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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. [2] She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, [3] as well as the first woman to direct a film.
1995 Antonia's Line; director: Marleen Gorris; Academy Award for best foreign film, the first time awarded to a female film director. 1995 Strange Days; director: Kathryn Bigelow; 1996 Fire; director: Deepa Mehta; 1996 Unstrung Heroes; director: Diane Keaton; 1996 White Men Are Cracking Up; director: Ngozi Onwurah
[1] [2] With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, from 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. [3] [4] [5] She was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s.
EXCLUSIVE: The filmmakers behind acclaimed Cannes 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché are re-teaming on a narrative biopic about their subject, the little-known but ...
Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) Women Make Movies; The Alice Initiative; Film Fatales; FemaleDirectors.com (films on Netflix and Amazon) The Director List: Women Directors at Work at Cinefemme; Filmmakers at South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) (archive) Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University ...
First Time Female Director is a 2023 American film directed, written, produced by and starring Chelsea Peretti.It co-stars Blake Anderson, Kate Berlant, Megan Mullally, Benito Skinner, Megan Stalter, Jak Knight, Max Greenfield, and Amy Poehler.
Pioneer filmmakers Josefina Molina, Helena Cortesina, Rosario Pi were among the first women film directors of Spain. María Forteza was the first woman director of a sound picture in 1934 with the short film documentary Mallorca. Ana Mariscal was a prolific actress in the 1940s and 1950s. In the early 1950s she became a producer and shortly ...
Alice Guy-Blaché is considered to be the first ever female film director, as well as the first director of a fiction film. Blaché directed her first film in 1896, La Fée aux Choux and founded Solax Studios in 1910. Over her lifetime, "she directed between 40 to 50 films and supervised nearly 300 other productions".