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Women make films and shape filmmaking.
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- Green, Pamela B.
- Description
- Biography of pioneering film writer, producer, and director Alice Guy-Blaché, who made her first film in 1896, ran France's Gaumont Studio, established her own American film production company in 1910, and innnovated in her films for nearly 30 years. Includes archival interviews with Guy-Blaché and clips from her hundreds of works, most of which have been lost.
- Year
- 2019
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- Dvořák, Cordelia
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- Biography of the French filmmaker, activist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Marceline Loridan-Ivens filmed when she was nearly 90.
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- 2019
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- McClain, Cady
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- Focuses on film directors and mentors Sarah Gavron, Lesli Linka Glatter, Li Lu, and Naima Ramos-Chapman and the roles of collaboration, storytelling, and women's voices in changing society through film. Includes interviews with Lizzie Borden, Deborah Del Prete, Deborah Riley Draper, Sarah Kernochan, Kimberly Peirce, Bethany Rooney, and John Wells.
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- 2019
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- Stephens, Courtney
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- Filmmaker Courtney Stephens assembles travelogues taken by women from the 1920s to the 1950s into an examination of early filmmaking and women's viewpoints.
- Year
- 2021
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- Garver, Rob
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- Biography of the influential American film critic Pauline Kael. Includes archival footage; readings of Kael's published and private writings by Sarah Jessica Parker; and interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Molly Haskell, Camille Paglia, David O. Russell, and Quentin Tarantino.
- Year
- 2019
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- Wright, April
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- History from 1914 to the present with interviews of stuntwomen.
- Year
- 2020
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- Castle, Jane
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- Cinematographer Jane Castle examines the life of her mother, the noted Australian director Lilias Fraser, who faced a traumatic childhood, a damaging marriage, and alcoholism.
- Year
- 2021
- Director
- Maher, Brigid
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- Profile of Sally Dixon, who founded the film program at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1970, screened and curated experimental films, supported filmmakers, and was instrumental in the movement to see film as art.
- Year
- 2023
- Director
- Jaramillo, Mercedes Gaviria
- Description
- Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo returns to Colombia to help her father, director Víctor Gaviria, on his film The Animal's Wife and constructs a video diary about their relationship and the place of women in filmmaking.
- Year
- 2020
- Director
- Kuperberg, Clara; Kuperberg, Julia
- Description
- Features an overall history of women working in the early film industry and individual documentaries on Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, and Mary Pickford by filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg.
- Year
- 2025
