Hoping to emulate the progression of Southgate’s team 😊… For now, I’m into the QFs 🙌🏻

If you want to know how me and the 16yo are getting along this week while it’s just the two of us - on Monday I wanted us to go to our local rep cinema to see The Beast. We stayed in, ate chicken Kyivs and watched 21 Jump Street.

Crying (maybe with laughter…)

Hot debate tonight about whether Deloris Jordan and Kathe Dassler’s two line exchange in Air means it, despite all appearances, passes the Bechdel Test.

As a massive pedant, can I point out that none of your jokes work because it wan’t caused by Microsoft. #Crowdstrike

Having my own #Olympics weekend. Reached this stage of the screenplay. Finally got my 5km under 25 min. 💪🏻

Luckily, we’ve totally solved blind loyalty politics so have no further need for this book… 😳

Whenever I see one of those ‘no one ever talks about X‘ articles I think, yes we do. ALL THE TIME. You just weren’t listening because it wasn’t happening to you. Can I get a commssion to write a think piece about that. No one ever talks about how we were always talking about it?

Had a lovely flurry of YES among all the usual NO this week. Can’t talk about one of them yet but our Women X Festival selection - my first BIFA qualifying festival as a director - feels really special. Thanks Rianne Pictures ✨ WXFF24 Sep 20th-22nd 🌸 😊 juliemayhew.co.uk/for-mum-is-bif…

Get in. This draft is definitely landing. Off the back of its Writers’ Lab nod, THE LONG SPRINT has made the Shore Scripts QF list. UK producers looking for a sports thriller with 2x nuanced 40-something female leads, say hi…

Girls On Film are excited to see lots of women-directed films at the BFI London Film Festival - here is a thread of some of the films to look out for. #LFF

Been quietly building up my personal essay writing muscle for a while now, so this feels really good… alisonwearing.com/2024-longlist

Has the Manic Street Preachers / ABBA crossover always been there, or am I only just tuning into it?

now, it's not often I ask you to do stuff for me... please retweet if a. you believe in fairies b. you support second time female filmmakers and c. you support British cinema. Timestalker is released in cinemas in the UK & Ireland on 11th October 💜❤️🩷🌭☸️🐦🪓

Addison Rae’s VMA bra has triggered my breast milk expressing PTSD. Send cabbage leaves.

Twice this week I’ve heard the word plethora pronounced pl-THOR-a. Have I been saying it wrong all these years?!

The plague of today: an expert diagnosis.

The couple behind me in this cafe are speaking French, which is beautifully unintelligible to me - until they must resort to inserting an English phrase. So far - ‘the heavens opened’, ‘donkey sanctuary’ and ‘ploughman’s lunch’.