Sally Potter is one of the UK's most innovative and original filmmakers. Her first feature, The Gold Diggers, is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper, it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.

Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between money and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic beauty trapped in fleeting memories of a frozen landscape, on a quest to recover the truth about her own identity. Celeste kidnaps Ruby and starts asking questions that lead to them making links between the star system, economics, and a cinematic riddle that contains them both. Together they begin to unravel the truth about the search for gold and the secrets of personal transformation and freedom.

The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson is to be released on DVD for the first time on 28th December 2009 at the RRP of £19.99, alongside a retrospective at BFI Southbank that runs throughout December. Special features on the DVD include:

• Five early works by Sally Potter: Thriller (1979, 32 mins); The London Story (1986, 16 mins); Jerk (1969, 2 mins); Play (1970, 5 mins); hors d'oeuvres (1971, 10 mins);
• Fully illustrated booklet featuring newly commissioned essays by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sophie Mayer and Jacky Lansley;
• Downloadable PDF files featuring letters, script extracts and more.