In two weeks’ time, on Saturday 18 May, I will be watching as many films directed by women I can in the space of 24 hours to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society.

Let me back track and explain a little bit. I’m a writer over at Jumpcut Online and as a team we’ve decided to spend the month of May each doing different film or gaming-related things to raise money for different charities that mean a lot to us. You can find out more about what each person is doing here.

The charity I’m raising money for is Alzheimer’s Society as it’s a disease that’s affected my family a lot. My granddad died of vascular dementia and my gran is currently living with Alzheimer’s and my mum is her primary carer. The disease affects everyone in different ways so I want to raise money so research can be done and hopefully treatments can be made.

As you may have noticed if you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll have seen I have been taking part in the #52FilmsbyWomen challenge for the past four years now. The challenge is to make more of an effort to watch films that are directed by women as generally speaking they don’t get as much of a budget or promotion compared to films made by men. As I enjoy discovering new female directors and their films, I thought my way to raise money for charity would be to have 24 hours dedicated to women filmmakers and their films.

I’ve compiled a list of 65 different films directed by women, all of them are films I’ve not seen before, from Netflix, Amazon Prime, the BFI Player and my own DVD collection that will be the films people can choose from. Because that’s the fun part for everyone, not just me. You can choose what I watch! From that list I’ll be choosing films at random (probably with the help of a random number generator) to put in Twitter polls for people then to choose what I watch – so make sure you follow me on Twitter. But if you donate money you can pick what I watch from that list! So, if there’s a favourite film of yours there, or even one you know is terrible and you want me to watch it, if you donate you can make me watch it.

It would be incredible if you could donate and support me in this crazy movie-filled adventure! Any amount of money would be greatly appreciated and if you could share the word that would be wonderful. All the important links are below.

My JustGiving page where there’s more information on my chosen charity and how to donate.
My Letterboxd list of films directed by women that I could end up watching.
My Twitter where I’ll be tweeting my thoughts on what I’m watching and the polls where people can choose what I watch.