Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH) is more than just a special issue though.

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It is also a year-long, online, training and mentoring programme for critics working on women horror filmmakers in non-anglophone countries, with a particular focus on filmmakers from the Global Majority. It is the first of its kind in the world. The project was run by Alison Peirse, with masterclasses, individual tutorials and workshops delivered by Catherine Grant, Miriam Kent, Evelyn Kreutzer, Neepa Majumdar, Dayna McLeod and Tanya Vital.

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Each contributor was taken on with the assumption that they did not have any experience in videographic work, nor any technical knowledge, and would be working with free software. The programme took place online, taught out of Germany, the UK, the USA and Canada. Some contributors on the programme were already horror scholars, while others were new to horror, but had expertise in national cinemas. Many did not work inside the academy at all, and instead ran film festivals, worked as designers, or freelanced as filmmakers or film critics. Of the academics in the programme, the majority were PhD students or early career. Contributors were based across the world, including East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and Australia. 

The Call for Proposals was released February 2022. Contributors began the programme in July 2022. A showcase of the contributors videographic training exercises can be found on Vimeo. In November 2022, a number of the contributors discussed their experiences of finding and accessing case studies at a roundtable at the De-Westernising Horror Cinema conference at Kings College London. In April 2023, contributors submitted the final versions of their video essays and written statements.