with scenes from her earlier films produced over 20 years, this film explores the changes the Maasai have been forced to make. Her focus is again on the women of this pastoral village as they discuss their socially and politically inferior status in relation to myth and the practicalities of everyday life. Her women friends’ stories are woven into a lyrical, moving, complex and personal film on the nature of memory and of dreams.

Some Women of Marrakech is an ethnographic documentary that explores the everyday lives, social roles, and personal experiences of Muslim women living in Marrakech, Morocco. It was made by an all-female film crew, which was unusual for its time, allowing access to women’s private, domestic, and social spaces not typically filmed by male crews.

A documentary investigating the events leading up to a fertility ceremony of the Maasai women in Loita, Kenya.

A documentary investigating the events leading up to a fertility ceremony of the Maasai women in Loita, Kenya.

A documentary investigating the events leading up to a fertility ceremony of the Maasai women in Loita, Kenya.

The documentary focused on the daily lives of the African-Caribbean community who lived on the notorious Broadwater Farm Estate, in Tottenham, North London. In 1985 riots erupted on the estate in response to the death of local resident, mother Cynthia Jarrett, after the police raided her home.

The filmmaker returns to the Maasai village in Kenya that has been the subject of most of her life's film work. Intercut with scenes from her earlier films produced over 20 years, this film explores the changes the Maasai have been forced to make. Her focus is again on the women of this pastoral village as they discuss their socially and politically inferior status in relation to myth and the practicalities of everyday life. Her women friends’ stories are woven into a lyrical, moving, complex and personal film on the nature of memory and of dreams.