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Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin; 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola; 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May; 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, (1926), the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). 1931 film Girls in Uniform by Leontine Sagan is one of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. The film is about a 14-year-old girl who falls in love with her female teacher at an all-girls ...
The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, [2] [3] the American Film Institute [4] and the British Film Institute, [5] a feature film runs for more than 40 minutes, while the Screen Actors Guild asserts that a feature's running time is 60 minutes or longer.
Gómez is known for her first and final feature-length film De Cierta Manera (released posthumously, 1977). Gómez was a revolutionary filmmaker, concerned with representing the Afro-Cuban community, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society. [1]
Vendôme Pictures has acquired the remake rights to produce a scripted adaptation of ”A Fire Within,” an award-winning human rights documentary about Ethiopian refugee Edgegayehu “Edge” Taye.
First feature film made for network television: See How They Run. Richard Burton's Hamlet was the first stageplay recorded on tape (Electronovision) and given a theatrical release. [82] Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! is the first feature-length animated film based on a TV series and the first theatrical feature produced by Hanna-Barbera.
A Woman of Paris is a feature-length American silent film starring Edna Purviance that debuted in 1923. A United Artists production, the film was an atypical drama film for its creator; written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin. [2] [3] It is also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate. [4] [5]
Guy-Blaché is considered by some to have been the first female filmmaker, [35] and from 1896 to 1920, she directed over 1,000 films, some 150 of which survive, and 22 of which are feature-length. She was one of the first women, along with Lois Weber, to manage and own her own studio: The Solax Company. Few of her films survive in an easily ...